New Yorkers experience diverse bagel qualities, with Utopia Bagels exemplifying tradition and quality through hand-rolled, kettle-boiled techniques. Jeremy Jacobowitz offers insights into top bagel spots, emphasizing key characteristics of a perfect bagel, such as texture, crust, and flavor. His standards reveal the struggle outside NYC for bagel perfection. Utopia Bagels, in particular, has been successfully baking since 1981 in a vintage carousel oven, maintaining its recipes for an authentic bagel experience.
To me, the perfect NYC bagel has that nice crust and then the perfect chew throughout! I don't know why, but outside of NYC, everyone seems to struggle with this.
A truly great bagel should still be good even after it's cooled to room temperature.
Utopia Bagels is committed to tradition. Its bagels are hand-rolled and kettle-boiled, and the recipes have stayed the same over the years.
At its original location in Whitestone, Queens, the bagels are baked in a 1947 carousel oven.
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