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Ed Chastain from Donut Dvd (who by the way sells an excellent product) shared a cute video with us.... be sure to check out his website by clicking on the banner below this post....

Having a good donut recipe is important when you first start your donut business. There are many options when you come to this situation. You will need to have a basic donut recipe before you start your business. You may want to look on the Internet and type donut recipe to begin your search. There are many good recipes some good some bad, of course.

We chose to use little orbits recipe that we got off of their website. It actually was not a doughnut recipe but a doughnut mix so that we ordered from their company. It ended up being very good as you can tell from our taste tests in our videos a couple of months ago. We will be trying several different donut recipes in the future and posting them to our blog. We were so impressed with the little orbit's donut recipe That we did not bother to try anything else.

There are several donut recipes on the Internet that we plan on trying in the future. We plan on even making a donut recipes blog so people have somewhere to go to find out more about donut recipes. There's not only a recipe for the donut itself, but recipes for the fillings that go inside of the doughnuts. Some of the fillings are much better than others, as you probably have experienced from going to other doughnut shops. Personally I can really tell a difference in the fillings of different donut shops. If you want to try a very good donut recipe, check out our ad on this blog donutdvd.com. They really guide you on how to start up your donut business And give you training on how what to do. They also give you the all important donut recipe that can be very difficult to find. Is much better to start with something proven, than to try to find something that people like. You may want to check out their website, they have very good donut recipes.

My business partners and I tried another experiment using liquid soybean oil from Sam's and the partially hydroginated soybean oil from Lil Orbits. It should be noted that the ingrediants for each were the same according to the nutritonal labels, but the amounts of each ingrediant were not stipulated. So, exactly how much citric acid is in there? Does it really matter? Who knows. There was one glaring difference between the oils, however. The Lil Orbits oil contained transfat while the Sam's oil did not. I guess you could say we were trying to make healthy donuts with the Sam's oil! Okay, maybe not. But, we were interested to see it there was a taste difference.
We started with the Sam's oil, and I made a small mistake in preparing the batter. Two weeks ago during our last taste test session we noted that if prepared exactly to the directions the batter set up quickly. This made it too thick to pour through the applicator. I noted the same consistency again and added a bit more water to the batter to thin it out. Apparently, I added too much as the batter became too stringy. Ugh! Frustrating! So much for finding a happy medium.
Instead of coming out in nice rings through the applicator the batter came out in clumps with strings attached. Someone commented that it looked we were deep frying tarantulas. Yum Yum! The cooking time was the same, but more bubbles were noted rising through the batter in the oil kind of like what you see when cooking pancakes. With the thinner batter more tiny pieces were left in the oil follwing the cooking process "dirtying" the oil. Note to self--easy on the water.
Surprisingly, I did notice a taste difference between the oils. We tried both sets of donuts together, some hot and some cold after sitting for an hour. Same results. The donuts made in Lil Orbits oil were slightly better with a pleasant cake-like taste. The donuts cooked in the Sam's oil were a bit heavier and greasier. Even though there was a noticable difference in was only slight, and in my opinion insignificant. When running a business it's a no-brainer that costs must be controlled. Getting oil from Sam's is less expensive than from Lil Orbits mostly because of shipping costs. The Lil Orbits does make a tastier donut, but it would also have to be a more expensive donut to turn a profit. I can say that the donuts we made last time with the pure vegetable oil were my least favorite with the ones being made with the Sam's oil being superior.
My business partners and I plan on videotaping the donut making process next week using our Lil Orbits test kit. Stay tuned!

Below is our first test of the Lil Orbits Donut Recipe, something we are considering going with.... The video is not the best quality but wanted to give everyone an idea of what we are up to... Bob recorded the video with his iphone... using a tool called qik.com Really pretty cool..... We are going to do the taste test again and record it, this time a little better quality. We weren't really prepared for this taste test, next time we will be. Thanks for all the comments, We are slowly but surely getting this off the ground.... The video is about 10 minutes in length... thanks for all the nice emails we have received about the blog, it has been awhile in the making....