Donuts are not only a favorite treat of children and adults all over the world. A donut or several with different fillings and a cup of coffee or tea is a delicious breakfast or a light snack in the afternoon. Cooking them can become an inexpensive and efficient business. A device for making donuts is the main equipment, both in a small trading tent and for an enterprise with in-line production.
Donut Business
The donut making and selling business attracts a small start-up capital and high demand for this type of product.
There are quite large enterprises where the donut machine is part of a large complex of equipment, a serious production line. Packaged, maybe beautiful and with various filling, but already cooled donuts get to the final consumer.
Less expensive is the production of delicious products in front of customers when a donut machine is installed in a small room. Recipes for cooking goodies may not be very diverse, but round with a hole in the middle, lush, hot, sprinkled with powdered sugar products always attract customers and disperse very quickly.
The process of making donuts is simple and does not require special training.
Donut recipes for the device mainly relate to a variety of fillings, and the dough itself is most often prepared from a dry mixture, which only needs to be diluted with water in a certain proportion.
How donuts are made
In addition to round in the form of small bagels, deep fried, today there are donuts with a wide variety of fillings - chocolate, cream, caramel or berry.
Such pastries can be called and crumpets, and Berliners, dinics, donuts.
For donuts, enough liquid dough is used. So that the products have the same shape and weight, the dough is poured into molds through a special dispenser. You can lay out the dough manually, if you do not need a high cooking speed and the cook has an accurate hand and a sharp eye, or the finished product is sold by weight, and not by pieces.
Classic donuts are baked in an electric or gas deep fat fryer with a large amount of preheated oil for about twenty at a time. The process takes no more than two minutes. Then the finished donuts are laid out on a wire rack or plate to glass the butter, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
In such donuts, the filling is not put, you can only add various ingredients to the dough. It can be spices and flavorings. Powder may differ, for example, instead of icing sugar, you can use poppy or sesame.
Professional donut making equipment
The main characteristics of donut machines are productivity, that is, the number of products manufactured, the functionality of the equipment, and its equipment. For large enterprises and donut cafes, the level of automation of the production process is also important, although in small retail outlets where all functions, including preparation of raw materials and sales, lie on one person, this characteristic can also matter.
Manual devices require human participation at all stages of production. Manually, the dough is put into the dispenser, and it is started by pressing the handle. To determine the readiness and turn the donuts in the deep fryer, as well as remove them from boiling oil, you also need to manually.
An automatic donut machine bakes automatically at all stages. The operator only puts the dough into the dispenser and pours the deep fat. All other operations, including control of deep-frying temperature, are performed using special devices.
Classic donut donut maker
The simplest donut machine and, naturally, the cheapest, with a minimum amount of automation, includes a heating element, a dispenser, a deep fryer and a pan. An example of such a device is the Pimak D-001 device (Turkey) with a capacity of two hundred donuts per hour.
More complex apparatuses include both a rounding device for molding products, and a device for sprinkling powdered sugar.
Automatic fryers for a small amount of baking themselves perform all the functions, they only load the finished dough and butter, they can produce up to eight hundred donuts per hour.
In addition to the functional characteristics, such an apparatus looks quite aesthetically pleasing, because it is made of stainless steel and polished aluminum, and customers waiting in line can observe the cooking process.
Devices for classic donuts can differ in price, performance, the presence of some devices (or their absence) and appearance. But all these indicators do not affect the taste of the donuts.
Equipment for the production of donuts with filling
Classic donuts are tasty, but always better when you have a choice. This choice is provided by devices that allow you to cook donuts from different types of dough (choux or yeast-free, for example), with various glazes, whether protein or sugar, colored or white, and filled with cream, chocolate, jams and preserves.
Such equipment consists of several devices. In addition to the deep fryer and the dough dispenser, it also includes the filling dispenser, and the dough mixer and enrobing apparatus.
It can also be manual or automatic. Manual devices are equipped with a special grid-pan for turning donuts. The smallest donut machine produces one hundred and sixty items per hour.
Automated lines
The baking production line allows you to cook dozens of types of products. The main equipment of the line includes devices for making dough and making billets, and for yeast donuts there is also a proofer, an automatic deep fat fryer, a mechanical filling dispenser, a cooling conveyor, and a machine for filling ready-made chilled pastries.
The package may include additional devices. You can also purchase separately devices for sprinkling with powdered sugar, installations and nozzles for decorating baking, glazing machines.
Donut Makers
Today on the market there are many manufacturers of equipment for making donuts from the simplest devices to multifunctional lines of different capacities.
You can choose a budget option for a small outlet and for a bakery.
If the business is just starting, it is better to choose products of domestic manufacturers. In addition to affordable prices, the availability of after-sales service is very important. Having bought the most necessary and started to work, you can later buy additional equipment.
The devices for the classic donuts of the Russian companies "Sikom" and "Atesi" include manual or automatic dispensers. The productivity of such devices is from 200 to 600 donuts per hour.
Sinmag or Sigma semi-automatic and automatic rounding dividers are used for forming donuts with filling (donuts and Berliners).
And for filling the donuts, you can use analog machines: Italian Dosiplus or domestic from the Sikom company of the BP-7.02 series. These machines work with fillers of different consistencies, such as creams, jellies and whipped cream, that is, with almost any products that donut recipes require for donut machines. Special replaceable nozzles allow filling both rings (donuts) and oval or round products (berlingers) with fillings.
Home-made donut makers
If the donut making machine is small for home use, you can purchase a homemade mini donut. You need to prepare the dough yourself according to the recipes that are attached to the instructions, load it into the device, pour oil into the container and sit next to the vessel, in which ready-made round and hot products will drop out in a matter of minutes, up to thirty pieces from one bookmark of the dough. Such devices are manufactured by the American company Nostalgia Products Group under the brand Nostalgia Electrics.
You can also use a special device in which six or seven donuts are prepared at a time (this depends on the model of the device and the number of special cells for the test). Donuts do not need oil at all, because the cells are made of stainless steel with a non-stick coating. A heat-insulated handle and special protection on the outside, rubberized legs, indicators for heating the device - the device looks very simple, easy to clean and safe to use.
In this machine, you can cook donuts with any filling, even meat.
Today, the market offers many options for donut machines. The choice depends on the tasks that the device will have to perform, and the financial capabilities of the future owner.