Alternatively, boil up the smaller rounds you've collected from the middle of each circle to make mini bagel bites (just adjust the boil and bake time accordingly to account for their smaller size).

Scooping or tunneling a bagel is the practice of using a spoon to dig out a circle of the bready interior between the hole and the crust of both halves of the bagel. Some people choose to scoop ...

Then, I molded three dough chunks into the typical bagel shape: a circle with a hole in the center (a.k.a. a torus, as I discovered while writing this article!). In the end, I wound up with three ...