Donuts Fried in Fat

[paycoguy]

Hello,

I read on wikipedia that donuts used to be fried in pork fat before they switched to processed vegetable oil.

Based on personal testing, I believe the ubiquity of processed vegetable oil in frying is the main reason for the degradation of the health of the US.

I love donuts, but can't find a donut shop in SD that fries donuts in lard. Do you know of any shops that do this?

Thank you!

-andre

[The Chowhound Team]

Folks, we've had to remove some posts about whether or not vegetable oil is unhealthy. Those kinds of discussions are off topic for a regional board. Please keep this discussion focused on helping the poster find lard-fried donuts in the San Diego area.

[paycoguy]

Fair enough. I hear chinese bakeries still fry with fat. I've never been to a chinese bakery here in SD. Can anyone confirm this? How about the mexican bakeries?

If you google cooking donuts in lard, you'll read it creates the best tasting donuts ever.

[foodiechick]

I'm surprised The Linkery restaurant hasn't dabbled in this.

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Linkery
3794 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104

[paycoguy]

Good thinking. I live in north park, so I can easily ask them. A traditional pork lard fried donut would awesome.

The smoking goat in north park has fries fried in duck fat. Those are to die for as well. Shoot I should ask them to make a donut fried in duck fat.