- [Steven] Andrew. - Yes. - [Steven] Want to ice skate? - Are you a confident ice skater? (energetic piano) - We're here at the rink
at Rockefeller Center. - Bagels. - Bagels. - Bagels. - Bagels. - Andrew? - Today, on Worth It, we're
gonna try three bagels at three drastically
different price points to find out which one is the
most worth it at its price. - Look, making bagels. You know what that shape is? It's a bagel shape. - Circular foods. - Some of the best foods. - Bagel. - Donuts sponge cake, calamari. Let's GTF Bagel. - Oh, I get it, cause the O is a bagel. Alright, they're gone, I'm alone. (old time music) - My name is Scott Spellman. We're at Utopia Bagels. Well, we make hand-rolled kettle boiled bagels,
the old-fashioned way. - And where does that passion
for baking start with you? - Believe it or not, when I was young, I actually worked at a bagel
place, called Boulevard Bagels. This place is a good friend of mine. Anthony, he owns the place
and, like you guys together, there's no better partner
you could have, and - Ah, we're actually more of a trio. - Hey Adam.
- Can't forget him. [Adam] - What's up? - So basically, we have a formula, that's put into a mixer we also use molt. A lot of bagels made today
are used with brown sugar. It's placed on a rolling table. It is proofed a little bit
then they'll start rolling it. This guy, right there,
I call him the Machine. He's been rolling bagels for 20 years. - [Andrew] Wow. - A lot of bagel places
are machine rolled. There's not too many people
that, continue to hand roll. So before it's placed in the fridge, it needs to be proofed and risen. It's something that's
underrated in baking. And if you speak to any
baker it's prob'ly the key. Then it's placed in the fridgeration, before it enters the next
stage which is the kettle. My ultimate thing is
that feel on the paddle. If you under kettle a bagel, it'll come out looking like a baseball. If you over kettle a bagel,
it'll come out too big. So, after the kettle we have
poppy, sesame, all these flavors and you're putting
those flavors on these boards. From there you put it in the oven and it goes around one
turn and you flip it. I always use the phrase round and brown. - [Steven] Round and brown, alright. (register bell) - Get me a drink. For the lactose slightly intolerant. Nah. - For the lactose is definitely
gonna kill him someday. - Cheers. (upbeat jazz) - Oh that's so crispy. - These nice creases right
in the middle right there. - You can definitely
tell it's been hand made. Because there's imperfections every bagel is a little bit different. - See this right here Adam. Memory foam bagels. - I'm gonna try it on
it's own to begin with. (chant of excitement) - Super good, doesn't even
need a condiment honestly. - Best bagel I've ever had. - Perfect bagel, a little cream cheese. - Oh, oo. Cream cheese heaven, the
beauty of memory foam, is that when you sink into it, it morphs to you, when I
put this bagel in my mouth, (pastry crunch) the bread slowly fills
the chambers of my mouth. - Chambers of my mouth, by Steven Lim. (organ chimes) It does have a delicious multi smell. - Hey. - Hey. - We're gonna kick it up a little bit. We're gonna give you an everything bagel. We got cream cheese, tomato, and of coarse our Norwegian Atlantic Nova, capers, and red onion this, definitelys
gonna take it up a notch. - Look at the height on that. - He does not mess around. - Also such a beautiful array of colors. (swing music) - Oh God. - Damn. - [Adam] Is that incredible? - Oh yeah. - I could eat that everyday,
the rest of my life. - Oo, look at that bite. (hardy chuckle) - Clean. - See you later. - [Chef] See you later. - Oh
- Utopia! Guess what I got, to go. It's an egg, everything, bagel. Bagel Fact, in Montreal, everything bagels, are
called all dressed bagels. - Really. - That's right. - So would you call a plain
bagel an all naked bagel? - Oo, now, a very, unique bagel. It is the Jerusalem bagel. We're gonna eat it for din
din, with some cocktails. - A dinner bagel, let's do it. (bus brakes) (soothing guitar) My name is Einat Admony,
we here in New York, West Village and this is Bar Bolonat. We goin to have today, Jerusalem bagel. - How would you describe
the difference between that and a classic New York style bagel. - We bake it only, we don't boil it. It's a little bit more fluffy
and light and airy inside. When travel in Jerusalem, when you going around the old city or the next to the, Western world, you will see a lot of kids like with a huge tray on their shoulder. All around Jerusalem you sometimes smells from this bagel and this baked sesame. It's like absolutely divine. So we basically make a small snake. And then we twist it,
we brush it with egg. And then we dip it in a bath
of sesame, and then we bake it. Around 20 minutes, 365 degrees. We serve it here with, a great extra virgin olive oil and Za'tar. - Za'tar, what is - What is Za'tar? It's a wild herb, it will grow next to Jerusalem on the dry
places on the mountain. Tastes, between oregano to thyme. - So are we having those together, or kind of one and then the other? - So the best way, you rip up the bread and then
you put it first in the oil, and then all the Za'tar
just going to stick now. - This is very strange. I have a cocktail and a bagel. - We got Einat's favorite
drink, the Yalla. In Arabic it's slang
for let's go, hurry up. (glasses clinking) - Ooh, that is straight up juice. - Woo that's juicy Moscow mule. Moscow mule if you guys don't know, is tequila, lemon,
ginger, but that's orange. - Is that it? - Yeah. Oh man, okay. I don't know anything about alcohol, but it tastes like a Moscow mule. There are so many sesame
seeds on this bagel. If there's anything I
love more than anything, It's sesame seeds,
sesame oil, open sesame. - Open sesame. - That's right. - [Andrew] Look at that. - [Steven] Oh man! - [Andrew] Cheers. - Cheers. (lively accordion) - That's, something else. - That's nice. - This is a game changer, a dry condiment, is not a thing you usually, come across. - Uh huh. - It's kind of like, the
bottom of a bag of chips where you just have like that flavor dust. But this is like a delicious organic, little pocket of flavor dust. Well you got the double dip. Should Adam try? Adam try a bagel? - Yeah. (sultry music) (energetic bass) - Dessert bagel. - I wanna bite of yours. Do not shove that in my face. - Okay. (scoffing laugh) Oo that's good. - Bagel fact! Did you know that in 1963,
the first bagel machine was invented, like the
automated bagel machine. - Really. - And it was invented by a man, who was a math teacher, by
the name of Daniel Thompson. And he also invented the
folding ping pong table. - Wow. - Yeah. - I guess once you start
inventing one thing, all the other inventions just kind of like cascade out of your mind. - And now, we go, to the one
thousand dollar gold bagel, which all the proceeds
actually go to charity. That's what makes it worth it. - Yeah that's cool. - The bagel is found
at a hotel, the Westin. And the charity is the
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. And we're gonna go check
that out a little bit later. (laid back piano) - My name is Frank Tujague I
am the director of services here at the Westin New
York at times square. - Hi I'm Craig Reid, executive chef. And today we will tasting
the thousand dollar bagel. - I have a passion for
seasonal ingredients. I wanted to use the truffle. Growing up in New York I wanted to use the bagel, and they just worked. - So it's always been for or
helping some sort of program. - It's always been non-profit. 100% of the money,
brought in for this bagel, is donated to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen which is, the number one food kitchen serving hungry New
Yorkers in New York City. (calming piano) - I'm Andrew St. John I'm the
Interim Executive Director. - I'm Michael Ottley I'm
the Director of Operations. - It's been known for 35 years. It hasn't missed a day in all those years. Even in 1990 when the church burned down they served that day as well and we feed, up to a thousand people a day. - [Andrew] So every day
about a thousand people. - [St. John] That's the average yeah. - So basically the meal is a
nutricius meal that's made, from scratch we use no processed food. - [Steven] And anybody can
come here, and eat here. - [Michael] Anybody. - [St. John] I can assure,
an authentic taste. - We are so glad to be
able to talk to you guys, to see how the proceeds are gonna come in and greatly impact Holy
Apostles kitchen so thank you. - We start off with a
really nice New York bagel. Then I take mascarpone and cream cheese and I whip that together. So we smeared it onto the bagel and then we have the truffle which is the main important ingredient on it. So we have nice white
truffles, we shave those thin. Then I use goji berry jelly. So I think decent wine and goji berries, coming together, pureed up a little bit, thicken it up and then
make that into the jelly. Goes great with truffle,
the pungent of the truffle and sweetness of the jelly. Then we have a little gold leaf
for a little bit of pizazz. It kind of just, heightens
up the color a little bit. (register bell) - I have eaten more truffle in my life, in the last year because of Worth It. So people always ask me what is truffle, smell like like it's hard to describe. - It's kind of like how, why do we enjoy eating spicy food if it's hurting us, but I think the best spicy food is right on the edge of delicious and pain. And truffle is right on the edge of delicious smelling and quite
frankly nasty smelling. But it's riding that line
where, it's the best smell. - To me, when I first smelled truffle. It smells bad, initially,
but then it's like, the more you smell it the better it gets. - Yeah. - We'll eat together alright. - Okay. Bagel cheers. - Cheers. (soft keyboard) Solid bagel. - That is really tasty. I would never guess that jelly, and a mushroomy thing, would
taste really good together. You don't really encounter that often. - Yeah. Wow, I'm surprised, the jelly just like, cancels out a lot of the
really weird funk pungentness. - Like a dank. - And it really brings out the nice, colorful, dank flavor of the truffle. - Of all the truffle things I've had this is actually top two maybe. - I think this is a good truffle food. For people who actually don't know if they like truffles or not. It's a good gateway, it's a truffle dove. (upbeat music) - Alright who's your
worth it winner Andrew? - My worth it winner is Utopia Bagels. I can't find a fault in their bagels. - For me I so wanna pick
the Jerusalem bagel but I, it's this close, but it goes to Utopia. - [Andrew] Yeah. - The Utopia Bagel's my worth it winner. I realize that I did not
know what a bagel was. I've grown up today, I hit bagel puberty. - Whoa - And I learned what bagels are. - Hey Adam what's your worth it winner. Bar Bolanat, Adam picks Bar Bolonat - Whoa.
- Yeah. - I saw that a mile away. This is something I sorely
miss in Los Angeles. I think people just don't get it. Like there's too much sunshine, they don't crave the comfort
of a warm bready thing, because they don't have that
deep sadness that you need. - You sayin that New York's a sad city? - It's just a theory. It's just like winter,
the anger, the honking. - [Steven] Oh yes!
I get the sense they didn’t feel like the 1000 dollar bagel was that great