Hi, I'm Holly Frey.
Do you love doughnuts?
Because I know I do.
Sometimes it's a little
bit of a problem.
What's really cool is how
Krispy Kreme doughnuts,
specifically, are made.
A large scale Krispy Kreme store
will make more than 100,000
doughnuts every single day.
I mean, they're like a
juggernaut of the bakery
industry, and the process
is really kind of fabulous.
First it starts, as
one would suspect,
with the dough which gets mixed.
But then it goes into
a top secret machine,
it's all proprietary, which
basically turns that dough
into the magical,
puffy, round shape
with the hole in the middle
that we all love so much.
Then they actually take a
20 minute conveyor belt ride
through what's called
a proofing box.
And that's basically
an environment
that's set up to have
just the right temperature
and humidity that
the dough rises
to absolute
delicious perfection.
Then comes the excitement.
Because once it gets done
in the proofing box, it gets
flipped into a river
of 350 degree oil.
But it only stays
there 45 seconds
before it gets
flipped over again
into another vat of hot oil.
And then once it gets
flipped out of that river,
it goes onto another
conveyor belt
where it magically glides
underneath a waterfall
of glaze, which sounds
kind of heavenly to me.
After it's done with
the glaze process,
your Krispy Kreme takes a
nice, leisurely 45 minute ride
around the store.
And during that
time it's cooling
off so that you can eat it.
Because if you ate it when it
was truly hot you might die.
It would just be too
much to even deal with.
After it cools down
just a bit, that's
when they can put
them on the shelves
and have the "Hot
Doughnut Now" sign lit up,
and you run to it
like a moth to flame.
Pop those babies in
your mouth and enjoy
the magic that is a
Krispy Kreme donut.
Loved by everyone on the
planet from the Dalai Lama
to the Pope, I'm pretty sure.
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