So I have always maintained that bagels are delicious and basically all you need to survive. Nutrition be damned. A poppy seed bagel is possibly the work of god. So I have embarked on the difficult journey of finding a way to make bagels.

Luckily, we live in 2010 and Google Search is amazing. I instantly found one.

About an hour later, I had on my baking tray, two delicious bagels.

Except they weren’t delicious. They were ok. The texture on the outside was nice and they looked right, but I think I messed up the yeast part. The packet didn’t say I had to activate the yeast (literally said you can mix into dry ingredients), but apparently I did anyway (bastards). Going to try instant yeast or maybe baking powder for the Beta version.