Do you remember store window doughnut machine?

Bekeart · Jul 6, 2023

Doughnuts / Donuts are common in humor for this forum,

Wonder if anybody else remember a long ago doughnut making machine.

Long long ago (1950s) I remember seeing an automatic doughnut making machine it department store window.

The machine would plop a ring of batter into the hot fat,
The batter would be moved in a circular path by a rotating spoked guidance device.
At mid point of the trip a spatula / arm would flip the doughnut and advance it one space in the path.
Reaching the end the doughnut was lifted out of the machine and placed in a pile to be glazed.

Bekeart

The one I remember was located in Terre Haute, IN.

deadin · Jul 6, 2023

Ours was right next door to the salt-water taffy pulling machine..

desi2358 · Jul 6, 2023

Don't remember them in a department store window but it sure sounds like the machine a vendor uses at local fairs. When our kids were in 4H we spent a lot of time at the county fair and one of our favorite snack trucks was the donut man. You could watch it make the donuts, worked just like the one the OP described. Don't get to the fairs as much nowadays (but grandkids in 4H are changing that) but still seeing donut trucks out there and they are still just as good!

K-22 · Jul 6, 2023

Eugene, Oregon

Bekeart said:
Doughnuts / Donuts are common in humor for this forum,

Wonder if anybody else remember a long ago doughnut making machine.

Long long ago (1950s) I remember seeing an automatic doughnut making machine it department store window.

The machine would plop a ring of batter into the hot fat,
The batter would be moved in a circular path by a rotating spoked guidance device.
At mid point of the trip a spatula / arm would flip the doughnut and advance it one space in the path.
Reaching the end the doughnut was lifted out of the machine and placed in a pile to be glazed.

Bekeart

The one I remember was located in Terre Haute, IN.

Pope’s Donut Shop, on Willamette St. (the main drag) in Eugene ,Ore.
The donuts were good. The monster milkshakes, and malts, were spectacular!

JohnRippert · Jul 6, 2023

I remember the Shipley's Donuts we used to go to back in the mid '70s had windows all along the side so you could watch the assembly line procedure of the donuts being made. I would stand there and watch for as long as my parents would let me.

arjay · Jul 6, 2023

Brings back memories of funnel cakes at the county fair ;-D

pawngal · Jul 6, 2023

Tom Thumb mini donuts have been a staple at the local county fair for over 50 years. One of the reasons I still go.

rwsmith · Jul 6, 2023

Krispy Kreme......

When we were small the local Krispy Kreme added an extension to the building and put a big donut machine with a big window. It was a conveyer running under tha fat and when they got halfway they fell down a 'step' and flipped over. At the end they went through the glazer that poured the sugar syrup on them to make the glazed. We LOVED Krispy Kreme donuts. They had to do the filled ones by hand. I never saw them make the chocolate, peanut, coconut, etc. ones, but I sure like to eat them!

Rustyt1953 · Jul 6, 2023

The Hamilton County 4-H Fair just ended.

The soft pretzels w/spicy brown mustard and the funnel cakes did but task me.

lihpster · Jul 6, 2023

I remember one of the local mom and pop stores, it's gone now, had a machine that would cook burgers. You'd buy a frozen patty and bun, run it through this machine that was about a 2 foot cube. It would cook the patty and toast the bun. They were pretty terrible burgers, but watching the machine was fun.

Chuck24 · Jul 6, 2023

When I took driver’s ed around 1970, the football coach that was in charge planned the route so the Krispy Kreme was the halfway point and it happened to coincide with the hot donut sign being on. Buying the donuts pretty much guaranteed a passing grade.

Mike SC Hunter · Jul 6, 2023

Some KRISPY KREME"S still have it.

jeffrefrig · Jul 6, 2023

Take a girl to the fairs for funnel cakes and you're in like Flint! I ate one in my life, I think, and it tasted like rancid bacon grease. Yum Yum!!

Tom S. · Jul 6, 2023

Mmmm.....donuts!

chuckie · Jul 6, 2023

Many of the Farm Stands around this neck of the woods have donut machines, mostly popular in the fall, they make apple cider donuts.

DWalt · Jul 6, 2023

Back in my youth, the home town Woolworth dime store had one of those automatic donut fryers/flipper carousels, Also it had a hot dog stand, a hot nuts area (you could buy a nice sized bag of hot roasted peanuts for. dime), and a pretty good lunch counter/soda fountain. I think it did not survive the 1970s. It is now a pawn shop. There were four dime stores there, side by side. None remain

I hadn’t thought about it for years, that Woolworth store also had a shoe repair shop and a pet shop in the basement. Birds, fish, pups, and kittens. A nice place.

rwsmith · Jul 6, 2023

They NEVER change the grease......

jeffrefrig said:
Take a girl to the fairs for funnel cakes and you're in like Flint! I ate one in my life, I think, and it tasted like rancid bacon grease. Yum Yum!!

...but put enough butter, sugar and cinnamon on them, they're GREAT!!!

Abbynormal · Jul 6, 2023

Long's Donuts on 16th street 2 miles east of the Indianapolis MotorSpeedway and in Southport have the lightest sweetest
donuts ever made.

Square Donuts out of Terre Haute and Bloomington are the
only donuts I've ever had that could give Long's a run for their money.

Bald1 · Jul 6, 2023

When I was a kid we had a “Fry Daddy”. It was basically a table top deep fryer. Mom would buy cans of biscuits and we’d use a small pill bottle to cut out holes in center of biscuits. Then we’d drop them in the fryer. When done we’d put them in a bag with confectionery sugar and shake them around. Then we’d do the same with all the doughnut holes. Better than any powdered doughnut you could buy.

SMSgt · Jul 6, 2023

There was a little donut shop in Spokane, WA, I used to hit. Behind a window you could see them making fresh donuts, flipping them with wooden sticks. I defy anyone to stand there and watch that without ordering a dozen . . . or more. And their coffee was top notch.

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