Nuts about doughnuts
May 27, 2016 3:09 PM Subscribe
Donuts + ice cream + blender = mmmmmmmmmm
posted by Thorzdad at 3:23 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 3:23 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
Oxymoronic
posted by HuronBob at 3:47 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by HuronBob at 3:47 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
What kind of heathen has leftover doughnuts? This is an outrage!
TFA suggests "as if". I too saw this as a fanciful notion though if you are in a strange workplace where donuts come and cannot be disposed of, perhaps the occasional lazy potluck bring, there's always Those Few left over. They tend to be white frosting cake, an old-fashioned and 2/3rds an apple fritter with a chunk hewn off, from memory. Also that croissant that turned out not to be filled with chocolate sawn in half, both pieces left.
Dozens gonna dozen, man.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:48 PM on May 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
TFA suggests "as if". I too saw this as a fanciful notion though if you are in a strange workplace where donuts come and cannot be disposed of, perhaps the occasional lazy potluck bring, there's always Those Few left over. They tend to be white frosting cake, an old-fashioned and 2/3rds an apple fritter with a chunk hewn off, from memory. Also that croissant that turned out not to be filled with chocolate sawn in half, both pieces left.
Dozens gonna dozen, man.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:48 PM on May 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
(In DuhMerica, of course -- I am sure local variations of this problem exist)
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:50 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:50 PM on May 27, 2016
I'm disappointed this isn't actually a Toast article hilariously making fun of my mental illnesses.
posted by Space Coyote at 3:51 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Space Coyote at 3:51 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
What's a 'doughnut'? I've never seen it spelt that way.
posted by adept256 at 4:06 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by adept256 at 4:06 PM on May 27, 2016
Ingredients:
1 stale doughnut
1 cup strong coffee, chicory optional
1. Dunk
2. Nom
3. Repeat
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:18 PM on May 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
1 stale doughnut
1 cup strong coffee, chicory optional
1. Dunk
2. Nom
3. Repeat
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:18 PM on May 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
People this doughnuts that are not raptured.
posted by srboisvert at 4:27 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by srboisvert at 4:27 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
I remain proud of this contribution to MetaFilter's culinary repertoire-- Bundt Cake Donut Ring Filled with Cheesecake Batter and Glazed in Chocolate--with which jbickers won a contest that stipulated a cake made from two dozen donuts. Jbickers' pictures provided here. There are many delicious-sounding suggestions in that thread. We're donuts-as-baking-ingredient trendsetters, y'all.
posted by carmicha at 4:54 PM on May 27, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by carmicha at 4:54 PM on May 27, 2016 [5 favorites]
You guys with no experience with there being leftover donuts must exist in parts of the US where coworkers and vendors don't routinely bring in too many donuts and/or areas where bad donuts that don't immediately taste like sugar dipped cardboard sometime after 2 hours have passed (for crap like Krispy Kreme this shelf life seems to be 3 minutes after you leave the store).
Good high quality donuts (especially cake based ones) often have moderately decent shelf life but the scores of owner-operated donut shops that churn out endless supplies of bad glazed and chocolate covered donuts often seem to have a expiration date of maybe 10 minutes after you get to the office.
posted by vuron at 5:29 PM on May 27, 2016 [7 favorites]
Good high quality donuts (especially cake based ones) often have moderately decent shelf life but the scores of owner-operated donut shops that churn out endless supplies of bad glazed and chocolate covered donuts often seem to have a expiration date of maybe 10 minutes after you get to the office.
posted by vuron at 5:29 PM on May 27, 2016 [7 favorites]
In theory, my doughnut french toast casserole is made with leftover doughnuts. In practice, when I buy doughnuts to make doughnut french toast casserole, I have to buy a couple extra for me to nom so that there are still doughnuts left to make doughnut french toast casserole with.
Recipe for doughnut french toast casserole:
Take your favourite recipe for baked french toast, in place of half of whatever bread it calls for, use cut up doughnuts. Really dense yeasty ones like apple fritters and cakey ones like sour cream doughnuts work better than lofty light ones like Krispy Kremes.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:28 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Recipe for doughnut french toast casserole:
Take your favourite recipe for baked french toast, in place of half of whatever bread it calls for, use cut up doughnuts. Really dense yeasty ones like apple fritters and cakey ones like sour cream doughnuts work better than lofty light ones like Krispy Kremes.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:28 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
I wonder what would happen if you steamed a donut?
posted by storybored at 6:53 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by storybored at 6:53 PM on May 27, 2016
These days I only wanna eat maple glazed doughnuts. I had one the other day and wanted to eat another one the second I had finished eating. WTF? Luckily, I had only bought one. Unluckily, I'm not going to buy another one because what's the point? Apparently maple-glazed doughnuts are like crack to me. I can't get enough. RIP, former occasional doughnut-eating self. I'm sad.
posted by Bella Donna at 6:56 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by Bella Donna at 6:56 PM on May 27, 2016
My not so secret shame is when I drive all the way to Tacoma to get Krispy Kreme and then bring them home so I can grill up some Luthers.
posted by deadaluspark at 7:16 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by deadaluspark at 7:16 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I have never seen a leftover donut. Well OK I have seen a few, but in every case I immediately ate them.
posted by w0mbat at 8:17 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by w0mbat at 8:17 PM on May 27, 2016
Luther burgers...
🎤I've been alone with you inside my mind.
And in my dreams, you've touched my lips
A thousand times.
posted by carmicha at 9:02 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
🎤I've been alone with you inside my mind.
And in my dreams, you've touched my lips
A thousand times.
posted by carmicha at 9:02 PM on May 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
(Please note that the first line of TFA includes a "who has leftover donuts!?" joke.)
posted by HeroZero at 5:29 AM on May 28, 2016
posted by HeroZero at 5:29 AM on May 28, 2016
I don't know where this memory comes from, but like jacquilynne said upthread I have a notion for leftover donut bread pudding, I've certainly never made it but that is the thing that pops into my head when I hear leftover donuts. I want to think it's from Nigella Lawson.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 8:06 AM on May 28, 2016
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 8:06 AM on May 28, 2016
people who spell donut as "doughnut" are simply not to be trusted
posted by poffin boffin at 10:40 AM on May 28, 2016
posted by poffin boffin at 10:40 AM on May 28, 2016
who knows what other forms of gross excess they may be partial to
posted by poffin boffin at 10:41 AM on May 28, 2016
posted by poffin boffin at 10:41 AM on May 28, 2016
It was many years before I could face the prospect of eating a doughnut in any form - be it fresh, reconstructed, or deconstructed - after that summer I worked in a grocery store bakery, slaving over the doughnut fryer from 3 to 6 a.m. every day, flipping the little bastards over with my chopsticks like bloated corpses in the river. Time to make the dougnuts. I made the doughnuts.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:52 AM on May 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:52 AM on May 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
What's a 'doughnut'? I've never seen it spelt that way.
Canadian and British spelling. They are, after all, made of dough, not do. (Although some are apparently made of doo-doo.)
people who spell donut as "doughnut" are simply not to be trusted
who knows what other forms of gross excess they may be partial to
we like u's
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:25 AM on May 28, 2016
Canadian and British spelling. They are, after all, made of dough, not do. (Although some are apparently made of doo-doo.)
people who spell donut as "doughnut" are simply not to be trusted
who knows what other forms of gross excess they may be partial to
we like u's
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:25 AM on May 28, 2016
Although some are apparently made of doo-doo.
You've obviously been to Tim Hortons recently.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:40 AM on May 28, 2016
You've obviously been to Tim Hortons recently.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:40 AM on May 28, 2016
God no. At least, not for doughnuts. Even the sour cream glazed, my old frenemy, has gone downhill. And they put peanuts or hazelnuts on almost every other damn thing.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:52 AM on May 28, 2016
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:52 AM on May 28, 2016
This article should be a single sentence: bread pudding.
I don't know why you would have any other conversation about it.
posted by Lyn Never at 11:56 AM on May 28, 2016
I don't know why you would have any other conversation about it.
posted by Lyn Never at 11:56 AM on May 28, 2016
"Canadian and British spelling."
Doughnut is still the more common spelling in American English, but donut is widespread. However, it's unusual outside the US ... but spelt is unusual in the US, so I question your assumption that adept256 is American. I can't figure out who would be unfamiliar with doughnut while also using spelt.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:57 AM on May 28, 2016
Doughnut is still the more common spelling in American English, but donut is widespread. However, it's unusual outside the US ... but spelt is unusual in the US, so I question your assumption that adept256 is American. I can't figure out who would be unfamiliar with doughnut while also using spelt.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:57 AM on May 28, 2016
I made no such assumption. I only answered who spells doughnut correctly :P
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:04 PM on May 28, 2016
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:04 PM on May 28, 2016
Time to make the dougnuts. I made the doughnuts.
I suppose my experience was different since I worked at a European bakery in the US. We did a lot of fancy donuts, and we actually mostly did the right kind of donuts, cake donuts.
I would always save the last cake donut to come out of the hopper for myself, because it would always be small and malformed. Yum.
I kind of miss frying donuts. I was very good at it.
posted by deadaluspark at 2:50 PM on May 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
I suppose my experience was different since I worked at a European bakery in the US. We did a lot of fancy donuts, and we actually mostly did the right kind of donuts, cake donuts.
I would always save the last cake donut to come out of the hopper for myself, because it would always be small and malformed. Yum.
I kind of miss frying donuts. I was very good at it.
posted by deadaluspark at 2:50 PM on May 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
Just because... before and after, squash doughnut + doughnut hole with pickled currants, brown butter caramel, and whiskey sabayon. Served for a prix fixe dinner; chef's recipe not mine. (Sorry for the poopy image quality).
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 3:10 PM on May 28, 2016
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 3:10 PM on May 28, 2016
I suppose my experience was different since I worked at a European bakery in the US. We did a lot of fancy donuts, and we actually mostly did the right kind of donuts, cake donuts.
Yes, I think you're right. Even the hours would have been more bearable if it had been a better workplace with a higher quality product.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:44 PM on May 28, 2016
Yes, I think you're right. Even the hours would have been more bearable if it had been a better workplace with a higher quality product.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:44 PM on May 28, 2016
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