🥨 Auntie Anne’s Pretzel Nuggets #

🧾 Ingredients #

🧑‍🍳 Instructions #

1. Combine all and mix to full gluten development
2. Press dough into 13″×9″×2″ pan
3. Turn out onto parchment, covered
4. Proof 30 min @ 70° F
5. Cut into 16 strips, each 9 in long (achieved by halving 4 times).
6. Submerge dough strips alkaline bath for ≈ 10 s
7. Drain on wire mesh for ≈ 10 s
8. Transfer dough strip to parchment-lined sheet pan (handling should naturally elongate dough to fit a half size sheet pan lengthwise)
9. Apply salt
10. Cut into 1 in pieces
11. Bake 8 min @ 500° F
12. Separate nuggets
13. Combine nuggets and melted butter in bowl, toss until coated

📝 Notes #

• To make cinnamon sugar nuggets, toss with cinnamon sugar

🧪 Alkaline Bath #

Baking Soda / Sodium bicarbonate

• Sodium Bicarbonate is a weak base, and its pH remains in the mildly alkaline range even at higher concentrations
• Generally safe handling
• Stainless steel preferred container for this, but glass or plastic will work

Caustic Soda / Sodium hydroxide

• Sodium Hydroxide is a strong base. Even low concentrations yield very high pH
• 3.5% NaOH is caustic and can cause chemical burns. Use gloves, goggles
• Use stainless steel to contain the solution
• Glass is good alternative