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Why are doughnuts round?

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So what happens to all those donut holes that are cut out of the dough? Many people believe that those pieces of cut-out dough are what are used to make donut holes, which are those little round donut pieces that so many kids love to eat with milk. read more

Donuts are intended to be filled with cream, custard, jelly, or some other type of filling. This filling is usually done with a machine. The round shape was first developed so that the donut would not have any corners, so that, when the donut is filled, there are no weak points for the filling to spurt out from. read more

Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[3] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes. "Doughnut" is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US. read more

From: respree-ga on 20 Nov 2003 15: 58 PST I read somewhere that it has to do with the uniformity in cooking (i.e. so oil surrounds the doughnut evenly). read more

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