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Imagine the smell of hot, freshly baked donuts drifting lightly through the air from a vending machine whirring away in the corner. Once this idea is implemented, you'd be able to satisfy your craving for a fresh donut 24 hours a day.
The customer just puts their money in, types in the code for
their favorite donut, and voila! Out pops a plain donut and single serve topping packages. (sprinkles, frosting, chocolate ect.) Pre-formed dough rings would be refrigerated internally, and fried in a small amount of pressurized cooking oil when ordered. The only matinence required would be occasional restocking. All the classic toppings will be provided and the customer can stack up as many toppings as they want. (for a small fee, of course)
The product could be placed in malls, offices, apartments, hotels, tourist attractions, convenience stores ect. How's that for a first idea?
(?) French fry vending machine
http://www.patatachef.com
Other fry-on-demand technology at work. [waugsqueke, Oct 04 2004]
Deep fry vending machines
http://www.halfbake...20Vending_20Machine
All the pros and cons [Mayfly, Oct 04 2004]
(?) The Economics of Doughnuts (M$ Word .doc)
http://courses.smsu...s/ECOlessonplan.doc
Based on a fictitious instance of a self-contained donut machine, but with humyns dispensing the product. [LoriZ, Oct 04 2004]
MONO Equipment fresh donut vending machine
http://www.monoequip.com/news/nr7342.htm
Looks like a company has made this one a reality. Now if they could only get it to my office... [dan1123, Oct 27 2005]
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I'm not a doughnut eater, but that idea rocks!
Ask the Police Force to fund it for you. |
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Nice concept. The biggest problem I can see is that while frying time for an individual donut is pretty short (making fry-on-demand possible), I think that for best results the dough has to be raised for a certain controlled length of time (which is much longer than the time to cook the donut). |
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Three positive annos, and not a croissant from any of 'em! Take one of mine. |
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All I'm worried about is this hot, pressurised cooking oil - is it used to discourage pilfering, as well? |
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Sounds good to me. You might keep the oil warm (hot?) all the time to keep cooking time short. In little-used machines, replace the oil periodically. I hate rancid donuts. |
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Have a fried-on-demand croissant. |
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Mmmmmm donut. *salivates* |
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[DO NOT TILT THE MACHINE] |
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Why do I get the impression that this was boned merely because someone wished their first idea was this good. (+) |
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<drool> Krispy Kreme vending machine... yumm! </drool> (+) |
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We covered this idea last year. See link... |
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<Homer>mmmm... halfbaked</Homer> |
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Yes, but that was essentially for savoury foods. Donuts aren't explictly mentioned. Ok, this isn't that different - the technical issues are the same - but I think there's some extra mileage in this idea. |
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I've seen a semi-automatic donut fryer in action in a baker's shop in Jasper, Alberta. It was quite hypnotic. |
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Since you know the holes are cut out on a lathe. |
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I'd put Dunkin Donuts outta business permanently |
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Ahh, I *still* want a doughnut venging machine. |
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If they install one at my office, they'd find my bloated sinking body next to the machine in the morning, a quarter-full $500 bag of coins in my lap and a big smile on my face. |
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I've already voted... can anyone lend me a croissant? |
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GREAT IDEA BUILD ONE AND GIVE ME ONE PLEASE I LOVE DONUTS *PANT DROOL SLOBBER* |
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A correspondent asked me to pass this on: |
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This is so silly, they had a Donut making and vending coin
op machine at the entrance of Publix Drug store in
Johannesburg, South Africa back in 1946 / 47 that I used
to get my "American" Donut fix.
I wonder who made it. Likely came from the USA. |
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BTW this unit had a transparent front glass / plexiglas ?
not sure, but one could watch the whole process.
If anyone is really serious about this a search of patents
at about that time would likely turn it up. |
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We saw such a machine in a bakery in Jasper,
Alberta in your Earth year 1975 CE. It wasn't
coin-operated, but it did have a conveyor of
steel rods that carried a ring of donut dough
(extruded and cut from a large tank) through
hot oil, and then under a sugar shaker, at the press
of a button. If someone ordered 6 donuts, the
assistant would press a button and pretty
soon six freshly cooked donuts were handed
over. |
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//Krispy Kreme// oh ick, why don't you just put sugar in grease and drink it: save chewing. _Real_ donuts are light and airy and fresh out of the frybasket. |
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//why don't you just put sugar in grease and drink it // |
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Because McDonalds already have the copyright on their "milkshake"
concept ? |
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One of my life goals is now to own a Mono Donut
Robot® Mark II with Roto-Cooler, even though they
can't spell "doughnut". |
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Re. Krispy Kreme - I'm with [FT], they are pretty
gross. |
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You're not going to believe this, but I've got my eyes
on a Lil Orbits 1200 that I saw demonstrated at a
swap meet I took my family to. |
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Stood there munchy-wunching on fresh lil' donuts
while mesmerized by this thing, chatting with the old
timer running it. He does all the high tech company
events in the area, Google, Apple, you name it. Doing
the math while these little buggers floated by I
calculated that he made an ok living. |
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Might have just been the hydrogenated oil fumes,
but I had this sudden epiphany that I could have
taken a very different path in life and sold little
donuts without going through all the shit I've had to
endure with the blood thirsty competitive businesses
I chose to get into in my youth. Just me and my
donuts. No contracts, no lawyers, no partners, just
me and my Lil' Orbits donut maker on a sunny day
passing out smiles. |
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Anyway, the Lil Orbits unit was invented by a very
successful former aerospace engineer (really) who
decided to go rogue I guess. I think I understand
where he was coming from. |
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I long to have one. It speaks to me. |
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Google "Homer Price donut" for what happens when doughnut machines go bad. Ain't pretty. |
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connect it to a soft serve ice cream machine and you can have all of my money |
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