Sure, we all love the traditional donut shapes. We need donuts in the shapes of various platonic solids. Tetrahedron, dodecahedron, etc.. Or perhaps 3d surfaces like cones and catenoids. Maybe hypersurfaces too!
-- DeathNinja, Jul 25 2003

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Use the shape to indicate the filling. I hate it when I want Boston cream and suddenly bite into slimy jelly.
-- kbecker, Jul 25 2003


This is a great idea! As kbecker said, you could use the different shapes to distinguish the flavor and a cube shape would be a cool shape for a piece of food.
-- darkknight_152002, Jul 26 2003


Who thought of toroid shape anyway? How 'bout a pretzel shape for my donut too, or a yummy dodecahedron. In fact the name dodecahedron sounds scrumptious. +
-- sartep, Jul 26 2003


mmm.... donuts!
-- Cedar Park, Jul 26 2003


Someone's going to ask what shape a custard-filled doughnut would be. That someone might as well be me.
-- Jezzie, Jul 26 2003


[shakes head]
-- waugsqueke, Jul 26 2003


This could be extended to toast and other baked bread products. I propose making bread in the shape of mobius strips, which are one sided. No longer would we wonder why buttered toast always lands buttered side down.
-- syperchaic, Jul 26 2003


Coming up next on the Halfbakery, Mobius Bread Toasters!
-- Cedar Park, Jul 27 2003


And "Moebius Bread Toaster Warmer Racks"
-- DeathNinja, Jul 27 2003


Most of the shapes you've suggested are all the same shape anyway.
-- Detly, Jul 27 2003


I have yet to see a 2D doughnut [deathninja]. Are they a diet thing?
-- squeak, Jul 28 2003


Not to be confused with 2rd
-- thumbwax, Jul 28 2003


Donuts are shaped the way they are because if they weren't, they wouldn't cook through in the midle.
-- dbsousa, Aug 26 2003


And here I am eating toroidal donuts like a sucker.
-- Worldgineer, Aug 26 2003


what about microwavable dounuts? If we laced them with ice, then we could heat them from frozen using a microwave? (theoretically, I'm not a specialist in the field of doughnut physics... oh... I had a strange thought then... I could invent doughnut physics... or doughnubiosytological physics... I have WAYYY to much free time)

>> oh yeah... and we wouldn't need a vacuole in the centre
-- Ossalisc, Aug 26 2003


"We offer units in nuclear physics, particle and high energy physics, protien physics, astrophysics, nectarotoroidal physics, electrodynamics..."
-- Detly, Aug 26 2003


yeah, but do any of the have a measure of 'Scrumptiousness' (Scr), or (Ty) Tasty=9.1235417632415 Scu (the metric IS version)
-- Ossalisc, Aug 27 2003


[+] I perfectly love this idea! I'm thinking it must have lost its buns in the Great Donut Crash of '04.
-- xandram, Oct 03 2012


Klein Bottle donuts … infinitley sugary.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 03 2012



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