• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

When is a donut a donut?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

What is required for a pastry to be called a donut?

  • Only all fried pastries are donuts.

  • Only all pastries with an "O" shape are donuts.

  • Only all fried pastries with an "O" shape are donuts.

  • Donut cannot be quanitified, you feel it when you see it.

Results are only viewable after voting.
The only donut that I will recognize is the "cake-style" donut. Your typical Krispy Kremes are glazed sweet dough fashioned in a circle with a hole. I HATE raised donuts. Nobody likes em! They always are the last donuts remaining and the first to go are teh significantly more substantial cake donuts.

Note:

A raised donut is fried "Dough" essentially sweet bread.

A cake donut is fried "Cake" essentially fried fucking cake. Case closed - cake wins, raised loses. All those who enjoy raised donuts suck.
 
Last edited:
jupiter57 said:
NO.
A doughnut is round with a hole in the middle, deep fried.(Unless it's a "Creme Filled" or "Jelly "doughnut", which is technically a Creme or Jelly Filled Pastry)
A Long John is a rectangular, deep fried pastry, usually filled & topped.
The list goes on.
All pastries have names. Learn them & use them.:biggrin:
Click to expand...

A pastry should contain pastry in some form. A doughnut is not a pastry.
 
guyver01 said:
not always

Donut-Maker-WDM-06-.jpg


i want one of these!
NOST-0100.jpg
Click to expand...

i want one too!

http://www.amazon.com/Nostalgia-Electrics-MDF-200-Automatic-Factory/dp/B005Q8XBRK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320701478&sr=8-1

$123 from amazon!
 
There is not a clear answer, seems to be some dispute as to what makes a donut a donut. I added a poll with the common answers
 
DrPizza said:
Tim Horton's and Krispy Kreme are so over-rated it's ridiculous. Else all the other places that make doughnuts around you guys absolutely suck. I got a small package of day old doughnuts from a grocery store on my way to Buffalo a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking "omg, these are awesome!" If the place wasn't 25 miles away, I'd get doughnuts from there every other weekend.
Click to expand...

There used to be an actual Krispy Kreme shop where I lived and the ones made at the shop itself were far better than the ones you get in regular stores.

That said there is an amazing local place that sells doughnuts. Open 24 hours, cheap and firendly. Its a good thing its not on my way to work otherwise I would be in trouble.
 
shortylickens said:
What if they had vanilla? Or powdered sugar?
Wouldnt it be easier to call the device what it is, rather that what it could be?
Click to expand...

Never in 31 years have I seen one that wasn't chocolate or maple. Besides, we in the West do call it what it is...

Poll answer: Doughnuts are like porn, you know it when you see it but you can't describe it.
 
DrPizza said:
Tim Horton's and Krispy Kreme are so over-rated it's ridiculous. Else all the other places that make doughnuts around you guys absolutely suck. I got a small package of day old doughnuts from a grocery store on my way to Buffalo a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking "omg, these are awesome!" If the place wasn't 25 miles away, I'd get doughnuts from there every other weekend.
Click to expand...

We have one close by, it always smells amazing as you drive by but IMO their donuts are way to sweet and doughy, a small place called Java Junction has 10X better that KK or DD, the place is always packed..
 
I take issue with those who answer "Only all fried pastries with an "O" shape are donuts. "

A jelly donut is not a donut? Are you kidding me?

Those who voted for 'you know when you see it' are taking a copout. The point of this thread is to identify a definition. I shouldn't have even put that option up there.

Websters:

dough·nut
noun \-(&#716😉nət\
Definition of DOUGHNUT
1
: a small usually ring-shaped cake fried in fat
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top