I'm Blake, an electrician, musician, and writer in Chicago, and I've been baking homemade bagels since 2015. It seems like a lot of people picked up baking as a hobby in the free time that 2020 gave us, but I still hear so many people afraid to try and tackles bagel making. There's nothing like a fresh homemade bagel, though, so I put the 2020 free time towards refining my recipes, crunching numbers, and figuring out how I could start sharing my breakfast staple with more people!