in the kitchenCutting by hand
also: the bench · hand-cut · the cutter
A shop that says hand-cut on the window is drawing a line, and everyone in the trade knows which one.
Rolling sheeted dough and cutting rings with a two-ring cutter, rather than depositing or buying pre-formed shells.
The story Cited · wp-doughnut
Cutters with two concentric circles were on sale by 1870, which is when the ring and its hole became a manufactured thing rather than a trick with a pepper box. A ring can also be made by joining the ends of a rope of dough, or by stretching a disc until the middle tears.
How it is done Cited · wp-doughnut
Sheet, cut in rows, lift the rings onto screens, gather and re-roll the scrap once — twice makes it tough.
Today Cited · wp-doughnut
Hand-cut is a claim a shop makes on its sign. This project records the claim and its source, and does not test it.
The particulars
| kind | cut |
|---|---|
| region | The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
Where we got it
- Doughnut — Wikipedia · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.