Norpro Donut Maker

This is a great little tool. It's very simple, but works great. Thin your batter and be sure to grease the dispenser well. When you drop the donuts into the grease it is about a one second count, any longer and they'll be too big and doughy inside.

Helps to make nice round pancakes. Haven’t tried it for donuts but I see how it would work. Easy to clean which is good because you shouldn’t put it in a dishwasher.

I used to use my 60 year old Popeil donut maker. Then the plastic broke so I thought i would try this one. It works almost as well and I made 60 donuts with one recipe! I recommend just soaking it in your dishwater and it’s easy to clean. You need a good recipe to make good donuts and the batter should be thick, otherwise it will be a runny mess. Here is the Popeil recipe that I like: 2.25 cups flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg, 1 Tbs softened butter, 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla and 3/4 cup milk. Add wet ingredients to dry. Fry in 2” of oil at 365 degrees. Drain on paper towels and roll in sugar. It takes a bit of practice. Keep the dough 1” above the oil when you dispense it for better control. The main difference that is a negative for me between the two donut makers is the spacing between the container and the Small base at bottom. The Popeil has a larger space to let more dough through, this can be remedied by holding it open longer but then it takes longer to make them

This was a very disappointing purchase. Based on the 4± star reviews, I had much higher hope for this donut maker than it delivered. My batch of donuts was fried using a digital thermometer to verify temperature according to the recipe in the instruction manual. Donuts were VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY uneven. No amount of adjusting seemed to help balance the donut ring. One side was ALWAYS very thin, one side was always very fat. The dropper makes uneven donuts. If you waited for the fat side to cook all the way through, the thin side burned. If you took it out before the thin side burned, the fat side had raw batter inside. This was a profoundly disappointing exercise in donut making for National Donut Day. I wanted a way to fry cake based donuts because oven-baked donuts are just sadness. This was somehow worse. Very disappointing.

Cheap/small/you get what you pay for.

My first batch of doughnuts came out fine, see photo. The hole isn't always as round as it could be, but that's of no concern to me. I will fine-tune the recipes for proper batter viscosity and proper drop placement into the fryer and they'll be perfect. I made the Old-Fashioned doughnuts, in regular and chocolate, with sugar, or sugar & cinnamon, or sugar & chocolate as the coatings. All three coatings came out well and the doughnuts taste excellent. All of the recipes included with the doughnut maker are good. The Norpro doughnut maker takes away the steps of having to roll-out dough and cut-out the doughnuts. It's just plop, plop and the doughnuts are frying. Two cups of batter in the maker will make about 20 doughnuts. There is no better Norpro doughnut maker made, it makes fine doughnuts and is easy to clean. I'm very happy with this doughnut maker and I'm sure it will make many hundreds of dozens of excellent tasting doughnuts for me, and my friends.

First try and it was a success. I did the Old Fashioned doughnut recipe (cut in half) from the booklet. Mixed it in measuring cup with a spout for easier transfer to the donut maker = minimal mess. I weighed my ingredients and aimed for pancake batter consistency. Oil the inside of the maker as instructed to help the dough/ batter flow. It took me two tries to figure out the drop speed. I used chopsticks to adjust the shape and to turn them. They are bit awkward shapes but the kids approved!!! Can’t wait to try other recipes!!!

could not get the hang of it but that is not saying it is not a good product. maybe i just couldnt figure it out