Characteristics of the Best New York City Bagels

... according to https://everythingiseverything.nyc/.

Over 13 months during the pandemic, the duo at Highley Varlet scored 200+ bagels from 1 to 5 in three categories: Bagel, Store, and Cream Cheese.

Bagels were also described using 8 characteristics:

• Bagel features (cracklyness/chewyness, size, topping density, salt level)
• Cream cheese features (fine/coarse scallions, dairy-forward/dairy-latent)
• Store features (contemporary/classic, variety of offerings)

and all 5 boroughs of New York City were represented.

Are Bagel Characteristics Predictive of Score?

Our main question: which of these bagel characteristics is most important to a high-scoring bagel? The most up-to-date analyses can be found here: https://danni-tu.github.io/nyc_bagels/.

(Marginal linear associations between bagel characteristics and score categories.)

References

Data source: Highley Varlet @ https://everythingiseverything.nyc/

Image source: By Politikaner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10428235