Farm Steady, Everything Bagel & Cream Cheese

The bagles were fantastic! Really easy to follow instructions and tasted great!!!!We haven't done the cheese recipe because it takes a while. Also I don't know if I missed it but the recipe is missing measurements since everything is premeasured and I would love to use the same recipe again if someone else makes these!

No Instructions included!!! I found the recipe on the website to make the bagels and needed extra ingredients and a food processor which is not explained when you buy the product. Did the bagels exactly as they have written and they were awful - flat as a pancake. They rose the first time but there is no mention of letting them rise again after you form them, just to put them in the boiling malt water which I did. Baked them as directed and they were a little higher than a bagel chip. Cheaper to buy a dozen bagels. Also not understanding why they are selling Fresh Ricotta Cheese kits - I make it all the time and it is literally 4 ingredients and cheese cloth. It literally takes 45 minutes to make. I bought several kits from them but now I am sorry I spent all this money on nothing special - I will never buy another kit from them, total waste of time and money.

They were delicious and we had fun making them!

I'm a New York Jew, which means bagels are incredibly important to me. I moved to North Carolina where there are zero good bagels. Zero. My daughter gave me this kit for Mother's Day and the bagels are great. I mean, they're not Murray's on 6th Avenue but better than anything I've had here. The cream cheese was a chore and next time I might just buy some in the store but I topped it with scallions and capers and am enjoying my life thoroughly at this moment.Thanks for this great product. Also, you should clarify the part(for the cream cheese) where you say 'let the milk and cream sit for 12 hours and add 'on the counter' not in the refrigerator'.

Received the apple cider donut bag as a gift. No recipe is included forcing you to the website. The company obviously wants you to buy other products!! It costs $25.00 to receive a fabric bag and the dry ingredients. The eggs, cider, butter, etc. had to be provided by me. Using a muffin pan with a tinfoil ball as a sub for a donut pan is a total disaster.The result is really unattractive! As an experienced baker, the donuts didn't even taste good. Rather than waste the calories, they ended up in the disposal.Do not buy this product for yourself or as a gift!

The process was a lot of fun and the bagels were delicious. Glad that the company is being environment conscious by not killing trees to print instructions! We prefer going online for instructions/video. The process was straightforward and the end result was amazing. We bought our kit on Uncommon Goods website.

I got this for christmas and was absolutely psyched. Of course anyone can go online and look up bagel making instructions, but having a dedicated kit sounded awesome.I open up the box and there are...no instructions. Instead, a directive to go to a website...which I then have to search for my kit rather than having a specialized shortened URL per-kit, which an amateur web dev can do ....which in turn, goes to a YouTube video....which in turn, begins by describing the short part of the process (bagel making) and directs me to....another video, which does not appear in a Youtube search....so I'm back to the website....which leads me to a video....with the first mention of having to buy enormous quantities of specialized food (full fat, non-pasturized dairy...and the process will take 20 hours, so my saturday afternoon attack means this weekend is a no-go.Is all of this a bit entitled? Absolutely. But I got a DIY kit so that I could pop open the box, turn off the screens in my house, and enjoy a cathartic process with delicious results at the end making something from scratch. Not spending 20 minutes searching the internet. I could have done that on my own. This is an awful execution, and it's pretty much guaranteed I won't buy another product from these guys. Constructive steps for other DIY kit makers:1. Spend the extra penny or two to include instructions inside the package. Don't need crazy visuals - a video can do that.2. Provide a short list of extra ingredients that need to be purchased beforehand on the outside. Want to cover it with more advertising copy? Do it in a flap.3. In the instructions, provide ALTERNATIVES to specialized equipment not everyone will have. Food processor to mix? Use a sieve or a blender. Slotted spoon? I dunno, another hack. Double Boiler? 2 sequentially sized pans (this was actually given).4. If you want internet instructions to supplement, make access direct and straightforward. This kit could have gone to a URL specifically for it, and a big button for video instructions. The video instructions should start with the most time consuming process. Absolutely baffling that this is not the case.

Useless!! Returning kits I bought as a gift because recipient doesn't have a computer to search the FarmSteady website for the instructions (which aren't even printable!!!). He can't follow along using his phone. I would have printed the instructions for him but, alas, a dim bulb at FarmSteady thought it was a great idea to not only NOT include instructions but to make sure the online instructions are NOT printable I am SO embarrassed that my gift is not usable!!! It is utter B.S. to not include instructions in package OR, at least, provide printable instructions online.Addendum: Beware! You also need a food processor! After going the convoluted route to find the instructions, I then learned that there are no recommendations regarding what to do in lieu of an expensive piece of equipment. If you're a baker/cook, you might have a food processor, but you'd buy your own ingredients and use a recipe easily found online. An expensive all-in-one kit would, I assume, be geared toward someone who isn't a whiz in the kitchen and wouldn't have all the bells and whistles in their kitchen.