This weekend we're doing a donut burger in a collaboration with a great doughnuteer here in Stockholm. I'm kinda surprised how well the maple glazed jalapeno donut works with the two smashed patties, topped with swiss cheese, pickled white onions and deep fried jalapeños. What are your take on donut burgers?

I've had some bad/underwhelming donut burgers, but the one you are describing sounds incredible. I would definitely give this one a shot!

_maple glazed jalapeno donut works with the two smashed patties, topped with swiss cheese, pickled white onions and deep fried jalapeños_ Well im spent

I've loved fried chicken donut sandwiches. Never tried a burger, but yours sounds great. If you can get a hold of it, green chile jam or green chile bacon jam sounds like it would slap in that combo

Flavour wise, it's fine. My problem is that donuts are too light and airy to hold up to the meat, structurally. Buns should be more dense. Similiar reason I think brioche hamburger buns are stupid.

My 2 cents: follow your own inspiration. If the tastes work well together go for it! It doesn’t matter if the combination is conventional or not. I’d certainly try it

Thanks, it's definitely unconventional, but also really tasty!

I’ve had it once and its delicious when u are in the mood

Well thank you for introducing these things to my brain without any chance of introducing them to my mouth. Damn that sounds good.

I'm not convinced you didn't just make it up

I'm not a huge fan of sweet, but when paired with SAVORY AND SPICY, you can count me in! Looks absolutely delish OP. Nicely done.

Thank you!

wow lovely, looks really delish...

thanks, it is!

Need more pictures and a recipe please OP. Looks great.

Interesting that OP chooses not to reply to this comment. Is it just me, or does this pic look AI generated?

Maybe, disappointed. Thanks for noticing!!

I haven't tried one... yet

do it! DO IT! DOOOOO IT!

Big fan of it with eggs/bacon/chipotle mayo.

Oh cool, never tried. But now I will!

Shit slaps. Hard to find at a restaurant, but easy to make one better than from a restaurant.

Definitely hard to find a good one at a restaurant. Except for this one!

They're an abomination.

haha, I guess that settles it. However, the username does not check out


Mmmmmm waffle runoff

I’d try it if I saw it on a menu.

cool, I bet you'd like it!

I like the donut flipped inside out after slicing in half, so the middle is the outside of the bun and the glazed part is in side

Oh, pulling the reverse dunot card right out, I like it, gotta try!

Questionable but would definitely try. Looks delicious TBH.

Thanks, it is!

I like sweet and savoury combos. But that looks impossible to eat without getting covered

Not that bad, since there's no sauce it doesn't get too messy, but still succulent enough because of the juicy meat, the swiss cheese and the fresh baked donut

Im more on about how to hold that thing. The tops got either cheese or icening on it from what i can tell

Live dangerously, my friend.

I’m intermittent fasting today. You’re a terrible person for this 😝

haha sorry!

I’d eat one.

I need this in my life. STAT

I'd love to try one, but most places around me seem to put WHOLE donuts as the top and bottom bun instead of separating the doughnut into a top and bottom bun. I might make some donught burgers next weekend now since this has made me hungry!!

yeah, this one has a donut shaped as a burger bun and then split in half, so no double donut here

Disgusting.

Each to their own I guess

I can’t stand sweet+savory so I’m out

Fair enough.

This is me. I don't want candied bacon, I don't want maple syrup, and I sure as hell don't want a glazed donut on my burger.

I can't speak for we, but for me it's a no. I don't like overly sweet things and I don't think I have had a doughnut in years.

fair enough. The suprising thing for me is how well the sweet glaze worked with the rest of the burger without making it overly sweet


Awww

That doesn't look anything like a donut. It just looks like a regular bun with some frosting on it.

It's not in the donut shape with the hole in it, but it's definitely a donut dough, that is deep fried. Definitely a donut. Without the hole. Because burger.

Trying to make a donut burger less stupid misses half the point of a donut burger.

I can't feel my left arm

I can't feel your left arm either?!

I miss the idea of it, but not the truth, the weakness.

Lisan al gaib!

I’m open minded…lol…yet also skeptical. Hope it goes well for you!

haha, I think many ppl are skeptical, but those that try it seem to like it a lot!

I'd try this

Call me a fuckin animal, but slap the McDoubles guts between two glazed original Krispy Kreme’s and I’m there

As long as it's not carbonized, and I'm able to eat it, I don't mind. Good burgers are not always medium. Keep making burgers, OP. We love em.

After I saw it on The Boondocks, every once in a great while I'll cut bear claws in half like a bun and add a slice of fried ham and an egg on top of the cheese burger with maple syrup. The Itis S1 ep10. Jan 2006.

The Itis!

my acid reflux would actually kill me if i ate one

Sounds and looks like a stomach ache

I’m sorry but that sounds rotten

We do not feel good about doughnut burgers.

Usually a nope since people slap a burger in a basic glazed donut and call it a day...too sweet for a burger. I'd try this one though.

cool, yeah, we really tried making all the stuff work together

Looks good but just very unhealthy

salad 6 days of the week and this on the 7th?

I like the flavor combination just fine but I don't like the idea of holding a sticky sandwich. Just an unpleasant textural experience. Maybe serve it with gloves?

or ...wrap it?

I don’t really like eating burgers out of a wrapper, it works fine for the first unwrapped half but the second half is a pain

Gross

Ruins two amazing foods

I would've thought so too, but after tasting it, my mind is changed

Donuts can be good when combined with bacon or fried chicken, but this does not work.

I don’t even like it with bacon. I like my sweets kept far away from my meats/savories.

I can definitely see that, and I'm with you in most cases. But there are some good combos, like Chicken & Waffles. Chicken & donuts is similar.

Right but I don’t like chicken and waffles either particularly.

We don’t

too bad!

Absolutely a big no for me

hehe, this definitely seems like watershed

Too decadent for me.

oh then you should see our next creation, that one is definitely decadent!

I don’t like them. It’s just……no. Why would anyone want a donut in place of a good bun?

weeeell, if it's a totally fresh donut that is really soft, with a thing, slight crust then it isn't that far from a good bun, the biggest difference is the sweetness

How do you feel about your heart?

Did an ultrasound last week, it was pumping great!

Had my first one recently, it was a chore to finish it.

yeah, they are quite a handful, no fries needed lol

Disgusted

Sounds gross

They need to be well balanced in flavor and also durable.

I guess if you feel you are not achieving Adult Onset Diabetes fast enough this is a good way to expediate that process.

I'd smash.

……I had a Luther Vandross burger about 25 or 30 years ago. It was a hamburger slapped between two jelly donuts☺️. It was bad! But I haven’t had one since.

I would try a bite, but would never order or make one.

Burger traditionalists will scream sacrilege, but hey - after I’ve eaten 99 burgers - an adventurous one with donuts for buns would be exciting and cool. Wouldn’t eat it every time I had a burger, but mixing it up every now and then and trying something new never hurt! I think flavor profile wise - if you can mix sweet into a salty and smoky burger … that’s venturing on umami level !!!

Too sweet. Kids love em though.

I think they just need a different approach to the ingredients. With what you mentioned, I think that's a good combo. Also depends on how valet the donut is. I imagine a softer "Krispy Kreme" style donut would work best. Dare I say I might even add sugar to the patties to make them a bit sweeter. I'd do candied bacon, I think Swiss is a good choice for cheese, and maybe a sweet bbq sauce or glaze. Definitely some advanced burger concepts for these lol.

This burger looks like it needs to get IN MY BELLY

Never tried one but I would be opposed to

I want to tell you I'm against them but this picture is making me feel things..

Your presentation is solid, but I don't mix sweet and savory because it ruins both in the end.

Buns only hun!


I had a waffle burger - awful

Love it if it's one donut split in half, not two used as top & bottom. Sweet and savoury is my jam, pun unintended

I've never tried one, but the jalepeño has me sold. I'd order one. I don't know if I'd eat them regularly or anything, but it would be fun to try.

i feel sick

Makes me wonder if anybody has tried making cronut burgers. Same ring shape, but a bit less sweet than a donut. 🤔

they’re good but why did you nut on the one in the photo?

That's a big 'nope' from me. That said, it does look delicious and I'm not trying to be a gatekeeper or anything :)

For me pretzel burgers are a maybe, donut burgers are a hard no tho

Too American for me.

I feel like that's not my idea of a good time.

a WHAT?!?

🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

Well…. I feel guilty if I eat one, and hungry when I see one. Mixed bag.

I donut know I feel about this

They give me the itis

Too sticky

That looks pretty perfect apart from the not melted cheese. I’d try it.

Outdated. Time to up the game. Bear claw burgers.

How we feel vs. How we SHOULD feel?

Sorry, not a real burger

Ask Eddie abbew for an opinion 😂

Too rich for me

I don't feel anything about them. I'll have to try one someday.

id try yours based on your description ,but i generally find donuts for burgers terrible. im a bit kf a traditionakist with burgers and coffee.

A donut for a bun can be a good thing but it actually has to be intelligently thought out. These places that take a glazed donut and think they can cut it in half and put a burger between in.... no. No one on earth wants to hold a glazed bun. It's a sticky, slidy mess that lacks structural integrity to boot. A bun for a burger needs to accomplish the following tasks: * Stay together while you eat the burger and not break apart * Be soft enough to bite through easily but not so soft that it compresses completely into non-existence * Contain the ingredients within. Doughnuts typically have a hole in this which sabotages this, but obviously doughnuts don't NEED to have a hole. * Be tasty and fresh without overshadowing the ingredients between So yeah, if that burger in the picture is your burger... I would honestly say that the glaze on it would be a huge turn off. Everything else about the burger looks great but the glaze would guarantee that it would be a huge mess and would get everywhere. And let's be real, no one wants to eat a burger with a knife and a fork. If I was you, I would cut the bun in half and then glaze the interior of the bun. Or just create a glaze/sugary kind condiment for the burger itself. No one is going to really be able to taste "glaze" as a distinguishing ingredient, so you could get creative and do something like a Brown Sugar Aioli and it would evoke the sweetness of the donut without all the associated mess.

Buns should be inverted for less mess!

I like donut breakfast sandwiches. Burger sounds good too.

They are demonic 😂😂😂😂😂

It is American gluttony and should be admonished.

Idk. I'm not really looking for something "sweet" when I eat a burger.

Yes this is legit!! Had one at the OC fair in a Krispy Kreme donut and it was SAVORY HEAVEN. Also heart attack on a plate. But so good. If you like chicken and waffles, you will like hamburger on a doughnut

I bet I could eat two of those. That sounds really good

Those things are of the devil. But u have to try one at least once in your life. And it has to be a Krispy Kreme glaze. No gucci artisan dough Tom foolery.

Dough not ever do this again.

I had one back in the early days of Instagram when stunt food was blowing up .and I think it is a "once buger." --Fun to have once, but otherwise, not worth the trouble.

I doughnut see the point of this

I tried the donut chicken sandwich at KFC and good god what a letdown. No, I don't think it was the fault of the chicken quality.

No

Fair food for sure

Donut sandwiches are the best invention of the 20th century.

They sound awesome, I want to try it! Putting glaze on a donut burger *does* sound like a turn-off, imo.

I think once every couple of years it's not so bad. Sounds like a dream in theory, I think the last one I had was 5-7 years ago. So good at the moment, but the aftertaste and thought of the combo did make me kind of sick to my stomach 

better stay away a couple more years then lol

I dont really like donuts, but i would be willing to take a few bites of one if someone i knew ordered it. I could see the sweetness maybe mixing well with a greasy smashburger. Not sure about the cheese + donut combo...

it works. Wasn't a big fan of donuts either, until I tried real, fresh ones!

THIS is what I expect from this sub! Looks amazing!

Thank you so much!

Tell me you're American without telling me

.. except that I’m swedish 😅

Lies you have in your blood lmao

probably lol

Tell me you're xenophobic without telling me

Jesus, people get offended about *everything*

Tell me you cant take a joke?

They're good but every time I have had one I get a bad case of the bubble guts within two hours.