Amazing Homemade Hamburger Buns Recipe (Video) (2024)

FAQs

What makes the best burger bun? ›

The ideal soft burger bun should be pillowy, squishy, and tender, with a tight but soft crumb and a distinct sweetness. It should hold up nicely to the burger's juices, but should never be tough or cottony. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you don't want a burger that disintegrates half way through your meal.

Avoid adding too much extra flour to the dough.

Your instinct might be to add extra flour; however, any extra flour will create a denser, tougher bun instead of the light, fluffy, brioche-style bun we want.

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To keep your burger buns fresh, store them in air-tight containers at room temperature. Avoid letting any moisture creep in to avoid them from getting soggy and mouldy. The air-tight containers will ensure that the buns don't dry out and retain their original moisture.

Add a little bit of milk to your egg yolk before brushing over the bread/before baking. The milk helps keep the buns soft and the yolk gives them a good colour.

Brioche buns are light and fluffy and are full of eggs and butter, making them extra delicious. They are the perfect bun for burgers as they can hold up to burgers piled high with toppings without falling apart or getting too soggy.

The bun flour should have good viscoelastic properties and a high gas retention capacity. A high protein content, soft gluten – is ideal. While the strong gluten flour tends to be a disadvantage. To deal with this you have to work with special proteases to achieve a soft, supple dough structure.

89 g weight per piece. A pre-sliced premium burger bun produced using a unique recipe to give a firmer texture ad traditional sourdough flavour. Topped with semolina and finished with a kaiser cut. Approximately 4.7 inches in diameter.

Shape and Rise

Each dough ball will weigh right around 3 ounces, give or take. Space them a little bit apart in the baking pan and let them rise until very puffy and the sides are touching. Don't skimp on the rising! If they don't rise long enough, they won't reach their fluff-fluffy potential.

Too much flour, or not the right kind, could be to blame. Dough made only from flour with a high or even average amount of protein (like bread flour or all-purpose flour) can become tough from overmixing. Protein gives bread structure in the form of gluten—the more you mix and move the dough, the more gluten you get.

How can I make my bread fluffier instead of dense? ›

Potato Flakes or Potato Water

Starch helps the dough by trapping the gas from the yeast in the dough and makes the bubbles stronger. This helps the bread to rise and be lighter and fluffier. If you are boiling potatoes, you can use the unsalted water in place of the water in your bread recipe to help out the yeast.

“First, you should start with the bun, then add the ketchup and the lettuce to catch the juices from the burger,” he suggests. “Next, add your choice of patty, then any cheese, and finally, some sort of pickle and then mayo on top.”

I think the taste and the texture of buns are best when lightly toasted. To toast a bun on a grill, grill pan, or griddle, split the bun open, place it cut side down on the grill, and grill until light golden brown, about 10 seconds.

It's best to defrost frozen bread with heat rather than at room temperature according to tests done by Cook's Illustrated. Place the unwrapped frozen loaf in the oven at 325°F for 20-30 minutes. Check the internal temperature if you have a probe thermometer.