I have done these so you don’t have to. Do not, under any circumstances, thaw a bagel in hot water. I tried it once as a “hack.” It became a soggy, sad sponge that tasted like diluted yeast and regret.
냉동베이글을 식감좋게 해동하는 방법을 찾은 것 같은데...(결론)/How to defrost frozen bagels
Do not thaw it in the refrigerator for less than eight hours. Half-thawed bagels are the devil. They look normal on the outside but are still ice-cold rocks in the center. Biting into one is like getting a brain freeze at the exact moment you bite down on a hard pebble.
And never throw a frozen bagel directly into a deep fryer. Why would you? I don’t know. But I did. It exploded. The bagel became a puffy, greasy balloon that deflated in a puff of oil smoke. My smoke alarm still judges me.
