Subscribe
Previous Post
Summer is the time for cook-outs for sure. When you can make homemade, delicious (soft!) hot dog and hamburger buns in less than an hour why in the world would you buy them?
Did I say less than an hour? Yep!
These freeze well so you can make them ahead of time. If you have a regular baking day, or OAMC weekend make up a few batches of these for the month and freeze them for quick meals anytime.
Most of us do not consider how many chemicals we take into our bodies. We watch fats, and eat healthy, but when you are buying prepared foods, like bread, you are getting all kinds of things that are unpronounceable. Even if you are not eating organic (and I really encourage you to do so as much as you can) making your own foods will keep many chemicals out of your family’s bodies.
And just because I am on a soapbox here….
Rant:Americans, for the most part, spend the least percentage of their paycheck of anyone in the world on groceries. We would rather have cable t.v. and a new car than high quality foods. What has happened in the last 50 years is that we have lost flavors! We are used to eating so bland that fresh foods taste too intense sometimes. You cannot buy a two week old carrot from Kroger and expect it to taste like a carrot picked fresh from your garden. You cannot buy beef that has been raised in stressful factory conditions, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and forced to be cannibalistic, ground up and then pumped full of stuff to make it red, and expect it to taste like beef that has been pastured and allowed to be raised in a humane and ethical manner. It amazes me that people will pay 4.00 a gallon for gas so they can run to the mall and yet will gravitate toward the 1.99 a lb stuff at wal-mart. End Rant
Give these a try, even if you aren’t used to working with a yeast dough. They are super simple!
Homemade Hot Dog or Hamburger Buns
1 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup unsalted butter
4 1/2 cups flour (unbleached, whole wheat, or a mix)
1 package instant yeast
1 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 egg, room temperature
Heat the milk, water, honey and butter until butter is melted. Check temperature. Depending on the temperature, let cool to 120F. Carefully beat in egg.
Mix 2 cups of the flour, yeast, and salt. Mix into the milk mixture. Stir in the rest of the flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Beat well after each addition.
When the dough pulls together, (it will form a soft ball) turn it out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic. This should take about 5 minutes.
Divide dough into 12 -16 equal pieces. This will depend on the size you want for the finished bun. Shape into smooth balls, flatten slightly, and place on a silpat covered baking sheet.
Let rise for 30 to 35 minutes. When buns have almost doubled bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
If you are making hot dog buns I find it easiest to roll the dough out into a large rectangle and cut into smaller rectangles. Let rise with sides touching.
You can brush the tops with egg wash and sprinkle with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, coarse sea salt, or whatever you like. You can add dry onion soup mix for onion rolls. These are very versatile!
Makes 12-16
Image: Marye Audet
4 days ago
[...] one of my favorites! It definitely tastes best if you make homemade hamburger buns ahead of [...]
I haven’t tried the recipe myself yet but perhaps you did something wrong as everyone else had success. :)
I made these today using a couple cups of whole wheat flour, and a couple cups of sprouted flour and 1/2 cup of regular flour. They came out very nice! I did an egg wash with sesame seeds on top. Today I had one with an herbed turkey burger slider – a recipe I got from Martha Stewart’s book. It was delicious with lettuce, tomato, red onion and a little mayo. I took a pic of the beautiful burger on the plate. Wish I could post it here butI guess I can’t?
Turned out great! Separating the dough into 16 is great for sliders, 12 for regular burgers. I also let mine rise for an hour and a half – made nice, fluffy buns!
Love the rant so true…delicious buns dough was amazing to work with I used 1 egg for 4 batches and replaced the 3 missing eggs with water …it worked well thanks!
.25 ounce
These were super easy to make and turned out perfectly.
This sounds like a decent recipe. Whenever I make any sort of bread, I use the bread maker to mix everything up and let it rise a bit (pizza dough setting), which takes about 40 mins. The one question I have, however, is: how much yeast is in one packet? And what is the difference between instant and regular yeast? Are we talking a teaspoon of yeast granules or three teaspoons of powdered yeast? Would like an answer before making these for our daughter’s birthday this weekend. :)
I have seen this exact recipe at innumerable web sites
Super easy and a amazing. Did not have a brush for egg batter so I used the heel of a old loaf of bread.
Easy and simple.
Didn’t even need that last half cup of flour.
Here in Canada our packages are 8 grams or .25 ounces.
This is a new family favorite! They turned out great for hamburger buns. I can’t wait to make them as hotdog buns. The only thing I did different was dissolve the yeast in the warm milk mixture and added a tsp of sugar and 1/2 tsp of honey. Yeast needs additional sugar to rise well.
your content was lame. I wasted good money I really needed to spend elsewhere on our assedup idea of homemade bread. You and this web site is going to be black listed.
i’ven seen a video on youtube from someone who made this recipe and I decided to try it, definetely the best buns I’ve made so far, the only problem is that they are not even close to what I’ve seen on this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFDusY15bw&feature=related
they taste great but they aren’t that soft, my buns always have a thick bread crust, I wonder what might be wrong… I baked it for 1 hour and 30 minutes on 205ºC, does your recipe requires 400ºF or 400ºC? in my oven, 205ºC is medium low, 380ºC (716ºF) is the highest
maybe something here in Brazil is different? the yeast I used look like this one: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:-CToQ3wgzYSgwM:http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/fanaticcook/yeast.jpg&t=1
is that the right one? I’ve made the recipe using white flour, and I just noticed that whole flour is a little bit different, more yellow, right?
sorry, I’m not an expert, just someone trying to make some great buns, thanks for the great recipe! I’ll keep trying until I find out what’s wrong =P
I made these tonight and they have turned out just beautifully. I will never buy from the store again. Thank you so much for posting this recipe.
Made these yesterday and loved them. I used 2 cups whole wheat flour and the rest bread flour. I also let them rise an hour before shaping for the second rise like AB suggested. Thank you!
These are great. Your recipe was very easy to follow, and the buns did stay really soft – perfect for burgers!
One thing that might help some of your readers: Rather than measure the flour, as a measured cup can vary a lot, try weighing it. A cup of unbleached all purpose flour weighs (usually) 120 grams. Read the bag or check online if you’re using any other type or a mix.
822 days ago
[...] http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights/easy-perfect-homemade-hamburger-or-hot-dog-buns/ Leave a Comment [...]
846 days ago
[...] on Vienna rolls, hamburger buns, or whatever you like and eat…with a [...]
846 days ago
[...] did make the buns, though! This hamburger or hot dog bun recipe looked easy enough. OF the 4.5 cups flour called for, I used 1 cup white bread flour and 3.5 cups [...]