Mix 4 cups of flour, cup and a half of warm water, instant yeast, tea spoon of salt, tablespoon of melted cooled butter and a tablespoon of brown sugar. Just mix in a bowl until everything come together and plop it on a lightly floured surface, than mix and knead it for a few minutes, have a little pile of flour on the side to sprinkld on the surface and your hand or else it will be huge sticky mess. Put back into oiled bowl and cover with a moist hand towel and wait for at least half an hour. Once risen portion out some dough balls and roll them out into long tubes, makes sure to wipe down the hotdogs with a paper towel before wrapping them in the tubes, and if like me you can't get the dough long enough before tearing to make the actual pretzel shape just rip off chunks for nuggets, keep in mind they'll probably grow 1.5 time once there done. Next you need to give them an acid bath, just take 4.5 cups of water and add 1/4 cup of baking soda before bring to a boil. Once its boiling just dunk in the pretzels one at a time for about 20 seconds. don't try to do a lot at a time because if you leave them in to long they get a nasty metallic taste, it's a pain and takes forever but one at a time is the way to go. As soon as you take one out season it with some pretzel or kosher salt. Finally place on a pan with parchment paper, don't use foil it'll stick like crazy, and bake for 12-17 at 400 degrees.
