666 heat? These are the devil's doughnuts.

Oh no. I'm not interested in your ring bud. There are other sites for that sort of thing if you look.

...nonsense, K.K's are overpriced and over-rated...too much fancifying and decoration for my liking. They're the sort of thing you bring in to work if you want to impress the airheads in the office, they look pretty and they give you an air of affluence...I'll admit, a couple of bags of the sainsburys ones chucked on the office table wouldn't provoke quite the same levels of awe and admiration, but would taste a whole lot better! :smile:

...you could probably buy a bottle of champers with what you'd save too :sunglasses:

I call massive ****, I too work as a sainsburys Baker / manager and all of the above is a lie.
All donuts come in frozen and are left to defrost for an hour to ensure a full and even bake.
They go in at a preset temperature for 4 minutes and sugar is instantly applied before they cool down, negating the need for any coating as the heat of the donuts makes the sugar stick.
We use no coating at all because there's no need, and we go through 3kg bags of proper sugar quickly, nowhere near long enough for it to be there for months.
Finally, the ovens get cleaned every single day as it's one of our safe and legal checks.

I've worked for two supermarket chains (not necessarily Sainsburys) and in one case in more than one store within the same chain and I can tell you from experience that out of Environmental Health / Health & Safety, Food Inspectorate and Weights & Measures only the Weights and Measures people actually did anything proactive.

As for the others, they seemed to only turn up after the event and if you are really concerned and called them they apparently would have to give the store notice first!

But to give you an idea of what sorts of things used to go, in my time with those two chains I've seen staff gassed with fumes & taken off to hospital, an electrical fire, untrained contractors operating heavy machinery, contractors consistently failing to exclude staff and customers from active work areas, contractors using a pneumatic drill, without hearing protection and subjecting staff to the noise, untrained staff using forklifts, poor maintenance of equipment, which was reported several times and which eventually lead to an hospitalisation with an head injury, defrosted food put back into freezers (many, many, many times), food which was starting to rot served to customers, fresh food prepared in highly unhygienic conditions, bakers who hadn't washed their hands after taking a sh*t then handling fresh bread... Unfortunately I could go on.

And this wasn't just one store either. From what I've seen most if not all supermarket chains seem to employ barely capable managers and pay them as much. These people are usually stressed, overworked and not particularly competent and yet you as customers rely on them to protect your health & safety.

Oh and as for frozen bakery, apart from the bread most of the "in-store" baked food is or at least was part-baked, frozen, shipped to the store then baked again & packaged when needed.

Yum.

Thats interesting, because if you read above there are a lot of people saying that the Sainsbury ones are far better than the Lidl ones, because Lidl get them in frozen and heat them in an oven - which is exactly what you have just said that Sainsbury also do. :smile::D:D

I am still left wondering what my local Sainsbury do to make them greasy, if they don't actually fry them? And its clearly not just my local one, as someone above has said that doughnuts should be greasy and that is why they prefer the Sainsbury ones...

My local Tescos makes them quite greasy too, tis why I like them

Honestly the manager's process seems to be missing steps, like filling etc. I thought Doughnuts were fried?

I call massive ****, I too work as a sainsburys Baker / manager and all of the above is a lie.
All donuts come in frozen and are left to defrost for an hour to ensure a full and even bake.
They go in at a preset temperature for 4 minutes and sugar is instantly applied before they cool down, negating the need for any coating as the heat of the donuts makes the sugar stick.
We use no coating at all because there's no need, and we go through 3kg bags of proper sugar quickly, nowhere near long enough for it to be there for months.
Finally, the ovens get cleaned every single day as it's one of our safe and legal checks.

Each to their own, but frying properly shouldn't lead to them being greasy, get the temperature and duration just right, and they wont be. But, I suppose, like chips, some people like them greasy, some like them crisp.

​They did.

​I agree. Probably a nasty group of employees in one store who seem to revel in being ar53holes

Nope, because I really love these doughnuts and there's no Sainsbury's near me. :smiley:

​And there out in the open for all to touch....

Wow, a 15p saving.
Just go into Sainsburys about 6.30pm and you will very often find these doughnuts reduced to half price anyway.

Sainsburys donuts are the sh*t, tesco are pretty damn good too.
Stay away from asda and morrisons donuts there ALWAYS undercooked and nasty lol

I was talking about the Lidl ones :laughing:

This would appear to say NO http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SearchDisplayView?msg=&catalogId=10122&langId=44&storeId=10151&krypto=YslFbf%2FLoeoCtXdyTEYQd%2B8gNwb6kRmpVQvw5xdbxtCbFqa1d8AjS0QpbmdrpYjKn60S%2BO%2Bwd5a8DCBp8y43wveekXP6xS2ztW6gPGynqbh0xJbmDjr%2B6e7y5vRk6hvJOZk2ZwjCXNA0FxVsBto3L1h8Xs09n1F%2Fob81DsxhWTAv4HKP3O3zlOsJCpKQssPluynkcsA0hWuRC54hL6kGIg%3D%3D#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10122&categoryId=&parent_category_rn=&top_category=&pageSize=30&orderBy=RELEVANCE&searchTerm=donuts&beginIndex=0&categoryFacetId1=

Greggs do the best doughnuts but, yes, Sainsbury's make the best supermarket doughnuts I've had. They'll probably change the recipe at some point and ruin them completely.

Even an original glazed KK doughnut doesn't compare to a supermarket one,they are a lot nicer in my humble opinion.

The Polish doughnuts are the same as those you get in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and these are all fried. They just puff up nicely, don't sag or collapse in the middle and are not horribly greasy unlike those you get here. Having said that, all supermarket "bakeries" are awful without exception. Most pastries are only shown to the oven rather than baked in them and then put on the shelves in as raw a state as when they came out of the freezer.

Co-op are permanently 2 for £1, vegan too.

I've voted cold. Everyone's stating their own personal choices but really, sainsbury are the last to come in line with the rest of the supermarkets, so I don't see what the big hoohah is, especially when their donuts aren't worth this big song and dance.

They make me violently sick! Maybe *too* much processed plasticy sugary coatings, or whatever it is that's on them!

...nonsense, K.K's are overpriced and over-rated...too much fancifying and decoration for my liking. They're the sort of thing you bring in to work if you want to impress the airheads in the office, they look pretty and they give you an air of affluence...I'll admit, a couple of bags of the sainsburys ones chucked on the office table wouldn't provoke quite the same levels of awe and admiration, but would taste a whole lot better! :smile:

...you could probably buy a bottle of champers with what you'd save too :sunglasses:

...they're at their best when they're a bit greasy with tons of sugar on <3

...doughnuts need to be fried, the 'Lidl's' are probably baked in some way, so not proper doughnuts... ...and icing sugar!!! ...WTF!!!!!! ...has to be castor :wink:

Eat to many of them and you will be cursed with a massive ar5e. :confused:

...because they are disgusting? :smirk:

666 heat? These are the devil's doughnuts.

Personally Morris ons custard doughnuts can't be bettered in my estimation but taste is a personal issue. Have some heat anyway op

I go to Aldi mostly, but occasional Asda/Tesco/Lidl/Coop.

I do agree, these (ring) doughnuts are the best - really light. Nearest Sainsburys is 15miles away, but always go in just for them if I can.

oh, 50p for 5 - like the rest of the supermarkets then.

Oh no. I'm not interested in your ring bud. There are other sites for that sort of thing if you look.

I had the custard Sainsbury ones last week and commented to family that they were nicer than the Asda ones i normally get.

Crispy cream donuts are the best in the UK. The ones from sainsburys are allways dry and horrible !

​wow...that's just put me off all bakery items from all stores forever :confused:

Agree they are lovely was disappointing to see at the start of last year they switched to frozen ready made doughnuts but thankfully due to poor sales and complaints they changed back to baked fresh in store ones back in May last year.

The sweet stuff they sell in the lidl bakery such as doughnuts and cinnamon buns are all taking from the freezer and left out for 2 hours to defrost and then put out for sale their is no baking involved with these i know because my store often has no cinnamon bun's out so i buy them in a tray of 6 still frozen staff are happy to give them to me from bakery freezer.

Really? For a 15 pence reduction in price?

chuck em in the microwave for 5 seconds ^^

Yeah,these ones can only be touched by Sainsbury's employees :wink:

You know how something starts off lovely and they cut corners to save money etc and it ends up tasting like cardboard? So glad these haven't been effected by that yet.