I wanted to try homemade pretzels today. Fired the oven up and made the pretzel dough.
Getting it going.
[![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111607-87af3455da95b5147f1a5e70ce194c66.jpg)
Rolling along.
Cooking with the water-soaked baking door on. Wisps of bready pretzels smells drifted out. Hot coals soaked the bricks for 20 minutes and were raked out 15 minutes prior.
One bad scene. I will have to make another fire to cook out the stuck dough. I broke a few rules here. I didn't want to use cornmeal, but I should have floured the bricks maybe. The pretzels were wet from the dip in water/baking soda. Flour probably would not have helped. The recipe called for baking on the sheet pan, but it would not fit in the door of the oven.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111612-07d0224e8a1a34151ed7f170f77ff399.jpg)
I salvaged about 6 if you count broken pieces. They were tasty and chewy. A few never made it onto the plate.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111614-08005b8083e8eacc3bad23010ce0bb33.jpg)
I rose the pretzel dough, but next time I would cut the rise time in half. They puffed up too big. The Octoberfest beer was the best part of the afternoon.
Getting it going.
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![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111607-87af3455da95b5147f1a5e70ce194c66.jpg)
Rolling along.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111608-495319180fe644fc09c06ec1b8f6f594.jpg)
Cooking with the water-soaked baking door on. Wisps of bready pretzels smells drifted out. Hot coals soaked the bricks for 20 minutes and were raked out 15 minutes prior.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111609-deec8d84aae61aee00463b45a1e218ff.jpg)
One bad scene. I will have to make another fire to cook out the stuck dough. I broke a few rules here. I didn't want to use cornmeal, but I should have floured the bricks maybe. The pretzels were wet from the dip in water/baking soda. Flour probably would not have helped. The recipe called for baking on the sheet pan, but it would not fit in the door of the oven.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111612-07d0224e8a1a34151ed7f170f77ff399.jpg)
I salvaged about 6 if you count broken pieces. They were tasty and chewy. A few never made it onto the plate.
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111613-13d883ff5bdc13c2ffaf4ba82b83d591.jpg)
![WFO pretzels. Miserable failure. WFO pretzels. Miserable failure.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/111/111614-08005b8083e8eacc3bad23010ce0bb33.jpg)
I rose the pretzel dough, but next time I would cut the rise time in half. They puffed up too big. The Octoberfest beer was the best part of the afternoon.