I love donuts of all kinds, but the best I can find in our town is some kind of concoction that claims to be a donut, but I have my doubts. And I think they are made a day in advance and called “fresh,” which to my mind, should be illegal if they are more than 4 hours old.
So I’ve always wanted to make my own. I see dozens of models of donut makers from $14 to $100, each making 4-7 donuts per batch. Are these worth it?
The $100 one claims it “automatically forms, fries and drains tasty mini-donuts in just 50 seconds”.
It looks like they are limited to small cake donuts, not large raised ones, but that is better than nothing, and anything fresh and hot would be an improvement over my currently boring and mundane existence. If I could bring a batch of hot donuts to my office in the morning, I’d be a big hit.
I’ve never used anything like that, but we do fresh donuts in our Thanksgiving turkey deep-fryer each year (before the turkey, of course, so they don’t taste like bird). Dee-licious.
Not too off the wall, just another variant on the cake dougnut; the 1950s Brown Bobby was pretty much a waffle iron designed to cook cake doughnuts, tarted up in a franchise scheme.
Nope. Cake donuts are made by an machine that plops ring-shaped bits of cake batter into hot oil. The plungers determine the final shape of the donut.
I used to be the “Time to make the donuts” guy in high school.
My thoughts are that the waffle iron style ones will be easy to use and last quite a while, but the donuts won’t taste the same as bakery items. They’ll probably still be tasty though.
The Nostalgia Electrics $100 machine is supposedly an updated version of the one ThinkGeek used to sell. That sucker makes proper cake donuts! I would have concerns about temperature control (The wrong temp will ruin them) and durability. But damn, I want one now.
I once sent away for a cheapie donut pan, you mixed up a donut recipe and poured it into the forms and baked. Low-cal donuts, yay! They tasted just OK, were seriously lacking the deep-fried taste. But I can’t get with pots of boiling oil in the house. There’s a reason there are so many donut shops.
Unfortunately for my neighborhood, all 27,000 county residents have to do without any donut shop at all. It’s 50 miles to the nearest city with one. You can get donuts at 2 supermarkets and one lousy bakery, but they are not fresh and not good quality IMHO. Maybe there’s a business opportunity here; certainly we have enough cops and truckers to justify a specialty donut shop.
Really? Damn, I wish I could find some in my area. (Massachusetts) I mean when I tried googling on it google keeps giving me Dunkin Donuts. (Most of which truck their donuts in.) I mean they’re ok but not as good as having a donut that’s been made in the last 4 hours, which is what they used to do. (The only Dunkins I know that cooks their donuts on site is in Weymouth. Oh and some you’ll get a really stale one there.)
We have a Krispy Kreme bakery 5 minutes away - perfect when I want the doughnut fix.
But a doughnut machine?
Just what I need - a gazillion more calories at the press of a button. I’ll pass. Plus, I would probably do like I did with my bread machine - use it a lot at first and then, well…it went off to Goodwill.
We have Dunkin’ Donuts, Tim Horton’s, and there are donuts found in the bakery section of every grocery store. (Not including Freihoffers and Hostess, which look like donuts but don’t apply here.) Wegmans has the best donuts, so good they’re beyond donuts. There were Krispy Kremes up at the gas station for the longest time, don’t know if they’re still around. Donuts are everywhere!
Can this really be true? I think the only justification for a donut shop at all is that they make their own donuts on site (usually at about 3:00am, so they’ll be fresh for the earliest risers).
