A fresh KK with a cup of coffee is my idea of heaven. The first KK in Seoul opened a couple years ago and the line was at least a block long. In Korea they give you free doughnuts if you’re waiting in line! One of the few things I miss about Seoul.
They’re…acceptable if they’re hot. Barely. If no other donuts are available. Cold, they’re just awful.
My sister had, I kid you not, a Krispy Kreme wedding cake. That is, instead of a wedding cake she had a giant platter of Krispy Kreme donuts. Which were obviously cold by the time we all got to the reception. I love my sister and her irreverence and her taste for kitsch, but sometimes I just don’t know what she’s thinking.
KK straight off the line is incredible. Count me in. Warm, sugary, melts in your mouth; what more could you ask for?
Thank goodness we don’t have them where I live - I have them as treats when I travel to enlightened destinations…
I would ask for a good flavor. I need more than sugar+warm. (And I am the one who puts like 7 sugars in a cup of coffee and eats frosting out of the can. I likes me some sugar.) The DD honey dipped, which are the same “kind” of donut, are much better because (to me) they taste better.
I can take or leave, and will probably leave, doughnuts more often than not. But I make an exception for fresh, warm Krispy Kremes. Maybe it is a question of individual locations practices with grease freshness and temperature. Around here the fresh, warm ones are incredibly delicious.
Note: Anyone who conflates doughnuts with either profiteroles or wedding cake just might be a redneck…
They do that here in Chicago, too. I can’t remember the last time I actually paid for a Krispy Kreme donut. Like I said, I go in there occasionally to grab a coffee, and I always end up with a free donut as a bonus.
Free Krispy Kreme? I can feel my eyes glazing over like donuts…
Must. Move. To. Chicago.
My brother (who used to work at Krispy Kreme) says that it’s not just a Chicago thing from his understanding, but it’s usually during when the “Fresh Donuts Now” sign is lit.
According to this reference, it’s done on a store-by-store basis.
Here in bonnie Scotland it’s a good deal more difficult to get one’s hands on the divine KK goodness. I always get some when I take a trip to London.
A free Krispy Kreme is unheard of…
No one’s mentioned the coffee? It’s overheated sock water.
I like KK now and then but they’re nowhere near as satisfying as the bakery made donuts I grew up on. That goes for yeast ring or cake (cake are my faves - even KK makes a pretty good cake. Try the blueberry).
Standard donuts are great. Dunkin’ is great. But Krispy Kreme, straight from the machine but before they go through the sugar waterfall (yes, the counterperson will grab them before the sugaring) are ambrosia. Sweet fried soft hot dough. Not cancerously sweet, like after the sugar waterfall. Just perfect.
Joe
I have eaten my share of donuts in my day. Probably your share, too.
KK glazed (fresh) are very good. I like the pumpkin donuts but they don’t have them all the time. The devil’s food glazed are good if they are fresh. They are hideous if they are the slightest bit stale.
DD’s devil’s food are really good. Their glazed, not so much.
One thing I can say for sure is that the mom and pop donut shops are almost always better then chain donut shops.
This, I may have to try.
I was pretty impressed when they handed me a hot donut fresh off the… thing. Machine. I tend to be okay with sweet and this was pretty damn sweet. They’re not the worst, I wouldn’t go out of my way for them, but my old coworkers seemed to like them.
Better than all by far are Round Rock Donuts, which you can’t get outside the Austin/Round Rock area. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, I don’t know what they do to them. Possibly powdered fairy dust. They’re just amazing.
Oh but they do (as others have pointed out). Think of the difference between a warm, fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookie, and a Chips-Ahoy. As my sister says, HOT Krispy Kreme donuts are the perfect blend of fat and sugar. Even heating one in the microwave for a few seconds is better than eating them cold as they are too sweet and squishy that way. (When they’re fresh they’re not squishy, but rather puffs of melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness.)
Against. The glaze is sickening.
I like a hot KK doughnut, partial to the chocolate glazed as a treat. They’re good and when I want a doughnut they are what I think of. They’re also open late here which always always is a plus in my book. The service is never bad either.
DD on the other hand, it seems they are incapable of making a product that doesn’t taste stale. Also, while I’ve heard others complain endlessly about how ‘greasy’ KK doughnuts taste, whenever I look at a DD they seem covered in this industrial strength, gluey shortening/glaze that just coats the inside of your mouth. They’re also dry as a bone mostly.
I used to think that KK were pretty good. Not the manna from Heaven that some made them out to be, but pretty good. I’ve kind of lost my taste for them over the years, though. We used to have them every Sunday when I was younger. Where I live now, there aren’t any chain shops like KK or DD, nor are there any good bakeries nearby, either.
That’s why I started making my own doughnuts in the deep fryer. Oh, man. Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like a homemade doughnut that’s so hot and fresh you need to eat it with a fork. Everything else seems stale in comparison.
Yea but if you don’t like to eat the cookies when they are cold, chances are you won’t be a big fan when they are warm. they may be a perfect blent of fat and sugar for you, but they are way too sweet for me.
DD was definitely better when they made their doughnuts fresh. I’d take a local bakery over DD any day. If I see another Krispy Kreme at the right time I will try to order a donut before it goes under that waterfall of sugar. I’d be interested to find out if I like them.
I do like the KK glazed. But I like the DD crullers.