I’ve been wanting to try to make homemade bagels for awhile now, so I gave it a go this morning with this recipe, mostly chosen for its expedience. For a first go and a simple recipe, they actually are pretty good - very yeasty tasting (not surprising) and rather pale, but not bad. Still, they weren’t the hefty bread product that I associate with bagels, so I’ll be looking for a better recipe for the second try (I want to do quiche and bagels for our movie night next week.)

Total cost for this batch, for 5 medium sized bagels? 20 cents. Total time was an hour, mostly hands off (a couple minutes to initially mix the dough, a couple minutes to form the bagels, 5 minutes to boil them). 20 cents and 10 minutes of active time for 5 bagels? Not bad.