[REPOSTED FROM DEC 8, 2009] EVER WONDERED HOW “SUFGANIYOT” ARE MADE? As chanukah is just around the corner, join YWN Israel together with the fine bakers at the Yesh Bakery in Modi’in Illit for a quick two-minute narrated tour of how sufganiyot, our favorite chanukah treat, are made. From the oven to the deep-fryer, and then from the baking pan to the store shelf, three lucky kids got to watch their yummy treats being made – and then eat them – on the house!
Click HERE for the video taken by Yehuda Boltshauser / Kuvien.
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Yesh is in Modiin Illit also known as Kiryat Sefer.
sorry to spoil the party, but as any american who has tasted most israeli “doughnuts” knows, they usually taste like challa injected with jelly. they’re dense and tasteless. so, i personally would title this “how NOT to make doughnuts”…
The best sufganiyot in the United States is Ostrivitzky’s bakery on Ave. J. The owner is an Israeli and boy, are they good!
You probably tasted from the wrong bakeries. Uri’s makes the best caramel donuts in Israel! Also Nechama and Yaaleh, plus I think there’s another bakery called Shefa that’s terrific too.
I would love to buy one of those caramel donuts now- no one seems to make them as good as Uris, especially warm out of the frying pan!
I am shocked at what goodbye wrote – sufganiot far far superior to ‘cotton ball’-like american doughnuts…..
those look amazing!
Hey #4, Unfortunatley I agree with #2 (Goodbye)..I have yet to find a sufganiyah in Israel that does not taste like JIC. (Jam Injected Challah)….Where is Uri’s? Do you mean the Pizza Shop in Geulah?
after watching this video, and listening to the baker’s commentary, I finally understood why the doughnuts here are dense and heavy like (dense and heavy)challa. they actually BAKE them first, (notice how he said that what you’re watching him do is “after you take them out of the “owven”) and then they put them in lukewarm oil to float around on top for a few minutes so that they look as if they were fried… (noticed how there was no action in that oil?) presto! brown topped fried-look challa!
hate to meragel but the pizza in israel is worse thay cant seem to mange to get the right ingredints ect…
WHO CARES which are “made” better.
The ones in Eretz Yisrael come with the taam of Eretz Yisrael.
I’d rather be eating the worst sufganiya or pizza in Israel, than the best anywhere else!
Who in the world is talking about pizza?
That’s my bakery guy at Yesh in Kiryat Sefer and he makes great dounuts! (
thanks mr boltshauser and ywn for bringing us great stuff to get us in the mood for chanuka!
Right on #10!! And Israel is the only place that you have to go to the Mafia to get good sufganiyot!
Between kosher Tootsie Rolls, kosher frozen pizza, and sufganiyot, it seems the editors of YWN would be perfectly happy for its readers to be unhealthy, not to mention morbidly obese. Eating this junk is suicide on the installment plan. Keep posting articles on health and healthy eating by Alan Freishtat. Somewhere, maybe, you’ll find balance.
locknload = Alan Freishtat? LOL
#15 — No, I’m not Alan Freishtat. B’emes, one should ask his or her rov whether there’s a heter to eat what any nutritionist, not only Alan Freishtat, knows will have long term negative effects on one’s health. America has never before seen a generation of young people so grossly overweight, and it all came about through soft drinks, candy, and sundry junk food, including pizza. Obese children become obese adolescents and adults. Diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular problems in middle age or earlier can all be traced to a poor diet. The purveyors of these kosher processed foods loaded with sugar, bleached flour, and fat will one day give a din v’cheshbon for enticing the kashrus conscience public to destroy their gesundt with their toxic wares.
Bubby. wrong again the best donuts are made by Schreiber Bakery on Ave M bet Nostrand and E. 31 st. Take my word for it.
The Guy (called Guy) who was speaking on the video is the nicest person I have ever met working in this supermarket. He is a total mensch; and even gives the kids an extra squirt of jelly/chocolate/caramel in their donut if they request it.