WHY DOUGHNUTS HAVE HOLES?

1. According to Food52, a food group, once bakers started adding egg yolk to their doughnut recipes, the dough became super rich, which made it difficult to cook the pastries evenly. The centre would be gooey and raw while the edges remained crisp. The solution: Get rid of the middle entirely

2. Another riveting theory concerned an American sailor named Hanson

Gregory. According to the story, Gregory, while manning his post one stormy night, found it impossible both to steer his vessel and eat his fried cake. Out of sheer frustration, and probably out of hunger, he put the doughnuts on the spokes of the ship's wheel. Quite pleased with his ingenuity, Gregory ordered the galley's cook to fry the cakes in that manner henceforth.