I recall being fascinated as a youngster by the mechanical donut engines you would see at fairs and in food courts. By an arrangement of shafts, chains and cams, these contraptions automatically dispense dough rings, fry, flip and drain the items. (I’m still fascinated by them, but you just don’t see donuts being fried in public so much any more).

Nostalgia led me to trying a recipe¹ for air-fryer donuts yesterday. You are supposed to roll the dough flat, then use two cookie-cutters to make a disc with its centre removed. This feels…wrong. A washer is not aesthetically the same as a torus! I have been up all night tinkering with gravity generators and field projectors; I think I have a working torus extruder now. It only needs half a gram of Neutronium as the singularity seed.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #TrueStory #UntilItIsnt

¹ https://cooked.wiki/new?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taste.com.au%2Frecipes%2Fair-fryer-donuts-recipe%2Fs04i3w12