These Homemade Hamburger Buns are incredibly fast, easy and delicious!  In less than an hour, you can have soft and fluffy hamburger buns without going to the store.  Make this 40 minute hamburger bun recipe for your next cookout! (2024)

FAQs

What is the secret of soft buns? ›

Add Sugar

Adding sugar weakens the gluten structure, absorbs water, and eventually makes the bread lighter and softer. As a result, sugar improves the bread's taste, structure and texture. Yeast also eats up sugar to produce carbon dioxide, which raises the dough and makes bread fluffy.

*Please note all our buns, rolls and tortilla wraps are toasted in the same toaster as buns topped with sesame seeds.

FRESH DELIVERIES: Buns are packed and shipped the next day to restaurants. Fresh Start says McDonald's customers should never eat a bun or muffin that's more than four days old. Fresh Start bakes buns/muffins for the Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, regular hamburger, Angus burger and Egg McMuffin.

A standard white hamburger bun has 26 grams (g) of refined carbs and a little under 1 gram of fiber (USDA). It means that traditional burger buns are not only nutritionally deficient but also a no-no if you're following a low-carb diet.

Ever wondered, "How do bakeries make bread so soft?" The answer lies in their techniques and special ingredients: Consistency: Bakeries often use machines to ensure consistent kneading and proofing times. This consistency is key to producing the same soft texture batch after batch.

Though we don't serve 'bunless burger' per se, you can simply order a burger without the bun - just ask your server when ordering and they'll take care of it.

The additional space is required by McDonald's, one of Northeast Foods' primary clients, as McDonald's now requires all of its buns to be frozen for product integrity and freshness. Northeast Foods' Automatic Rolls of New Jersey has been baking buns for McDonald's since the 1970s.

McDonald's burgers are made of 100% ground beef, formed into hamburger patties, and then quickly frozen at our suppliers to seal in great fresh flavor. We add salt and pepper to our burgers when they are cooked on the grill at our restaurants to bring out all that great beef taste.

The bun is white bread, just like you can buy at the grocery store.

Try basting your buns for moisture and flavor.

"Using melted butter with just a 1/2 teaspoon each of garlic powder, chili powder, or cumin can totally transform a boring bun."

Why is brioche bad? ›

However, due to the higher butter content in brioche, brioche contains more fat and more calories than other kinds of bread. Unfortunately, the fat content comes mainly from saturated fats, which should be limited to 5% to 6% of a person's daily caloric intake, according to the American Heart Association.

The magic of an egg

Adding egg white will make the dough more stable as it rises, less likely to collapse, giving you buns that feel more soft and bouncy. So add egg to your mix for a natural bun dough improver and emulsifier.

Milk powder.

Instant milk powder makes bread dough super soft and fluffy and also helps to give it a good rise. It also contributes to the dough staying nice and soft after baking for a little longer than a recipe that does not use milk powder.

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.

The quickest and easiest way to revive packaged buns is to simply add heat. "Just a little heat, such as from grilling or toasting, reactivates the gluten in the bread," Formicola told BI. "This makes the buns softer and enhances their scent."