BA Bake Club: Homemade Bagels
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
January is bleak, but this month’s Bake Club recipe is bound to put a smile on your face! Hosts Jesse Szewczyk and Shilpa Uskokovic dive into the world of bagels. Jesse talks us through the tips and tricks of how to make the perfect bagel from the comfort of your own kitchen. “Bagels are like this blank canvas,” says Jesse, “Where the yeast and the wheat are the flavor…and the toppings, obviously.”
Plus, Melissa Weller from Bub’s Bakery in New York City drops by the clubhouse. Melissa is a James Beard nominee and author of two beautiful books, A Good Bake and Very Good Bread. She discusses her love of bagels and how her past life as a chemical engineer helped her hone her craft as a recipe developer. Melissa also tackles a tricky listener question on how to make gluten-free bagels.
We’d love to hear from you! Send your questions to BA Bake Club! Find us on Substack or send us a voice memo to bakeclub@bonappetit.com
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| 0:12.7 | What is your typical bagel order, Jesse? |
| 0:15.0 | My dream bagel order. I live in New York, so you gotta keep price in mine, would be a bagel with cream cheese locks tomatoes. |
| 0:22.0 | And maybe that's it. |
| 0:23.8 | Oh. |
| 0:24.3 | But that locks in New York. |
| 0:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.4 | That's going to be like a $20 bagel. |
| 0:28.4 | What about you? |
| 0:29.9 | Scallium cream cheese on an everything bagel and then tomatoes and bacon. |
| 0:37.6 | That sounds nice. Yeah. The bacon's crazy,. That sounds nice. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.0 | The bacon's crazy, but it sounds nice. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Shilpa Oskokovic. |
| 0:48.8 | And I'm Jesse Subject. |
| 0:50.1 | We're both senior test kitchen editors at Bon Appetit. |
| 0:53.0 | And this is BA Bake Club. |
| 1:00.0 | Bake Club is Bon Appetit's book club, but it's for baking. |
| 1:04.5 | We're creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet. |
| 1:08.5 | Every month we publish a recipe on Bon Appetit.com that introduces a baking concept that we |
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