The Tao of donuts
The Tao of donuts
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Since donuts seem to be such a popular topic in the errors and omissions thread perhaps they deserve their very own. They already have their very own documentary on FoodTV that appears every few months.
Before Duncan Donuts started selling the holes as Donut Holes, what happend to the material removed to make the hole?
Do you think it got thrown back in with the next batch of dough?
If so, then a part of every donut is actually the hole from another donut.
Before Duncan Donuts started selling the holes as Donut Holes, what happend to the material removed to make the hole?
Do you think it got thrown back in with the next batch of dough?
If so, then a part of every donut is actually the hole from another donut.





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Yes, we do pay to buy holes
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That's why the marketing of donut "holes" is such marketing genius, since there was never any "holes" that got removed in the first place.
TTFN
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"Tao of Physics"
Tao of Surfing"
The latter is supposedly pretty good, written by a surfer, of course, who was working at Northrop Grumman as a techwriter while getting his master's degree in philosophy.
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I have read Tao of Poo in Swedish and the title has been a little bit changed. And "Te" in Te of Piglet actually is "Tea" in our language. This could merit a thread in itself. "Can you trust your own thinking when translating unknown texts?"
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IRstuff,
The local donut shop in my neighborhood has a machine that uses a steel rule die to cut the “torus” shape from a flattened sheet of dough. The “holes” are in fact recycled into the dough for that day’s batch of donuts, along with the excess dough left over. I guess the process depends on the scale of the operation.
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not that I understand why they do that, since I've seen a basic cake icing dispenser-like tool that extruded the donuts and they simply drop the extruded donuts directly into the oil.
TTFN
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You are both correct since there are two types of donuts with holes, Cake donuts which get the holes cut out with a tool similar to a cookie cutter ( but these can also be extruded with the dispenser) and Glazed donuts where the dough is pushed through a forming tool or as you said extruded.
Have Fun Get some Donuts
ietech
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hee hee
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I remember awhile back LifeSavers Candy mints marketed LifeSaver centers. Small little plugs they supposedly trepanned from the center of the LifeSaver. They were sold in a little box or tube like Tic-Tacs. I do'nt know if their still on the market.
pennpoint
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On the other hand if a hole-shaped donut plus a torus-shpaed donut gives a bun-shaped donut, then the hole just acts like donut matter.
Maybe with the right kind of anti-matter donuts, the more you eat the more weight you lose?
Donut or doughnut? It donut matter.
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Got yourself a wee dram? Have you? That's when the really deeeep thoughts come to me.
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Is a doughnut made entirely of leftover doughnut holes also non-caloric?
Would a low-calorie doughnut be the donut with the hole, versus a "full-calorie" doughnut, which might be one without the hole (i.e., filled)?
These truly are profound questions that will undoubtedly puzzle the universe for etermity.
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