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The Tao of donuts
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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.

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We probably can go round and round on this subject.  Before long, I'm my eyes will just glaze over.

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Well, I don't know for the United States, but like it was said in the other thread, here, in canada, we have Timbits from Tim Horton or Munchkins from Dunkin's Donut. They are little ball of dough that are in fact "donut's holes".

Yes, we do pay to buy holes

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oh, sorry, didn't read your post thoroughly. I must be tired! :-\ Well, before they sold them, it was probably thrown back like you said.  Then donuts were made of holes; interesting, lol.

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Actually, there never was any hole material.  The donuts are essentially extruded to shape, kind of like a bundt cake pan.

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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A book on my shelf is "The Tao of Motorcycling" (or was it the Zen of Motorcycling?) but the one i liked best was "The Tao of Winnie the Pooh." Anybody read it?

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Of course, it's a classic, but it's a bit overused:
"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.

TTFN

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Yes, and I am now looking for "Tao according to Piglet". It is said to exist, but hard to find.

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Sorry. It is NOT "Tao according to Piglet". It is "Tea according to Piglet".

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Thanks TheTick!

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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Ah, where would an engineer be without that free mug of Dunkin Donuts coffee and a donut or two or three to start the day!!

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As a test, I went to a not known donut shop and asked for a couple donut holes. They said they "don't have donut holes". I was puzzled when I saw your basic donut on the shelf! go figure

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This is intriguing stuff, so much that it forced me to visit the local baker.  Donuts being made of holes; seems similar to the argument of “hole flow theory” in electronics.

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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interesting...

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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MadMango, IRStuff,

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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I feel fat...

hee hee

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Simalar to donuts.
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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If a hole-shaped donut plus a bun-shaped donut gives a torus-shaped donut, then the hole cats like anti-matter.

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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Hi Pete,

Got yourself a wee dram? Have you? That's when the really deeeep thoughts come to me.

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Like I posted elsewhere, the dieters in our office liked my theory that if a doughnut hole is truly, by definition, a hole, therefore it must have no calories.

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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And, yes, there is a "Te of Piglet" or "Tao of Piglet" (I disremember which), which you might find if you surf E-Bay or Amazon Books.  Barnes & Noble Books also has a used bookstore on-line.

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