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Posted: 7/6/13 at 11:21am

I have a question for people who eat bagels. Do you toast your bagel?

I maintain that the point of a bagel is the hard exterior and the spongy interior. Toasting it ruins the spongy interior and bagels shouldn't be toasted.

What say you?

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Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 11:32am

It depends on the bagel... But I always prefer toasted. Especially if I'm eating with chilled cream cheese. That's the best.

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 11:38am

I love a warm bagel and cold cream cheese, or just melted butter. When I walk by the bagel stores on my way to work, if I am lucky enough to pass when a new batch come out of the oven I will get one of those. If they have already cooled, I will have them toast it for me.

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 11:52am

I believe it is possible to toast a bagel so that most of the interior remains spongy. You have to do it on a light setting. This gives the bagel enough heat so that it can melt your butter a little.

However, you can lose track of it if you are using a toaster oven and off fixing your hair or straining your juice and then over-toast, which can give the entire bagel a sort of crouton consistency. Not desirable.

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Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 11:55am

Fresh bagels - do not toast.

out of the freezer-toast

Namo - if you take an unsliced bagel, and bake at 300 f instead of toasting, you will get a scrumptious crispy outside and soft inside.

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Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:04pm

I like them toasted only with cream cheese and jelly.

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:24pm

If I am making a sandwich, I prefer the bagel a little warm. Otherwise, I don't toast them if I just have butter.

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:34pm

Places that suggest you toast your bagel are selling you stale bagels. A bagel should be warm- from the oven.

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:43pm

There you are with your utopian visions again.

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:54pm

I toast my bagels. Like Namo said, you just keep the toaster on a light setting.

#11

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:04pm

toasting doesn't compare with a nice fresh bagel.

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#12

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:12pm

Jane you are so right! When I see they are pulling them out of the oven, it is like I won the lottery!

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#13

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:29pm

I microwave my bagels. Fresh from the oven is always best, but when I have leftover bagels at home, I put one (unsliced) in the microwave for 30 seconds. I also don't own a toaster. And I hate melted cream cheese.

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:33pm

ahhrealmonsters, melted cream cheese was always why I didn't like bagels fresh out of the oven. The cream cheese would melt down the sides of the bagel.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#15

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:33pm

glad you agree, SNAFU!

I found that microwaving any kind of bread turns it totally rubbery. ew.

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#16

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:38pm

Now I want a bagel! Off to the place in DUMBO!

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#17

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:44pm

lightly toasted with butter first to melt and absorb the heat a little so the cream cheese won't melt when I put it on top of the butter...finished with a sprinkle of sea salt!

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#18

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Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:44pm

YOU'RE GOING OUTSIDE IN THIS HEAT???

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#19

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:44pm

Goth, that is why you don't put the cream cheese ON the bagel (for fear of melting). Instead, you dip the bagel into the cream cheese - assuming it's in a small cup or bowl of some sort. I almost always ask for mine "on the side" to accomplish this. It may sound strange to do that, but it is how you avoid that melted cream cheese which I also detest.

#20

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 1:54pm

A bagel, lightly toasted with butter is one of my favorite things in the world.

#21

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 2:01pm

Jane, I have to, have a WICKED UK Tour to finish by Thursday! Luckily the bagel shop is on the way.

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#22

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 2:52pm

I dip my cream cheese, too! So little melt, so much yum.

#23

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 2:57pm

Here's a question - who here has had a flagel? they are the very large, very flattened out bagels.

I love them!

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#24

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 3:03pm

is it like a bialy, Jane?

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#25

Bagel Eaters

Posted: 7/6/13 at 3:11pm

I agree with Joe, Jane and Snaf. Anyway, not to be a NY snob or anything, but there are hardly any bagels made today that even come close to the "real" bagels of the prior decades. I think anyone who desires an authentic back to the past bagel (Jewish style), with old décor and everything, must trek up to BARNEY GRENNGRASS, at 89th st and Amsterdam. I mourn the loss of not living around the corner from this place anymore...Perfect bagel with cream cheese, highest quality lox, and raw onion. Nothing could be better, except their scrambled eggs, onions and lox!! Oh, Janey!!!

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