Donuts......?

Question

Why do donuts have a hole in the middle?

Answer 1

Doughnuts, as ring-shaped items, are an important explanatory tool in the science of topology where the ring doughnut shape (a ring with a circular cross-section) is called a torus or toroid, and an example of using the ring doughnut as an illustrative term can be found in popular explanations of the Poincaré conjecture. The other toroidal food item used in topological explanations is the bagel.

However, the bagel has a hole to allow it to be retrieved from boiling water, while a doughnut hole is intended to allow the doughnut to cook faster and more thoroughly. There is no historical connection between bagels and doughnuts.

Answer 2

Not all donuts have a hole in the middle. The ones with jelly or cream in the middle are a complete circle. For glazed donuts it is good to have holes in the middle so you can put a rod throught them and pour glaze on them. It is easier and faster that way. As for the other donuts maybe it is so when you take a bite out of it, you can hang it off your coffee mug instead of putting it on the table. For me if a donut did not have a hole, I would expect something to be in it. If there wasn't, then I would not like the taste of it.

Answer 3

i know and y do donut holes not have holes in the middle

Answer 4

Ring doughnuts can be formed either by joining the ends of a long, skinny piece of dough into a ring, or by using a doughnut cutter which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center

Answer 5

supposedly when they were first made the middle was raw. So instead of the consumer pulling out the middle they started cooking with the hole so the entire dough was cooked.

Answer 6

Hanson ate these little cakes many a day; they were always soggy in the middle. He asked his mom to cut the center of the the fried cake. She decided to do that to all of the fried cakes and people actually liked them. That's how doughnuts were invented

Answer 7

so they can be called a donut, and w can have donut holes

Answer 8

Well, why not? They sell donut holes, too. $$Money$$

LOL well I found an answer on this site:
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/doughnuts.asp

Enjoy!

Answer 9

Maybe because that's the way the machinery that drops the dough into the fryer is designed.

Answer 10

with or without a hole--I love them!Esp with coffee