I’ve realized the apple cider donuts from the grocery store…

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I mean, it's a donut. They're supposed to be unhealthy. Just enjoy them in moderation.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

Uh, the problem is that you have not been to an actual orchard, just some fake "orchard" where they truck in everything they sell from elsewhere and nothing is fresh. That's on you.

I don't need to "romanticize" apple cider donuts made fresh at an actual orchard because it's just a great experience that I enjoy and I don't feel the need to sell people on it. In fact, don't bother driving further out for that experience, you'll just make the line longer. Feel free to continue to go to some "country store" billing itself as an orchard that is a 10 minute drive from your house and then complaining about how orchards aren't real and they are really just grocery stores selling a dream.

Found the idiot who buys into the marketing hook, line, and sinker.

NP. I live in a state that is major producer of apples. Orchards here absolutely make their own donuts and cider. You literally watch it being made and handed to you, including the industrial apple press. Just because you don’t know any better doesn’t mean better doesn’t exist.

But yet, here you are on DCUM where we are talking about the places HERE.

NP. One of the more pathetic attempts at a comeback I’ve seen on DCUM recently, lol

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Anonymous wrote:If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

Uh, the problem is that you have not been to an actual orchard, just some fake "orchard" where they truck in everything they sell from elsewhere and nothing is fresh. That's on you.

I don't need to "romanticize" apple cider donuts made fresh at an actual orchard because it's just a great experience that I enjoy and I don't feel the need to sell people on it. In fact, don't bother driving further out for that experience, you'll just make the line longer. Feel free to continue to go to some "country store" billing itself as an orchard that is a 10 minute drive from your house and then complaining about how orchards aren't real and they are really just grocery stores selling a dream.

Found the idiot who buys into the marketing hook, line, and sinker.

NP. I live in a state that is major producer of apples. Orchards here absolutely make their own donuts and cider. You literally watch it being made and handed to you, including the industrial apple press. Just because you don’t know any better doesn’t mean better doesn’t exist.

But yet, here you are on DCUM where we are talking about the places HERE.

NP. One of the more pathetic attempts at a comeback I’ve seen on DCUM recently, lol

It wasn’t a comeback? It’s simply stating that comparing orchards in wherever it is someone is posting from doesn’t really have any relevance here. It would be like someone from California stating the tacos are better in California than Bethesda MD. Or Saying avocados are better in Hawaii than at the whole foods in Dupont Circle. Imagine heading into an Ohio parent message board and telling them the DC metro is superior to whatever transit system they have. Like why would someone even feel the need?

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Anonymous wrote:If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

Uh, the problem is that you have not been to an actual orchard, just some fake "orchard" where they truck in everything they sell from elsewhere and nothing is fresh. That's on you.

I don't need to "romanticize" apple cider donuts made fresh at an actual orchard because it's just a great experience that I enjoy and I don't feel the need to sell people on it. In fact, don't bother driving further out for that experience, you'll just make the line longer. Feel free to continue to go to some "country store" billing itself as an orchard that is a 10 minute drive from your house and then complaining about how orchards aren't real and they are really just grocery stores selling a dream.

Found the idiot who buys into the marketing hook, line, and sinker.

NP. I live in a state that is major producer of apples. Orchards here absolutely make their own donuts and cider. You literally watch it being made and handed to you, including the industrial apple press. Just because you don’t know any better doesn’t mean better doesn’t exist.

But yet, here you are on DCUM where we are talking about the places HERE.

NP. One of the more pathetic attempts at a comeback I’ve seen on DCUM recently, lol

It wasn’t a comeback? It’s simply stating that comparing orchards in wherever it is someone is posting from doesn’t really have any relevance here. It would be like someone from California stating the tacos are better in California than Bethesda MD. Or Saying avocados are better in Hawaii than at the whole foods in Dupont Circle. Imagine heading into an Ohio parent message board and telling them the DC metro is superior to whatever transit system they have. Like why would someone even feel the need?

dik measuring! Hey have you heard about NY Pizza? lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

Uh, the problem is that you have not been to an actual orchard, just some fake "orchard" where they truck in everything they sell from elsewhere and nothing is fresh. That's on you.

I don't need to "romanticize" apple cider donuts made fresh at an actual orchard because it's just a great experience that I enjoy and I don't feel the need to sell people on it. In fact, don't bother driving further out for that experience, you'll just make the line longer. Feel free to continue to go to some "country store" billing itself as an orchard that is a 10 minute drive from your house and then complaining about how orchards aren't real and they are really just grocery stores selling a dream.

Found the idiot who buys into the marketing hook, line, and sinker.

NP. I live in a state that is major producer of apples. Orchards here absolutely make their own donuts and cider. You literally watch it being made and handed to you, including the industrial apple press. Just because you don’t know any better doesn’t mean better doesn’t exist.

Are you the crazy lady in Michigan? If so, you are on here an unhealthy level.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the orchards even make the ones they sell. I think they throw pre made ones in the fryer for a second to make them hot and then charge crazy prices for them.

Unfortunately, I think that’s now true and so they’ve sort of loss the appeal for me. I used to get fabulous ones at a place in western Massachusetts and could also sometimes get good ones at a place in davidsonville. Now they all taste like preservatives.
I might just make my own. It’s not actually that hard.

Was it Atkins farm, pp? Miss that place![/quote

YES! It was absolutely Atkins farm. Sigh.

Some of the places that are frying them in front of you are getting premade dough -- its like the pizza places that get globs of premade dough (which usually has preservatives in it) and roll it and bake it in shop. It's better than getting everything premade and shipped, but not nearly as good as when its fresh from scratch. A lot of grocery stores also are getting the premade dough too, and some bakeries as well. It's sometimes called "bake off" -- you just bake it in house to finish it off (although some bake off places are using par baked, not just dough). Basically, you need to see that they have bags of flour and big industrial mixers on site, or they probably are just doing a bake off.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the orchards even make the ones they sell. I think they throw pre made ones in the fryer for a second to make them hot and then charge crazy prices for them.

Unfortunately, I think that’s now true and so they’ve sort of loss the appeal for me. I used to get fabulous ones at a place in western Massachusetts and could also sometimes get good ones at a place in davidsonville. Now they all taste like preservatives.
I might just make my own. It’s not actually that hard.

Was it Atkins farm, pp? Miss that place![/quote

YES! It was absolutely Atkins farm. Sigh.

Some of the places that are frying them in front of you are getting premade dough -- its like the pizza places that get globs of premade dough (which usually has preservatives in it) and roll it and bake it in shop. It's better than getting everything premade and shipped, but not nearly as good as when it's fresh from scratch. A lot of grocery stores also are getting the premade dough too, and some bakeries as well. It's sometimes called "bake off" -- you just bake it in house to finish it off (although some bake off places are using par baked, not just dough). Basically, you need to see that they have bags of flour and big industrial mixers on site, or they probably are just doing a bake off.

Maybe. Some of the orchards clearly have in-house bakeries and are making the dough themselves but I agree this is more rare.

However, to return to the OP, even a "bake off" donut would be better than a donut from the grocery store, take home, and stick in the microwave. A freshly made donut, even from a pre-made dough the seller purchased elsewhere, will be WAY better than donut that was made hours or even days prior, shipped on a truck, and purchased in a retail store. A fresh donut is a fresh donut.