The Story of Max The Bagel Maker and the Davidovich Par Baked Solution

September 3, 2018 NYC–  Max dreamt his whole life of owning his own business.   It is as American a concept as Ice Cream on Apple Pie.  Now Max has done it.   After moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico he decided it’s time to open a real bagel store, like the one he worked for in New York City.

His business plan- give people a touch of NYC in New Mexico. Max knew what he was doing. He knew how to mix the dough, how to roll the bagels, how to water boil, and bake them.

People will flock to my little piece of the Big Apple in the West,” Max Boasted.

What Max didn’t count on was that despite all of his knowledge and efforts the bagels just don’t come out like they did in NYC.   They are good bagels.   They are made right, but there is something missing.  They don’t have that authentic crispness outside and chewy interior.  Where did Max fail?

HE DIDN’T.

The truth is NYC is the King of Bagels for a reason.  Even the best bagel makers, like Max, can’t duplicate NYC’s finest bagels in places where they don’t have access to NYC’s water and NYC’s weather conditions.  New Mexico is No exception.

Max Works 16-17 Hour Work Days With Mixed Results

To make matters worse Max is getting to work at 1AM to start the laborious process of creating  his bagels.   Bagels are labor intensive.   He has the job of measuring, mixing, cutting the dough, hand rolling, boiling, baking, and selling all by himself.    Some nights he stays until 7PM, or later, just to catch a few hours of sleep and start the whole process all over again.  How long can one person, or one family, sustain that kind of a grueling schedule?

What is an entrepreneur, like Max, to do?   THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY.

Well there is a real solution to give Max, and other Bagel Store owners, access to NYC’s finest bagels right in New Mexico, or anywhere in the world, and to give him back his life again.  That solution is the Davidovich Par Baked Solution.

With Davidovich’s Par Baked Bagel program Max can eliminate all of the ingredient costs, as well as the mixing, the cutting, the rolling, the proofing, the boiling, the seeding and most of the baking.  In a matter of less than one hour he can serve his customers the very best NYC has to offer-bagels made in NYC, with NYC’s water and in NYC’s environment but “baked off” in his very own facility for just a few minutes.   THIS IS A WIN-WIN!

Max’s customers get the authentic NYC Bagel and he gets to save himself the time and back breaking labor of real bagel making and even sleep for an additional 5 hours.  With Davidovich as his partner Max can’t lose. Neither can you.

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A Brief History of the Bagel

A bagel is a round bread, with a hole in the middle made of simple ingredients:  high-gluten flour, yeast, salt, water, and malt.  Its dough is boiled, then baked, and the result should be a rich caramel color.  It should not be pale and blond.  A bagel should weigh five ounces or less and should make a slight crackling sound when you bite into it.  A bagel should be eaten warm and, ideally, should be no more than four to five hours old when consumed.  All else is not a bagel.

The bagel’s birthplace is considered to be Poland.  A story popular in the United States is that the first bagel was produced as a tribute to Jan Sobieski, 17th Century King of Poland, after he saved Austria from Turkish invaders at the battle of Vienna in 1683.  According to Maria Balinska, the author of “The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread” (Yale University Press) it is just that-a story.

The first known reference to the bagel among Jews in Poland, according to Balinska, precedes the Battle of Vienna by seven decades.  It is found, she says, in regulations issued in Yiddish in 1610 by the Jewish Council of Krakow outlining how much Jewish households were permitted to spend in celebrating the circumcision of a baby boy- “to avoid making Gentile neighbors envious, and also to make sure poorer Jews weren’t living above their means.”

Eastern European immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20thcentury brought the bagel with them to the streets of the Lower East Side.  The rise of the bagel in New York in inextricably tied to that of the trade unions, specifically Bagel Bakers Local 338, a federation of nearly 300 bagel craftsmen formed in NYC in the early 1900s.

Local 338 was, by all accounts, a tough and unswerving union.  It was set up according to strict rules that limited new membership to the sons of current members.  By 1915, it controlled 36 bagel bakeries in New York and New Jersey.  These bakeries produced the original New York Bagels, the standard against which all others are still, in some manner judged.

What did they look like?  They were a mere three ounces.  They were smaller and denser than their modern descendants with a crustier exterior and chewier interior.   They were made entirely by hand.

Local 338 held its ironclad grip on the bagel market for nearly half a century, until industrial bagel-making machines were introduced into the market in the early 1960s.  The introduction of the bagel machines meant any retailer or bakery owner could make their own bagels with non-union help.

Today Davidovich Bagels are the links to the Old World bagels brought to the Lower East Side of New York.   They are:

  • Kosher-Pas Yisroel
  • Retarded for 18-24 hours
  • Hand Made
  • Kettle Boiled
  • Plank Baked
  • Double Seeded
  • All Natural
  • Certified Made in NYC

and now for the modern World concerns

  • Non-GMO Certified
  • Vegan (except Egg)