How this 110-year-old Toronto bakery sets out to build the perfect bagel

And, here, at one of the city’s best-known purveyors of the breakfast staple, there’s a science to the bagel-making.

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Between the Bathurst shop and the Concord facility, Gryfe’s bakes some 18,000 bagels each day.

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The bagels bake in one of three ovens for no longer than 20 minutes.

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Art Gryfe and son Mel show off their handiwork in 1991.

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Sam and Malka Gryfe stand in front of the bakery on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market in 1931.

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Bill Gryfe with the S. Gryfe and Sons’ truck, circa 1933.

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