The Doughnut Vault

25th July 2011

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Who’s the Boss?

Back in the kitchen at the Doughnut Vault every once in awhile you come across a doughnut who is a little disobedient and angry, akin to an angst-ridden teenager. Despite Francois and Henri’s careful tending, there are doughnuts who give our favorite chefs the finger. Curious, we wanted to learn more about these rebel doughnuts and find out who really is the boss at the Doughnut Vault: the doughnuts or their makers???

A rebel doughnut

Henri enlightened us on this bad, bad behavior that starts with the nascent dough.

Settling In

“After we get done mixing the dough it’s divided evenly into bins for storage in the cooler. Pretty frequently, some naughty bins, mind you, not all the bins, will start to overflow. It’s like they’re shunning curfew, sneaking out the window to meet up with friends.”

Rolling around

“As we roll the dough out the thinner it gets, the more it will recoil to its center from all sides. You can keep stretching and stretching and it will always pull back. The dough has built up an elastic powerhouse of energy and isn’t afraid to leverage it. Pretty rude, if you ask me.”

House Party

“The next step is where the doughnut shapes really starts to disobey and like unruly teenagers, have a house party while the parents sleep. As I cut the doughnuts into their shapes, yet again, the dough pulls back toward its center. But that’s minor compared to what happens next. After the dough shapes are cut, they are moved to fry screens for storing and frying. During this period all of the doughnut shapes want to come together and hang out. Not only is there blatant reaching, and clear pining to kiss the doughnut next door, they also raise up a ton, like they’re dancing.”

The gingerbread stack doughnuts before During After

Music Volume

“So when we get back to the little doughnut shapes, party’s over. I pull the friends out of the storing room. If the room is too hot they jiggle around, too humid they shake, too cold they shrink; it’s like they just want to dance. And even when we’re trying to control all of the factors so tightly and we think we’ve got it. THEY MOVE! Its like come on… Give me a break, kids! Just do what we tell ya.”

Another bad doughnut

So as you can see from start to finish, the dough has a pretty massive personality. The dough is fighting every step of the way and doesn’t like to listen to Henri, or Francois, or even Tony Danza.