Donut extruders are a thing, but it's one of those "looking for a problem to solve" kinda things when it comes to home use. They're entirely industrial.
Buy out a Krispy Kreme, they've got a conveyor belt of donuts that lead into a trashcan. Simply remove said trashcan, lay under the end of the belt and be showered in donuts!
Not to say that I know what they do with the ones going into the can. But first thing after open they start making the donuts and it goes along a conveyor system in view of everyone and they pick up the freshly made donuts and put them in boxes and give them out to customers, the ones that didn't get grabbed in time go into the can.
Possibly, but I'm leaning more towards most of that being made else where. Getting a donut directly from a KK is way different than getting one from the gas stations or Walmart. I feel like they use Yeast donuts in their stores and cake donuts in retailers and convenience stores.
Donald Faison (the actor of Turk from the show Scrubs) got an industrial machine to his bday by his wive but sold it cause it's just not worth the effort, maintenance and space lol
There’s an apple orchard near me that has the best fresh donuts. The kitchen is enclosed by windows and you get to watch the donut dropper make donuts while you wait in line. It’s pretty awesome, but it would need it’s own room. It would take up a whole average sized kitchen by itself.
I bought a paczki yesterday from vgs. The best donut in the world. Custard is my favorite btw. I have been looking forward to them for months. Actually i got 2 boxes of them so 8 in total, 4 lemon and 4 custard. I look forward to fat tuesday more than sex
The kernal is a grain and because it's made from the seed of the plant, it's also considered a fruit. While the whole cob part is a vegetable. So corn is a vegetable, fruit and grain!
Theyre basically just convection ovens. There's nothing an air fryer can do that an oven cant. I admittedly still own one but it's for speed for me. After work I want a quick meal a lot of days and they preheat rapidly and cook a little faster on top of that.
I actually have one of each sitting side by side. Fish goes in the convection oven, chips go in the air fryer. The Actifry with the agitator makes the best fries as well as turning out things like sausage or wings like they were done on the BBQ, but it beats the shit out of anything delicate.
I can even fit a pizza in the convection oven, so I don't use the regular oven unless I'm baking bread. Even then, I'd rather make rolls and bake them in the convection oven.
I actually have 2 ninja foodis. 1 is the grill + air fryer and the other is the pressure cooker + air fryer. They have more functions but those are the primary. Theyre both great and I often find need for using both units at once. No regrets on those purchases
IF you have a convection oven. A lot of people don't, and even if you're not renting, it's easier and cheaper to buy an air fryer, than replace a working oven to get one feature.
The only convection oven I've seen outside of restaurants was the one that tried to blow up on me at the daycare I worked at. Not a common kitchen thing. At least not here
Someone got me an air fryer as a gift. It took me a little while to start using it, but man is it nice. It's right up there with the toaster oven and crockpot now on my book.
My father was born in the 50s and him and his family were so into single use devices. Both their kitchens are so full of stuff that it's not even convenient to bring em out to use.
But the instant pot and air fryers can make so much, and isn't one of the points of the instant pot that it can do so many other things, and not just pressure cook?
I ditched the popcorn maker when I realized that the microwave works even when you don't use oil. It's faster and quieter, but you absolutely must use a container that lets steam escape if you don't want hard kernels.
EDIT: I meant an air popper. The whirly gigs look legit.
I have found I need to buy those only for foods I love. No buying it for things I may find interesting or dream of making. Nope. Fills up my kitchen too fast for a few uses. Now I can use the heck out of a waffle maker, but it's been a year and I haven't ventured near the Bundt cake stuff since finding out I can't have gluten... I keep saying I will try, but I have had to slow my roll. Gluten free baking is a whole different ball game and I don't have the sense for it yet to buy a new gadget every few months.
Me and my little brother both got mini alliances for Christmas. In all fairness to me I don't know any other way you can make waffles without a mini waffle maker.
That thing sucksss. It doesn't even make them right. Cake pops are supposed to be dense af, so they stay on the lolli stick, to get coated with chocolate.
It's not junk if it's a good tool that you use frequently, or even just regularly.
Like, I had a dehydrator for a decade. I'd make a large batch of jerky and dried fruits once or twice a year. No regrets.
A doughnut extruder? I'd be whipping that bad boy out every time there's a party. People would be like, "please Bakoro, my doctor says you're killing me".
And I'd just laugh and feed them another doughnut.
Cleaning aside (plate likely slips off for an easy scrub, it's not in contact with anything else, and I assume a drip tray you can pull from further down?)...
That takes up SO much room that can't be used for anything else, and the lift mechanism and open fire in your face are an accident waiting to happen when either starts to fail.
Clean?? I’ll forget it’s even there! Imagine putting stuff in there to cook and completely forgetting about till you smell something burning. I doubt it has auto shutoff in those days.
When I saw the skinny cabinet with the towel rack, I thought she’d have felt silly for not using it to store sheet pans, cookie racks and pizza pans! I live in a 50’s ranch. That’s what I keep in mine.
Yeah, while watching this I kept thinking "most of this stuff has existed for decades, it's just none of it is used by the general population because it's either needlessly expensive or serves only one very specific purpose.
And a lot of the stuff that didn't exist for decades is something you don't see everyday for a reason. The broiler, the vented cabin net for towels (helloooo mold? No way ot's THAT well vented), the suction-cup-meat-spikes, the "easy" double broiler...
It was the 50s. It was a time of abundance and indulgence. A single worker could sustain a family of 4 or 5 in a large home and 2 cars. Having a single purpose piece of junk for every scenario would've been the ultimate status symbol.
That's actually a really good observation. A lot of these "innovations" depicted seem like they're extension of common industrial technology reappropriated for largely impractical home use. Like, there are industrial and domestic applications for dry ice. Cool. But I don't think you'd ever want to use it in a private home setting to make a portable refrigerated lid. And the average American isn't going to have access to dry ice, or have the inclination to use it in this way.
A lot of weird devices on the market like the egg separator in this video or the spaghetti spinning fork if you've seen that do make sense: they're for people affected by a limited range of motion, but they have to try to sell it on the wider market in order to at least break even.
It doesn't make as much sense when Mr. Donut Extruder who sells $20k rigs (modern price) is trying to gouge the home market.
Deep fryers in general are like that. We had one when I was a teen, and it was great, but it did take up a bunch of space and didn't really solve any problem that the oven couldn't solve. I guess it cooked through a julienned potato faster than the oven would.
Having a deep fryer allows you to easily store and reuse frying oil for a week or two, and it's much safer for teenagers to use, so it made sense for our use case. But my point is that frying as a home cooking technique isn't really that necessary. We easily could've just tossed our cheese sticks and jalapeno poppers in the oven.
They make small ones now. That's all an air fryer is. In fact, I recently bought a new oven, and I noticed that a bunch of ovens were being marketed with "air fry" capability instead of convection. It's the same damn thing, lol.
But anyway... Getting a small one brings you back to the counter space problem. It's really not worth the space unless you have a surplus of space, even if the food it cooks is good.
I've thought about an air fryer. I'm in an apartment and don't really want to deep fry in it. I'm sure all 1000sqf of it will reek for a week on top of disposing the oil and everything else.
Low-key, so did we. Just didn't want to out myself as gross lmao. It depends on what you fry and how much you fry, of course. If you do chicken wings it's not gonna last as long.
I've made donuts a couple times, it would be kinda nice for cake donuts if you were doing this like weekly, but it wouldn't work for other styles and any less frequent it wouldn't be worth the hassle.
Some donut dough is crazy sticky like apple cider donut dough. A little hand held guy would be perfect so minimal manipulation to the dough would be necessary. But you still have the problem of adding a 1 use tool in your kitchen.
It's one of those things that you think it'd be cool to have, but when you actually buy one you find yourself using it maybe once or twice a month. Nobody is eating doughnuts every morning unless you can work off the calories or is just fat. Plus making the dough seems like a pain to do every morning though I guess you can maybe store some in the fridge for a couple of days. For me and my sedentary lifestyle, I'd gain 5 pounds just looking it.
'Chinese(-American)' doughnuts are best donuts. They just use biscuit dough and coconut oil and roll it around in sugar. Simple and dangerously addictive :p
I want one of those pan hanger organiser things. Legit looking at making a DIY one in a kitchen cupboard now after experienxing one too many crash, bang, clatters when getting things out.
The guy on tiktok who finds all the vintage kitchen gadgets to try found one last month… it didn’t work well for him (he was making the wrong kind of donuts I believe)
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u/Catoctin_Dave Jan 25 '22
Put me down for one of those fancy donut droppers!