NYC: Bagel Baking Class with Award-Winning Baker (Midtown) NYC: Midtown Hands-On Bagel Baking Class
ID: GYG460285-823548
Category:
Country: United States
Duration:
02:00 hours
Description
Roll, boil, and bake your own authentic New York bagels. Led by an award-winning baker, you’ll learn time-honored techniques, explore the bagel’s rich history, and enjoy your freshly baked creations.
Step into a working New York City bagel shop for a hands-on baking experience at the heart of the city's bagel culture.
Your experience begins with a warm welcome and casual icebreaker to get to know your fellow bagel enthusiasts. Then, an award-winning baker will guide you through the classic rope-and-loop bagel rolling technique—a skill you’ll quickly put to use as you roll at least six of your own bagels from scratch.
Next, you'll watch a dough-making demonstration that reveals the building blocks of every great bagel, then learn how boiling and seeding give the New York bagel its iconic texture and taste—doing each step yourself with guidance from your instructor.
Between stages of dough development, you'll go behind the scenes of an operating bagel shop producing around 10,000 bagels a day—seeing commercial bagel-making up close while your instructor walks you through the bagel's history, from its Polish origins to the rise of the Bagel Bakers' Union and the modern New York bagel era.
The experience wraps with a group tasting of your freshly baked bagels alongside gourmet spreads, smoked fish, and classic accompaniments—plus a light-hearted bagel trivia quiz to cap things off. You'll head home with at least 6 bagels, the recipe, and everything you need to make them again.
Highlights
- Master the traditional methods of rolling, boiling, seeding, and baking bagels
- Learn from award-winning baker in a Times Square bagel shop
- Discover the fascinating history of the bagel, from 17th-century Poland to today
- Enjoy your fresh bagels with gourmet spreads, smoked fish, and classic toppings.
- Take home at least 6 bagels, plus the recipe and skills to recreate them at home
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Enter Bagel Market and head upstairs to the mezzanine where the class begins.
INCLUDED
- 2-hour hands-on bagel-baking class
- Instruction from an award-winning baker
- All ingredients and equipment provided
- Fresh bagels with gourmet spreads and smoked fish
- Complimentary soft drinks, beer, and wine
- Bagels to take home (at least 6 per person)
- Bagel history storytelling throughout the class
- Access to online course with recipes and step-by-step videos to continue baking at home
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
