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I’m Andrew. I’ve been making bagels at home for about ten years, and I got tired of guessing. So I test, take notes, and build tools that turn the guesswork into something you can repeat. Recipes, free calculators, a newsletter and my gear picks are all below.
Start with one of these. Full recipes, with video, on Gronda. Free for 30 days.
36-Hour Cold-Fermented Bagels
My main bagel recipe, with the long cold ferment. Gronda recipeTwo-Day New York-Inspired Bagels
A slower, deeper-flavored New York style. Gronda recipeOvernight Bagels with Poolish
Start tonight, bake in the morning. Gronda recipeConfetti Bagels
A fun one for a crowd.Free tools and printable guides. No login, open them on your phone in the kitchen.
Bagel Math Toolkit
Hydration, salt, yeast, malt and batch scaling in one calculator.
Open the calculator FreeDoughLogic Lite
Build a bagel dough from your flour and your water.
Build a dough FreeKnead to Know Lite
Pick what is wrong with your bagels and see the likely causes.
Find the cause Free PDFCheat sheets
Baker’s math, flour, water and malt syrup on one printable page each.
Get the guidesI Knead to Eat. The data and reasoning behind my bagels, written up properly.
Everyone Is Wrong About Bagels. Including Me.
Ten years, hundreds of recipes, and a refusal to keep eating mediocre bagels. I Knead to EatI Knead to Eat (Bagels)
Why I started this and what’s in it for you. I Knead to EatI Audited 35 Bagel Recipes So You Don’t Have To
The “top search result” is statistical chaos. Here is the math that actually matters.My five picks if you only buy a few things.
The Bagel Boards I Use
For loading and boiling. Use my link for 10% off. AmazonThe Book That Made Me a Better Baker
The one I would hand to any new baker. AmazonMy Oven Setup for Bagels
Exactly how I set up my home oven. AmazonThe Sheet Pans Everyone Asks About
The pans in my videos. AmazonThe One Tool I Can’t Live Without
If I could only keep one.Affiliate links. I may earn a commission at no cost to you.
The Pro tools use your recipe and your process, so the answers get sharper and your work is saved.
DoughLogic Pro
Build a dough that works. Water and mixing temperatures, a fermentation and baking timeline, batch scaling and saved recipes.
See what is inside ProKnead to Know Pro
Know why your bagels failed, and what to change next batch. Ranked causes, a next-batch plan, and a check-in after the bake.
See what is insidePro opens Black Friday, November 27. Join the waitlist and you hear first, with the launch offer.
New bagel videos on Instagram, most weeks.
The Independent Bagel Project is a community-built map of independent bagel makers: shops, pop-ups, home bakers and wholesalers. Every listing is reviewed, and placement can’t be bought.
