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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
Richie:
A bagel tip. Here's a tip that has been around for years that I heard from a friend many years ago. My son, who works in the hotel management also verified this works as it has been been used in some of the better hotels.
After taking a bagel out of the freezer, put in a mocrowave oven with a cup of water for two minutes in the "defrost" setting.
Cut the bagel and put in back in the microwave for two minutes in the "defrost" mode.
The water in the cup will mist and go into the bagel giving it soft and baked quality. It will seem like it just came out of the bakery oven.
I'm no great chef, (microwave man), and I bow to other's superiority when it comes to cooking but I found this method to work when reheating pizza, pasta and anything that will taste better as it will taste more like when it was originally cooked.
P.S. - I remember when I put bread in the microwave and after it came out. If a let it sit for a while, it became like a brick.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try. Although 4 minutes seems a long time for a bagel, but I'll experiment with that.
My mom used to "refresh" a leftover portion of italian bread from a night or two before, by putting it in tin foil; sprinkling some water in the tin foil, loosely close the tin foil into a bag and bake in the oven for a few minutes. It made it soft and warm again with that just baked texture like you describe in your instructions for frozen bagels.