Posted on 03/11/2021 10:10:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
NYC bagel mavens are boiling mad and ready to throw down some dough. The cause of their outrage? A recent New York Times article claiming that “the best bagels are in California.”
“I am personally peeved. If California wants to go head-to-head with me, I am ready,” said Brooklyn-raised bagel-man Scot Rossillo, 55, owner of Park Slope’s the Bagel Store.
Rossillo says the Big Apple’s bagel superiority goes beyond New York’s famously soft water, which weakens gluten and increases chewiness.
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Doughnuts are the best bagels
A lot of California bakeries steam their bagels rather than boil them. It gives them a different taste and texture. I’ve never tried one but I know a lot of people who have and they still think the East Coast method is better.
I make bagels for my wife and myself every Sunday. I dip hers in sesame Seeds and Poppy seeds and I dip mine in whatever is left over from hers plus sea salt, so they are more of a combination bagel/pretzel.
Not a chance in hades cali has better bagels. Having lived in Cali and NYC the best bagel and lox is at Sarges Deli in midtown east. Their smoked whitefish is worth committing violence to get it before it sells out and they do in a daily basis.
Bagels, shamygels. How about the two worst governors, and both are going down. Bagels will endure....
Leave the fish out. Its a bagel only throwdown!
I’ve had plenty of New York bagels, I’ve never seen what the hooplaa was all about. None of them are anything to write home about.
Who gives a $&it? Both states are bastions of communism and should be abandoned as lost with no hope for recovery. Bagels have NO nutritional value and are loaded with carbs, make you fat and are tasteless unless you smother them in butter and cream cheese.
Oh. And no real man wears red rimmed glasses and a ridiculous looking shirt like that.
Montreal has the best bagels.
“I’ve had plenty of New York bagels...”
You may have had plenty of the wrong New bagels. I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York in the late 50’s through 1975. Real Jewish bagels are dense an delicious not like those round doughy globs of bread that pass for bagels.
Never been to california. But if there is a contest between the biggest a-holes... I guess I’d have to bet that the scum on the west is simply trying copy the scum on the east.
Old school early 80s manhattanite
H&H
There is no substitute
I’ve lived in “Tri-State area”, and in Southern California.
I’ve had many bagels in both areas.
There was a bakery on Sunrise Highway, on the line between Sayville and Bohemia, on Long Island, in Suffolk County, 10 minutes from the Ronkonkoma LIRR train station, that had, in my estimation, the best bagels!! And yes, they offered a breakfast bagel with EGG, CHEESE AND SAUSAGE!!
Believe it or not, the best bagel I ever had was in Montreal. Dense, crusty but not heavy, very much a NY style and the cream cheese was perfect. It would not have been a good sandwich bagel, but it was great.
I’d love to eat them again, but now we all know what carbs do to humans, so those days are over.
In other news....
You cannot go to the store and pick out your bagel, cause Covid.
Gov. Nipplering sent folks sick with Covid to spread the disease to folks with compromised immune systems.
And, the “politicans” approved $1,900,000,000,000 to pay off their lackeys
Nobody, not NY not CA, makes the bagel as it was originally done in, say, 1965. It’s far too expensive to do so. Back then there were only 3 or 4 commercial bakers serving the entire NY metro area who had the equipment and economy of scale to profitably make them. Since they were so good mom and pop shops started popping up and the decline of the bagel to the sad shadow we “enjoy” today began. The big guys could afford to follow the CRAFT of baking. Mom and pop were in the BUSINESS of baking and scale and competition forced them to dumb down the process.
When I was a kid bagels were smaller heavier, the color of mahogany and had a high gloss shine. I’d kill for one of those today...
I’ll give them second best. Denser and more chewy the old Jewish part of Month has some of the best in the city and the king of that area is. Côte St-Luc Bagel Kosher I’m a well travelled independently funded person 6 of 7 continent’s and over a hundred countries so far my goal is 7 of 7 and every country on earth.
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