New (old) kitchen toys!

[hippywife]

Just got these in the mail. In the original boxes and the iron has the original pamphlet, very fragile and yellowed, with recipes.


http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=5829648

[housewolf]

1. Oh how fun! I want one!

I've often wondered if there was a way to make "regular" cake donuts at home! For a while I worked at a donut shop where they had a big version of that that mounted on the fryer and dropped the dough right into the fryer. I could never figure out how to get the round hole in the middle trying to make them at home. I'll have to keep my eyes open for one of those.

Congrats! You'll have a lot of fun with that. Hope you'll keep us up-to-date with your experiences, and I look forward to some of the great recipes I know you'll come up with.

:applause:

[grasswire]

2. when I was a little girl, there was a bakery in the neighborhood...

....with a crazy automated donut machine that automated every function of production. The dough would drop in the oil as you say, and then an arm would hook the donuts after they were turned and browned, and they would be deposited on a track where they would roll like wheels down to a sugaring place, get sugared up and then dropped on another track that would roll them down to a tray right in the front window. I loved to watch this gizmo -- it took up one whole wall of the shop. The cinnamon sugar cake donuts were the best ever.

I tried making donuts again last year. I don't have real good luck. A real deep fryer would probably help the home baker for this. I just used a dutch oven and thermometer. The teenagers loved them, but they weren't up to my expectations.

[hippywife]

6. Cake donuts are my favorite

especially the sour cream old fashioned kind, so that is where I will probably start. :bounce:

:hug: to you, B.

[grasswire]

3. Awesome!

last year I looked and looked for a donut cutter with no luck.

[housewolf]

4. Amazon has them

http://www.amazon.com/Donut-Cutter/dp/B00024WNB8
and cheap, too! 'Course when you add that shipping charge it makes a difference...

Williams-Sonoma also, though higer priced

Just as cheap at Kitchen Kaboodle
http://kitchenkaboodle.com/product_detail2.php?sku=14423!1057

They'll work for yeasted dough, but not for cake batter donuts.

The only thing I've been able to figure out for cake donuts is drop spoonfuls of batter into the hot oil and make something sort of like beignets out of it... but I haven't tried yet, just been thinking about it.

[hippywife]

7. Any kitchen specialty shops where you live?

I agree with housewolf that Amazon can get really outrageous with their shipping costs on inexpensive items like that. One reason I haven't ordered some things through there.

Could you use a set of biscuit cutters like this and do two cuts?:



http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=722147

Not sure how much the shipping would be, but at least you would have a full set of biscuit cutters for other purposes.

[Duer 157099]

5. When I stumbled upon my pineapple corer recently

it occurred to me that it would probably do fine for cutting donuts, although I haven't done it yet.

[Warpy]

8. My favorite was bought new 40 years ago

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Mouli-Shredder-made-in-France-5-blades_W0QQitemZ270538134655QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efd54547f

I'd still rather use it than the food processor when I've got half a pound of cheese or bunch of carrots to grate because the cleanup is faster and I get a choice of blades. I have the original tin model, not the later plastic one. I have to rebend it occasionally, but it works like new. I even store it in the original box, repaired multiple times with masking tape.

I might have it buried with me, I love it so much.