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

Why are McDonald's buns so soft? ›

In 2018, the fast-food chainremoved calcium propionate from its buns. Innovation Product Development Food Service Buns McDonald's Corp.

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.

The most common way is to use your oven. Heat it up to about 350°F (175°C). Sprinkle a bit of water over the crust or lightly dampen the bread's surface with a cloth. Then, pop the bread into the oven for 10-15 minutes.

The ideal burger bun is pillowy soft, squishy and tender. It needs enough structural integrity that it will hold strong with a juicy burger, but should never be tough and chewy - that would distract from all the other delicious flavours and textures in a perfectly crafted burger.

For soft bread, use a high-gluten flour, such as bread flour or all-purpose flour. Use the right amount of water. The amount of water you use will also affect the texture of your bread. If you use too much water, your bread will be too soft and sticky.

Avoid adding too much extra flour to the dough.

Since this dough is enriched and takes quite a while to come together, it'll look really wet and sticky. Your instinct might be to add extra flour; however, any extra flour will create a denser, tougher bun instead of the light, fluffy, brioche-style bun we want.

These buns taste no different than any other burger bun. The only thing that makes them different is the coloring!

Bread is usually fine to eat if you don't see any mold.

According to StillTasty, packaged bread (such as white bread) will keep for five to seven days at room temperature if it's stored properly. Once refrigerated, it will retain its freshness for three to four days before becoming stale.

Stay fresh: Both the fat from the milk and butter preserve the freshness of these soft dinner rolls and keeps them soft for a days. The fat keeps the rolls from drying out! Soft: The perfect ratio of flour to fat to liquid makes these dinner rolls uber soft.

Hard crusts/bread/buns etc means that you are either baking on too low heat and for too long, OR the dough you started off with was not kneaded well enough.

Why do burger buns get soggy? ›

To prevent the buns from getting soggy, keep them away from any sources of moisture, such as the sink, wet dish towels or damp countertops. Moisture makes the buns all mushy and leads to bacterial and mould growth. Ironically, buns can also dry out when not kept away from moisture.

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

Regular Bun: Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% or Less: Salt, Wheat Gluten, Potato Flour, May Contain One or More Dough Conditioners (DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Mono and Diglycerides, Enzymes), Vinegar.

We use less than a teaspoon of sugar in each of the buns which gives them the colour and texture that makes them perfect for burgers.

The biggest change is the new bun recipe

McDonald's has overhauled its buns. The new recipe is described as "a buttery, brioche-style" bun with a "soft and pillowy" texture. McDonald's has also scaled back the number of sesame seeds on each bun.