Neither! Donuts are revolting. The smell of donuts frying is awful. I can't even walk near a donutshop! NoNoNoNoNO! I mean...I don't like deep fried food in general but that weird combination of sugar and flour frying in fat is particularly revolting. Perhaps because I didn't grow up with them or because it's genetic....I don't know but ....no thank you!
Whenever there was a box of doughnuts at work, the cake doughnuts were always last to be eaten, if they were eaten at all. Poor lonely little cake doughnuts didn't feel the love. As a Californian, I do feel cheated that we don't have the seasonal Cider Doughnuts that I've been hearing about over the last few years because I love Spiced Apple Cider! The doughnuts must be a real treat! P.S. I thought that the coffee glaze in the video was a classic maple glaze at first.
Yeasted! (Feel free to count my vote more than once.) I never had a deep love of Dunkin’ (grew up with these) or donuts in general until having Krispy Kreme. It used to be that KrispyK turned on the HOT sign and would even sometimes give you a free fresh donut right out of the glaze! Nothing like it. ❤️ BUT ALSO…if you have the creme filled, that filling is currently the closest thing I’ve tasted to the real Hostess filling in the 70’s (these days Hostess filling is some kind of nasty lard). So the filly KrispyK’s are what provide childhood memories…and THAT is my emotional support ring!
9:30 I remember following a Japanese bread dough recipe for the first time and adding the softened butter. The instructions literally said, "It's gonna look like you messed up. It's gonna look unrecoverable. This is PERFECTLY NORMAL, KEEP KNEADING." And the writer was right, the bread was delicious, albeit exhausting to make.
I was a Donut Fryer for over 10 years and I never got tired of donuts but can I really say which is my favorite donut: cake or yeast? No, some days I want a soft yummy cake donut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles and some days I crave a glazed fluffy yeast donut. I love Both! Sorry Dan, I can’t decide. But sometimes I really want a yeast donut with Bavarian cream filling and chocolate icing .
If I’m at an old fashioned doughnut place, a sour cream old fashioned cake doughnut is perfection itself. On the other hand, a fresh yeasted maple dip is pretty much guaranteed to calm me down from any problem.
Yeasted emotional support rings all the way. I had a similar experience as a child going to Krispy Kreme for the first time and seeing the massive doughnut machine pump out freshly made batches. Changed my life forever.
@@mrscms831 wow so glad to see someone else remembers this! I, too, recall the love of my local Krispy Kreme… the best donuts around. And that hot, fresh, free bonus donut… man, Nothing compares to that
I grew up with Krispy Kreme, so that's just what I thought all donuts were like. When I grew up and had Dunkin Donuts for the first time, I wondered who would debase themselves enough to eat those sad, dry rings. Yeasted donuts all day long.
Dan, please don't EVER stop making your videos. I literally laugh outloud and always learn great cooking technique. You are just the best. And yes, yeasted are the best too!
Team Yeasted here! Wonderful childhood memory was when Mom, coming home from night shift nurse at IU Med center, would stop at the famous Long's Bakery in Indianapolis for a dozen hot, fresh glazed. They would still be warm when she got home and woke me up for school. KKs are greasy gut bombs by comparison! 😋🤤
Love a fresh cake donut with specks of nutmeg. I'm a West Coast girl and our yeast donuts are high and fluffy, and that is delicious! Krispy Kreme donuts are dense and they train the staff to pull them out before a white ring forms. Not a fan. We still have a few Winchell's here and they have yeast donuts that are very high and fluffy. Yummy!
Dan, We all ❤ you. Oh my goodness, your segments are so educational, entertaining and endearing. I enjoy every minute of your videos, the subtle humor and charisma are perfect. 👌 We're so happy you're here!
❤️My Polish grandma ❤ was a baker and baked every day. Her specialty was yeasted donuts filled with prune filling and rolled in granulated sugar. Heaven on earth! My vote is yeasted always!
I prefer the box in front of me…. But having grown up in NY with Dunkin’ Donuts then tried Krispy as an adult, Krispy Kreme was life changing. I don’t think I’ll be able to end the day without buying a dozen after watching this video- Thanks Dan!!!
A doughnut is a donut is a doughnut no matter how it's spelt. And love both caked and yeasted. Cinnamon'ed, glazed, filled - love them all except for sprinkled. Also love fritters - apple, peach, mango, pineapple, etc. Doughnuts/fritters over cake any day as they're my little piece of heaven, oh, and pie! Cheers. Note: doughnut holes in Canada are called TimBits and often just buy those on their own; easier to bring to meetings - a party pack or two, no less.
OK, I'm old! Remember Spudnuts? They were made with potato flour and sold door to door. They were amazing!! Never been anything to beat them. I see you can still find recipes or buy them on Amazon... For today's donuts, I'll take cake over yeast, except for cream filled ones! Great episode! Thanks.
I grew up in a small PA city that had a local doughnut bakery. While glazed were really good, nothing topped the powdered sugar ones (never cinnamon). These were all yeasted. For fastnacht day, my mother and sisters made the dough while I got to cut them out (I was many years younger than my siblings) and pour the sugar into a bag and shake to coat the doughnuts completely. If I grabbed some that were not yet room temperature, they would come out as a combination of powdered and glazed. My mom did not like them that way but my dad and younger sister both did, me too. My vote: yeasted.
If I could only have one type... It would be cake. Many years ago, the culinary program at a college I attended set up a donut fry in a campus parking lot on the last day of Spring quarter. I was on my way home when I smelled the unmistakable aroma of fried dough. Drawn by a force beyond my control, I found myself in the queue to buy a bag of fresh donuts. I purchased a half-dozen piping hot cake donuts, and consumed them all before completing the one mile walk home. I remember it like it was yesterday!
Yeasted only!!! The original glazed fresh hot off the line at Krispy Kreme is possibly the most amazing bite of sweet you'll ever have in your life! They are ethereal.
Worked at a doughnut shop in college. There are no better donuts than fresh donuts. That's the "magic" of Krispy Kreme, they're pumping out fresh ones all day. Try a day old KK, and it's usually worse than one sold in a traditional shop. My favorite: apple fritters. So many actually crispy bits, while still having the chew of a yeasted doughnut.
I'd rather eat a day old krispy kreme than a day old traditional shop cake donut, so freshness is not the be-all and end-all. Any who, my vote is for yeasted
@@Cyrribrae Same, but I think they were comparing a day old krispy kreme to a freshly baked donut from a regular donut shop? which was a little weird as a comparison, but I understand what they are trying to say, freshness is going to play a factor, they just used a poor example that made it seem like it was the only factor
Oh yeah. Fresh of either is miles better than day-old, but a day-old cake donut is still good dunked if it hasn’t been ruined by being smothered in frosting, whereas a Krispy Kreme of any age on which the glaze is no longer crisp is worthless. Slimy donuts are just tragic.
Honestly, I have no preference. I love both kinds. After giving it some thought, I do tend to eat the yeasted variety more often, so maybe that's a better qualifier. 🙂
I grew up with my grandmother's cake donuts, so they are the One True Donut. That said, I won't turn up my nose if someone wants to make me yeasted donuts. 😉
My sister became best friends with the local, late night donut maker in college. Changed our lives for a little while, the extra 'college 15' changed it back! But, yeasted gets my vote every day! Love your videos!
Yeasted! When I was a Beaumont, Texas teenager in the '50's, our dating ritual was to attend the 'picture show' , and then after the movie, we would stop by a wonderful family owned donut shop. Right before our eyes, they fried the donuts, dipped it in a marvelous sugar coating, and then served the donut to you -- piping hot. I swear if I could take a Krispy Kreme donuts back in time to that little family owned shop to compare the donuts from my past to the Krispy Kreme of today, they would have the very same taste and texture.
I'm a cake donuts gal. I don't mind yeasted donuts, but they're a little too cloyingly sweet for my taste. The full-bodied texture of the cake variety provides a more balanced counterpart to the sweet frosting/topping. My absolute favorite cake donuts are the apple cider donuts you find at farm stands this time of the year -- it's like biting into a sweet cinnamon-y pillow!
I made a plan with my bff to hit up the farm with the best pumpkin patch, draft horses, and apple cider donuts this year. I am so ready for that deliciousness!
Yeasted are usually just bland on their own. It's the using that makes them sweet. If anything, cake is sweeter, as it usually has sugar in the batter, whereas yeasted don't have much if any.
I once took a tour of a Krispy Kreme kitchen. We got to sample glazed donuts fresh from the glazing machine. Still warm. OMG!! Those things are more addictive than crack!
While I like yeasted doughnuts just fine, almost any cake doughnut beats any yeasted one, especially sour-cream or old-fashioned glazed, but for a true mouth frenzy I seek out a walnut cruller. Orange crullers are #2.
Really dating myself here! Many, many years ago we lived in Long Beach, California and I can remember staying out late (newly married) and going to Winchel's Donuts where you could get a plate of assorted donuts for a $1.00 or so. Not sure what they were but the more I think about it they might have been cake. So much fun, sitting in a shop eating donuts, drinking coffee and having a good time in the wee hours of the morning. This was in the middle 60's.
Krispy Kreme produces one of the best mass produced fresh chain product. The problem with the donuts is how quickly they become stale and the fact that kk stays the same consistency is incredible
I lean heavily towards yeasted, especially when picking up donuts, BUT... there's something quite comforting about a homemade cakey donut, with the sugar and cinnamon coat
Cake, cake, and cake. Preferably from Dunkin Donuts. I don't get the Krispy Kreme thing... crazy, crazy sweet 😝. Cake donuts: crunchy on the outside, satisfying on the inside - tender with just a hint of sweetness and richness from the frying. A great way to start the day. 😇
A light yeasted donut is great when the weather is warm, maybe with a glass of cold milk. When the weather cools down, freshly made apple orchard cake donuts and hot mulled cider is a great combination.
I think for me it depends...if it's a donut shop, I love a glazed yeasted donut. However, if I get to have a hot donut fresh out of the fryer, I'd go for a cake donut with cinnamon sugar. In my hometown, the local county fair has a donut booth that serves hot donuts made to order. Fair donuts do not have a long shelf life (they turn into oily lumps once cooled), but man, they are WONDERFUL hot.
That oil solidifying powder is amazing. (I probably still won't fry things though.) I like yeasted donuts best when they're super fresh, but otherwise I like a glazed chocolate cake donut.
I'm definitely a cake donuts person. Chocolate cake and blueberry cake donuts are my top two, for sure. However, I'd be lying if I said I'd ever turned my nose up at a good yeast donut. Maple glaze yeast donuts get my number 3 spot. Donuts are just good.
yeasted...however, when i was 18 in 1978 I worked in a bakery making donuts and a good, hot buttermilk cake donut is to die for...I'll never forget cranking the donut maker for the cake donuts (it was batter not dough), and flipping cake and yeast with drum sticks over a giant kettle of hot oil
While yeasted (Krispy Kreme) doughnuts are pretty good, especially custard filled, I really prefer a plain cake doughnut dunked in my coffee. Chocolate iced cake doughnuts are pretty darn good too. Krispy Kreme used to make a devil's food doughnut years ago that was awesome but sadly its long gone. Cake for me, Dan. Sorry.
Yeasted all the way! Have been known to turn down office donuts if they were all cake. My choice of yeasted doughnuts comes from being half-Polish living near Hamtramck, Michigan and celebrating Fat Tuesday with raspberry or prune (plum jam for the faint of heart) filled yeast paczki…especially from New Palace Bakery.
I grew up in the Houston area. That means I’m a Shipley’s donuts man. A yeasted donut that especially when fresh and hot is food nirvana. They are more substantial than Kristy Kremes. Of course, they do cake donuts too. And Kolaches, which are another breakfast option that’s endemic to Texas. Their’s aren’t the best, but they are serviceable. Without regard, give me a Shipleys any day. I’m aware there are other local and regional options across the nation. Randy’s in LA for instance. Their hot donuts ain’t bad either.
Oh, Kolaches.... I occasionally make them my self. But only when I am going to have a crowd for brunch. Lead me not into temptation... I can find it all by myself...
B&B Donuts on lower Westheimer has wonderful blueberry cake & maple cake donuts to chase down their boudin kolaches. Pre-Covid days, they would bag up some gratis donut holes [cake] with your breakfast order.
I like Shipley, but being from Dallas I grew up on Southern Maid more. They are the best (to me). I was probably 18 or 19 before Shipley came to my neighborhood. I really never cared for Krispy Kreme. Too much lard, maybe? 😎
Winchell''s is what we grew up with out west,when Dunkin and Kreme came to Vegas I've never been so disappointed...Yeast for glazed and Cake for chocolate 🍩
I watched your video again, and the donuts you're making seem to be more like cake than the squishy ones I like best. The best donut texture IMO is a french donut still hot from frying (the ones with a ribbed exterior). They are so full of air you can compress them into a very small glob. I have no idea whether the really soft ones like Boston creams are cake or yeast, but they are the type I prefer along with the french ones.
Yeasted donuts 🍩 aka Pillows of heaven. Having said that, I would never refuse a cake donut and hurt the person’s feelings.😄 Our whole family loves your educational, smart, and funny videos. We learn and laugh along the way. Please keep ‘em coming!
omg....my aunt used to visit and always brought us glazed, chocolate glazed, and maple glazed (yeast!) donuts from a shop in Lodi, Wisconsin. Light, airy, sweet....HEAVEN with a hole in the middle! Though I DO love me a plain donut to dunk into coffee!
I'm glad to see the cake donuts that are actually being rolled out. A lot of commercial cake donuts these days are extruded. On the rare occasion Donuts are made on one of those competition shows the judge will tell people the difference between cake and yeast is the at the cake ones are extruded which is not always the case. I like both types of donuts and I actually like what chocolate glaze on a cake donut.
My favorite is a specific type of cake donut, sometimes called and Old Fashioned, and sometimes, a Sour Cream donut. These donuts sort of burst along the upper edge, creating a bit of extra crunchy crust that I love a lot. Second to those are crullers, which are yeast donuts. After that, my third favorite is the last resting place for the yeasted dough...the Apple fritter. Also, I spent a single day as a donut maker, and the cake donuts were done from a liquid batter, exactly like a cake batter and dropped into the oil with a special machine that dropped perfect circles of dough/batter...they were definitely not rolled and cut.
Cake all the way, unless I happen by a Krispy Kreme with the fresh donut sign on. I don't know anyone that can resist a fresh yeasted Krispy Kreme. But my favourite is a lightly chocolate glazed sour cream cake donut. I'd fight for the last one if I had to. Grilled cheese glazed donut sammies are to die for! They are so good. Another good one is to use the donut for a fried chicken sandwich.
I agree with you about Yeasted versus cake but the one proviso is Honey doughnuts here in Vancouver Canada on the north shore. They’re not just cake donuts they’re pound cake donuts with my favourite flavour, a lightly sweetened ganache topping and it is the best thing you’ll ever taste! And I found that oil solidifier about 10 years ago at The Japanese international store Daiso and it literally changes your life when it comes to frying. No more fear as to what to do with your waste oil PS by the way if you are struggling to get rid of a small amount of oil rolled oats works great and you can pop it in the compost.
The gags in these videos are so good. 😂 I'm not native to the Boston area, so I don't get the local fascination with Dunkin', but I've lived in Somerville for seven years now, and we have an embarrassment of riches in this town when it comes to yeasted donuts. I can't help but pop into Union Square Donuts every few months to buy myself two or three that I then have to try not to eat all in one afternoon. I don't mind a cake donut now and then, too-I love an apple cider cake donut when fall rolls around, and I'm also a sucker for those Entenmann's cinnamon-powdered-sugar-dusted mini donuts.
Yeasted donuts all the way! I grew up 15 min from a Krispy Kreme (aka extremely blessed) so I’ve grown up on their hot n ready glazed donuts (and other flavors too of course). NOTHING beats a hot n ready krispy kreme
Crullers are my favorite donut. I also love cake donuts that are crusted with thick cinnamon sugar. Either one with black coffee are the best. I actually don't dunk. ☕️
Yeasted are the best. Growing up in St. Louis County, we always went to Schneithorst's for Sunday brunch after Sunday Mass. They made the very best glazed yeast donuts I ever had. Sadley, they closed a few years ago, but maybe trying to make my own will make up for the loss of a St. Louis landmark. Well, at least for me!
I hope I didn't sway the voting too much (yeasted are best), because I want everyone's vote (for yeasted) to count.
You didn’t sway the vote at all lol
Neither! Donuts are revolting. The smell of donuts frying is awful. I can't even walk near a donutshop! NoNoNoNoNO! I mean...I don't like deep fried food in general but that weird combination of sugar and flour frying in fat is particularly revolting. Perhaps because I didn't grow up with them or because it's genetic....I don't know but ....no thank you!
Definitely yeast. Although I do love a blueberry cake donut
Whenever there was a box of doughnuts at work, the cake doughnuts were always last to be eaten, if they were eaten at all. Poor lonely little cake doughnuts didn't feel the love.
As a Californian, I do feel cheated that we don't have the seasonal Cider Doughnuts that I've been hearing about over the last few years because I love Spiced Apple Cider! The doughnuts must be a real treat!
P.S. I thought that the coffee glaze in the video was a classic maple glaze at first.
@@KitarraChaosWeaver - Good! That means more donuts for me!
Yeasted all the way. Yay, Krispy Kreme!! Maybe because we don’t have one within 150 miles, we don’t get them often
You know that they have a website? They also do school fund raisers, js.... I bet you can have them shipped...😉
Us either. The Krispy kreme by us closed down, boo.
Yeasted! (Feel free to count my vote more than once.)
I never had a deep love of Dunkin’ (grew up with these) or donuts in general until having Krispy Kreme. It used to be that KrispyK turned on the HOT sign and would even sometimes give you a free fresh donut right out of the glaze! Nothing like it. ❤️
BUT ALSO…if you have the creme filled, that filling is currently the closest thing I’ve tasted to the real Hostess filling in the 70’s (these days Hostess filling is some kind of nasty lard). So the filly KrispyK’s are what provide childhood memories…and THAT is my emotional support ring!
9:30 I remember following a Japanese bread dough recipe for the first time and adding the softened butter. The instructions literally said, "It's gonna look like you messed up. It's gonna look unrecoverable. This is PERFECTLY NORMAL, KEEP KNEADING." And the writer was right, the bread was delicious, albeit exhausting to make.
I was a Donut Fryer for over 10 years and I never got tired of donuts but can I really say which is my favorite donut: cake or yeast? No, some days I want a soft yummy cake donut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles and some days I crave a glazed fluffy yeast donut. I love Both! Sorry Dan, I can’t decide. But sometimes I really want a yeast donut with Bavarian cream filling and chocolate icing .
Only on special occasions do I buy fresh donuts. But when I do, I start with 1 sugar yeasted raised and finish with a plain cake. YUM 😋
If I’m at an old fashioned doughnut place, a sour cream old fashioned cake doughnut is perfection itself. On the other hand, a fresh yeasted maple dip is pretty much guaranteed to calm me down from any problem.
I feel you Rick. Those are my two favs, in that order!!! So glad I'm not alone :)
Maple dipped are underrated! I prefer those over chocolate dipped.
Yep
Old fashioned with maple flavored frosting/glaze. Warm and crispy. Still remember 20 years later from a bakery in florida.
Amen Rick!!!
When it comes to cake vs yeasted donuts, I choose Dan. Seriously, this series is so good. Please make more
Yeasted emotional support rings all the way. I had a similar experience as a child going to Krispy Kreme for the first time and seeing the massive doughnut machine pump out freshly made batches. Changed my life forever.
Cake forever 🍩🍩
and not to mention they gave you a freebie right off the belt!!
@@mrscms831 wow so glad to see someone else remembers this! I, too, recall the love of my local Krispy Kreme… the best donuts around. And that hot, fresh, free bonus donut… man,
Nothing compares to that
I grew up with Krispy Kreme, so that's just what I thought all donuts were like. When I grew up and had Dunkin Donuts for the first time, I wondered who would debase themselves enough to eat those sad, dry rings. Yeasted donuts all day long.
Both yummy😳
Dan, please don't EVER stop making your videos. I literally laugh outloud and always learn great cooking technique. You are just the best. And yes, yeasted are the best too!
Team Yeasted here! Wonderful childhood memory was when Mom, coming home from night shift nurse at IU Med center, would stop at the famous Long's Bakery in Indianapolis for a dozen hot, fresh glazed. They would still be warm when she got home and woke me up for school. KKs are greasy gut bombs by comparison! 😋🤤
Love a fresh cake donut with specks of nutmeg. I'm a West Coast girl and our yeast donuts are high and fluffy, and that is delicious! Krispy Kreme donuts are dense and they train the staff to pull them out before a white ring forms. Not a fan. We still have a few Winchell's here and they have yeast donuts that are very high and fluffy. Yummy!
Dan,
We all ❤ you. Oh my goodness, your segments are so educational, entertaining and endearing. I enjoy every minute of your videos, the subtle humor and charisma are perfect. 👌
We're so happy you're here!
Wow, thank you so much!
❤️My Polish grandma ❤ was a baker and baked every day. Her specialty was yeasted donuts filled with prune filling and rolled in granulated sugar. Heaven on earth! My vote is yeasted always!
yeasted, always! i am Austrian and we love our Krapfen filled with apricot marmalade flavored with a hint of dark rum.
heaven 😋🥰
Yeasted all day! This is the most Dan episode of What's Eating Dan and I LOVE it!!!! 😁😁😁
I prefer the box in front of me…. But having grown up in NY with Dunkin’ Donuts then tried Krispy as an adult, Krispy Kreme was life changing. I don’t think I’ll be able to end the day without buying a dozen after watching this video- Thanks Dan!!!
Yeasted!!! They are so light and fluffy that you can eat a bunch at one sitting. 🍩❤
Whoa, that powder to solidify the oil is amazing! Never heard of it before. Very cool!!!
It's cool, but the less expensive version is cleaning the oil with actual gelatin so you can reuse it
Isn't it so cool?
A doughnut is a donut is a doughnut no matter how it's spelt. And love both caked and yeasted. Cinnamon'ed, glazed, filled - love them all except for sprinkled. Also love fritters - apple, peach, mango, pineapple, etc. Doughnuts/fritters over cake any day as they're my little piece of heaven, oh, and pie! Cheers. Note: doughnut holes in Canada are called TimBits and often just buy those on their own; easier to bring to meetings - a party pack or two, no less.
OK, I'm old! Remember Spudnuts? They were made with potato flour and sold door to door. They were amazing!! Never been anything to beat them. I see you can still find recipes or buy them on Amazon... For today's donuts, I'll take cake over yeast, except for cream filled ones! Great episode! Thanks.
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There is still a spudnuts in Sacramento, CA.
YES! Used to have them as a kid in Milwaukee, WI. A yeasted donut with chocolate glaze is perfection!
Wow, spudnuts sounds amazing.
Cake donuts hands down! Especially when maple frosted in fall.
Yeasted donuts every time. A “Hot Now” flashing sign at Krispy Kreme will draw me in every single time. Love the show!
I grew up in a small PA city that had a local doughnut bakery. While glazed were really good, nothing topped the powdered sugar ones (never cinnamon). These were all yeasted. For fastnacht day, my mother and sisters made the dough while I got to cut them out (I was many years younger than my siblings) and pour the sugar into a bag and shake to coat the doughnuts completely. If I grabbed some that were not yet room temperature, they would come out as a combination of powdered and glazed. My mom did not like them that way but my dad and younger sister both did, me too.
My vote: yeasted.
Thanks, Dan! This was my favorite video so far! It gives me courage to finally try the yeasted donut recipe from CI magazine.
both. cake (sinkers) and powdered donuts, and raised donuts. YUM.
If I could only have one type... It would be cake. Many years ago, the culinary program at a college I attended set up a donut fry in a campus parking lot on the last day of Spring quarter. I was on my way home when I smelled the unmistakable aroma of fried dough. Drawn by a force beyond my control, I found myself in the queue to buy a bag of fresh donuts. I purchased a half-dozen piping hot cake donuts, and consumed them all before completing the one mile walk home. I remember it like it was yesterday!
Yeasted only!!! The original glazed fresh hot off the line at Krispy Kreme is possibly the most amazing bite of sweet you'll ever have in your life! They are ethereal.
Worked at a doughnut shop in college. There are no better donuts than fresh donuts. That's the "magic" of Krispy Kreme, they're pumping out fresh ones all day. Try a day old KK, and it's usually worse than one sold in a traditional shop. My favorite: apple fritters. So many actually crispy bits, while still having the chew of a yeasted doughnut.
I'd rather eat a day old krispy kreme than a day old traditional shop cake donut, so freshness is not the be-all and end-all. Any who, my vote is for yeasted
Iono. I've loved a day old Krispy Kreme lol
@@Cyrribrae Same, but I think they were comparing a day old krispy kreme to a freshly baked donut from a regular donut shop? which was a little weird as a comparison, but I understand what they are trying to say, freshness is going to play a factor, they just used a poor example that made it seem like it was the only factor
Sorry bud, still enjoy a day old KK, just toss it in the microwave for 5 seconds. You're welcome
Oh yeah. Fresh of either is miles better than day-old, but a day-old cake donut is still good dunked if it hasn’t been ruined by being smothered in frosting, whereas a Krispy Kreme of any age on which the glaze is no longer crisp is worthless. Slimy donuts are just tragic.
Honestly, I have no preference. I love both kinds. After giving it some thought, I do tend to eat the yeasted variety more often, so maybe that's a better qualifier. 🙂
I grew up with my grandmother's cake donuts, so they are the One True Donut. That said, I won't turn up my nose if someone wants to make me yeasted donuts. 😉
My sister became best friends with the local, late night donut maker in college. Changed our lives for a little while, the extra 'college 15' changed it back! But, yeasted gets my vote every day! Love your videos!
I absolutely love Dan. I can’t explain it lol.
Yeasted! When I was a Beaumont, Texas teenager in the '50's, our dating ritual was to attend the 'picture show' , and then after the movie, we would stop by a wonderful family owned donut shop. Right before our eyes, they fried the donuts, dipped it in a marvelous sugar coating, and then served the donut to you -- piping hot. I swear if I could take a Krispy Kreme donuts back in time to that little family owned shop to compare the donuts from my past to the Krispy Kreme of today, they would have the very same taste and texture.
Since I’m one of the first comments and I’m 100% sure you’ll see this, I think your videos are awesome. I learn so much.
Thanks so much!
I'm a cake donuts gal. I don't mind yeasted donuts, but they're a little too cloyingly sweet for my taste. The full-bodied texture of the cake variety provides a more balanced counterpart to the sweet frosting/topping. My absolute favorite cake donuts are the apple cider donuts you find at farm stands this time of the year -- it's like biting into a sweet cinnamon-y pillow!
It's cider donuts time! I need to go apple picking and get some and also make my own.
I made a plan with my bff to hit up the farm with the best pumpkin patch, draft horses, and apple cider donuts this year. I am so ready for that deliciousness!
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Yeasted are usually just bland on their own. It's the using that makes them sweet. If anything, cake is sweeter, as it usually has sugar in the batter, whereas yeasted don't have much if any.
Sour cream glazed. But my all time favorite are cruellers
Yeasted doughnuts are it for me, I just love them. Great episode!
Love love yeast doughnuts
Cake donuts all the way! Duck Donuts is the absolute best place for them. Fresh out of the fryer smothered with whatever sweet toppings you want!
I love both types very much but a sour cream glazed cake doughnut is my all time favourite.
Hi Dan!! I love the show! I'm always down for an old fashioned CAKE donut!! Thank you!!
I once took a tour of a Krispy Kreme kitchen. We got to sample glazed donuts fresh from the glazing machine. Still warm. OMG!! Those things are more addictive than crack!
I'm an old guy who enjoys a good cake donut :-)
I always learn a little and get a good laugh from Dan.
I vote for whatever donut supports you emotionally. ❤️
My favourite is yeasted, but whatever donut puts a smile in your face.
While I like yeasted doughnuts just fine, almost any cake doughnut beats any yeasted one, especially sour-cream or old-fashioned glazed, but for a true mouth frenzy I seek out a walnut cruller. Orange crullers are #2.
Crullers! ❤
Dan … your segment on donuts was FABULOUS !! My vote goes to YEAST donuts. Keep up your great work … it’s ALWAYS fun to listen to you !!!
Thank you, Dan, for an entertaining episode as always ❤
Cake doughnuts for sure. They're just more dense and rich to me, a perfect dessert.
Me, Cake all the way, my wife, yeast…. 50 50 in this household. Great episode as always!
Really dating myself here! Many, many years ago we lived in Long Beach, California and I can remember staying out late (newly married) and going to Winchel's Donuts where you could get a plate of assorted donuts for a $1.00 or so. Not sure what they were but the more I think about it they might have been cake. So much fun, sitting in a shop eating donuts, drinking coffee and having a good time in the wee hours of the morning. This was in the middle 60's.
Krispy Kreme produces one of the best mass produced fresh chain product. The problem with the donuts is how quickly they become stale and the fact that kk stays the same consistency is incredible
Microwave stale KK donuts for 7-8 seconds to refresh. You’re welcome
I lean heavily towards yeasted, especially when picking up donuts, BUT... there's something quite comforting about a homemade cakey donut, with the sugar and cinnamon coat
Cake, cake, and cake. Preferably from Dunkin Donuts.
I don't get the Krispy Kreme thing... crazy, crazy sweet 😝.
Cake donuts: crunchy on the outside, satisfying on the inside - tender with just a hint of sweetness and richness from the frying. A great way to start the day. 😇
yes, I say you cannot beat that texture on the outside vs inside
A light yeasted donut is great when the weather is warm, maybe with a glass of cold milk. When the weather cools down, freshly made apple orchard cake donuts and hot mulled cider is a great combination.
Yeasted. I like yeasted donuts so much more than cake donuts that I won’t even eat a cake donut. My favorite donut is really a beignet.
I think for me it depends...if it's a donut shop, I love a glazed yeasted donut. However, if I get to have a hot donut fresh out of the fryer, I'd go for a cake donut with cinnamon sugar. In my hometown, the local county fair has a donut booth that serves hot donuts made to order. Fair donuts do not have a long shelf life (they turn into oily lumps once cooled), but man, they are WONDERFUL hot.
That oil solidifying powder is amazing. (I probably still won't fry things though.)
I like yeasted donuts best when they're super fresh, but otherwise I like a glazed chocolate cake donut.
Yeasted for me but I won’t turn down a good cake donut.
Cake in a heartbeat.
I'm definitely a cake donuts person. Chocolate cake and blueberry cake donuts are my top two, for sure. However, I'd be lying if I said I'd ever turned my nose up at a good yeast donut. Maple glaze yeast donuts get my number 3 spot. Donuts are just good.
yeasted...however, when i was 18 in 1978 I worked in a bakery making donuts and a good, hot buttermilk cake donut is to die for...I'll never forget cranking the donut maker for the cake donuts (it was batter not dough), and flipping cake and yeast with drum sticks over a giant kettle of hot oil
While yeasted (Krispy Kreme) doughnuts are pretty good, especially custard filled, I really prefer a plain cake doughnut dunked in my coffee. Chocolate iced cake doughnuts are pretty darn good too. Krispy Kreme used to make a devil's food doughnut years ago that was awesome but sadly its long gone. Cake for me, Dan. Sorry.
Yeasted donuts are not for dunkin I suppose
Yeasted all the way! Have been known to turn down office donuts if they were all cake. My choice of yeasted doughnuts comes from being half-Polish living near Hamtramck, Michigan and celebrating Fat Tuesday with raspberry or prune (plum jam for the faint of heart) filled yeast paczki…especially from New Palace Bakery.
I grew up in the Houston area. That means I’m a Shipley’s donuts man. A yeasted donut that especially when fresh and hot is food nirvana. They are more substantial than Kristy Kremes. Of course, they do cake donuts too. And Kolaches, which are another breakfast option that’s endemic to Texas. Their’s aren’t the best, but they are serviceable. Without regard, give me a Shipleys any day. I’m aware there are other local and regional options across the nation. Randy’s in LA for instance. Their hot donuts ain’t bad either.
Their glazed chocolate donuts were the best!
Oh, Kolaches.... I occasionally make them my self. But only when I am going to have a crowd for brunch. Lead me not into temptation... I can find it all by myself...
Shipley is my all-time favorite!
B&B Donuts on lower Westheimer has wonderful blueberry cake & maple cake donuts to chase down their boudin kolaches. Pre-Covid days, they would bag up some gratis donut holes [cake] with your breakfast order.
I like Shipley, but being from Dallas I grew up on Southern Maid more. They are the best (to me). I was probably 18 or 19 before Shipley came to my neighborhood. I really never cared for Krispy Kreme. Too much lard, maybe? 😎
Both! I absolutely love blueberry cake donuts as well as old fashioned. Buuuttt Krispy Kremes are amazing!! I simply can't choose!
Winchell''s is what we grew up with out west,when Dunkin and Kreme came to Vegas I've never been so disappointed...Yeast for glazed and Cake for chocolate 🍩
I watched your video again, and the donuts you're making seem to be more like cake than the squishy ones I like best. The best donut texture IMO is a french donut still hot from frying (the ones with a ribbed exterior). They are so full of air you can compress them into a very small glob. I have no idea whether the really soft ones like Boston creams are cake or yeast, but they are the type I prefer along with the french ones.
Yeasted donuts 🍩 aka Pillows of heaven. Having said that, I would never refuse a cake donut and hurt the person’s feelings.😄 Our whole family loves your educational, smart, and funny videos. We learn and laugh along the way. Please keep ‘em coming!
Yeasted! Loved seeing the "hot donut" sign pop on at Krispy Kreme on Broad Street in Richmond Virginia. That first bite was life changing!
omg....my aunt used to visit and always brought us glazed, chocolate glazed, and maple glazed (yeast!) donuts from a shop in Lodi, Wisconsin. Light, airy, sweet....HEAVEN with a hole in the middle! Though I DO love me a plain donut to dunk into coffee!
Omg him glazing those donuts, with just his fingers 🤤
Yeasted are the best. Making donuts is on my list of things to do
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As a North Carolina resident, I was blessed with Krispy Kreme donuts years before other people knew they existed. They rule
Yeasted!! Love you Dan!
Grilled cheese donuts are so good. Did them for my birthday one year. Prefer it with butterkäse.
I'm glad to see the cake donuts that are actually being rolled out. A lot of commercial cake donuts these days are extruded. On the rare occasion Donuts are made on one of those competition shows the judge will tell people the difference between cake and yeast is the at the cake ones are extruded which is not always the case. I like both types of donuts and I actually like what chocolate glaze on a cake donut.
My husband preferred Cake doughnuts and I prefer Yeasted doughnuts. So, yes, it really is a tie!
Definitely yeast. My favorite are homemade maple bars. YUM!! Next time I'm making them with bacon on top.
Yeast doughnuts all the way! So glad to see you, Dan! You are aHOOT!
My favorite is a specific type of cake donut, sometimes called and Old Fashioned, and sometimes, a Sour Cream donut. These donuts sort of burst along the upper edge, creating a bit of extra crunchy crust that I love a lot. Second to those are crullers, which are yeast donuts. After that, my third favorite is the last resting place for the yeasted dough...the Apple fritter. Also, I spent a single day as a donut maker, and the cake donuts were done from a liquid batter, exactly like a cake batter and dropped into the oil with a special machine that dropped perfect circles of dough/batter...they were definitely not rolled and cut.
Yeasted! We made them in cooking school, and I still consider that one of my most satisfying experiences.
Cake all the way, unless I happen by a Krispy Kreme with the fresh donut sign on. I don't know anyone that can resist a fresh yeasted Krispy Kreme. But my favourite is a lightly chocolate glazed sour cream cake donut. I'd fight for the last one if I had to. Grilled cheese glazed donut sammies are to die for! They are so good. Another good one is to use the donut for a fried chicken sandwich.
Cake, cake, and more cake! They stay fresher tasting than yeast. Instead of nutmeg, try cardamom... So delicious.
Yeasted, glazed are the ultimate donut for me!!!
I agree with you about Yeasted versus cake but the one proviso is Honey doughnuts here in Vancouver Canada on the north shore. They’re not just cake donuts they’re pound cake donuts with my favourite flavour, a lightly sweetened ganache topping and it is the best thing you’ll ever taste! And I found that oil solidifier about 10 years ago at The Japanese international store Daiso and it literally changes your life when it comes to frying. No more fear as to what to do with your waste oil PS by the way if you are struggling to get rid of a small amount of oil rolled oats works great and you can pop it in the compost.
The gags in these videos are so good. 😂 I'm not native to the Boston area, so I don't get the local fascination with Dunkin', but I've lived in Somerville for seven years now, and we have an embarrassment of riches in this town when it comes to yeasted donuts. I can't help but pop into Union Square Donuts every few months to buy myself two or three that I then have to try not to eat all in one afternoon. I don't mind a cake donut now and then, too-I love an apple cider cake donut when fall rolls around, and I'm also a sucker for those Entenmann's cinnamon-powdered-sugar-dusted mini donuts.
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Yeasted! I grew up in the south and remember watching the Krispy Kreme donut line through the big glass windows and eating them piping hot!
Yeasted donuts all the way! I grew up 15 min from a Krispy Kreme (aka extremely blessed) so I’ve grown up on their hot n ready glazed donuts (and other flavors too of course). NOTHING beats a hot n ready krispy kreme
YEASTED all the way!!! Shipley's Do-nuts were the best, but they're mostly located in the South so I may actually have to try the yeasted recipe.
Crullers are my favorite donut. I also love cake donuts that are crusted with thick cinnamon sugar. Either one with black coffee are the best. I actually don't dunk. ☕️
My vote is: Both! Who doesn't love a donut of any kind? Monsters, I assume.
Yeasted. Fresh brioche donuts from Blue Star donuts in Portland changed my life.
Cake! Love love love glazed old fashioned with hot coffee
Yeasted are the best. Growing up in St. Louis County, we always went to Schneithorst's for Sunday brunch after Sunday Mass. They made the very best glazed yeast donuts I ever had. Sadley, they closed a few years ago, but maybe trying to make my own will make up for the loss of a St. Louis landmark. Well, at least for me!
Was that an original throwback video of you! Loved it!
Really enjoyed this style of video Dan! But I still like blueberry cake doughnuts best🤤
Yeast donuts definitely. But I do love chocolate or powdered suger little cake donuts. My favorite off all are maple long johns. Yummmmmm!!!