Yes, me too. Reading the caveat "– and she would give each pie away" made a lot more sense.
It's a social commitment at least as much as a creative/culinary one, and since there aren't a lot of people you'd want to give a pie minus a slice to, that keeps the extra calories under control.
There are some old 18th century pies they cooked in boiling water inside a bag which could be quite spherical. Townsends on youtube has some videos on it.
The first two things that spring to mind are pasties from the UK (which are not usually spherical but can get quite hemispherical), and the "UFO-Döner" from Germany (which are more oblate spheroids). Maybe by combining these ideas, your friend can get closer to their dream?
Well if you insert metal rods through it you can help with the heat transfer, then you can lattice over the holes. If you pumpkin pie it, you might even be able to have it hold up under its own weight. Plus a bit of stiff whipped cream in the holes would help.
I would make them fairly small (personal pie-sized) and use a filling that doesn't need to be cooked in the oven to set. The main limiting factors, I think, would be structural integrity and heating the filling to the center. You could set it on a ring (like the rim of a spring-form pan) to support it better during cooking. Now, a four dimensional hyper pie, on the other hand...
If you’re not cooking the filling, then do a teflon ballon that you put the crust on. Cook. Remove balloon. Then pipe in ready to ready to set chocolate cream.
Yes, me too. Reading the caveat "– and she would give each pie away" made a lot more sense.
It's a social commitment at least as much as a creative/culinary one, and since there aren't a lot of people you'd want to give a pie minus a slice to, that keeps the extra calories under control.
Yep. And if one gives away the "QC Passed" pies - then as your skill improves, you're eating an ever-shrinking fraction of your output.
And you feel like you're growing ever-thinner, as all your friends & neighbors eat more and more pies. ;)
Do I exercise and eat healthy?
"Yes, I am in shape (round is a shape)"
A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
I heard circles are also related to pi but have not had the time to confirm yet.
Pies are more of a Tau day thing https://www.tauday.com
That's a pi-ty
There are some old 18th century pies they cooked in boiling water inside a bag which could be quite spherical. Townsends on youtube has some videos on it.
The first two things that spring to mind are pasties from the UK (which are not usually spherical but can get quite hemispherical), and the "UFO-Döner" from Germany (which are more oblate spheroids). Maybe by combining these ideas, your friend can get closer to their dream?
Beef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose.
I suspect that deep-fried-battered haggis might exist which could be very spherical.
British steak and kidney pudding (a steamed pie of suet pastry) is a truncated cone shape, could go spherical with the right pastry case.
A truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.
I wonder if they could look to dim sum for inspiration? A apple dumbling is basically just a round apple pie right?
> A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
Could also do it on pi approximation day (July 22), then one doesn't have to be so exact about it.
Now I'm considering making a Matt Parker pie: a spherical pie made from a normal pie + calling it close enough in 2 out of 3 dimensions.
I didn't get it, so I looked it up.
22/7 ~= 3.14
Actually closer to π and matches the more sensible date format.
(Yes this is worth fighting over!)
355 / 113
( = 3.1415929204 )
is one approximation I have read about, attributed by some, to ancient or medieval Indian or Chinese mathematicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi
Heating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…
Well if you insert metal rods through it you can help with the heat transfer, then you can lattice over the holes. If you pumpkin pie it, you might even be able to have it hold up under its own weight. Plus a bit of stiff whipped cream in the holes would help.
I would make them fairly small (personal pie-sized) and use a filling that doesn't need to be cooked in the oven to set. The main limiting factors, I think, would be structural integrity and heating the filling to the center. You could set it on a ring (like the rim of a spring-form pan) to support it better during cooking. Now, a four dimensional hyper pie, on the other hand...
If you’re not cooking the filling, then do a teflon ballon that you put the crust on. Cook. Remove balloon. Then pipe in ready to ready to set chocolate cream.
One of those spherical ice cube makers but made of cast iron, a little like those little waffle makers.
I don’t think those will work, you want the outer surface to be crispy. The dough’s gotta go on the outside of the sphere.
I would bake it on a pizza stone to ensure an even bake.
Has nobody here ever done this? It comes out perfectly cooked.
You cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.
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If we don't care what the filling is you could just use sticky rice.
A pie like this, to the face of a problematic politician, would add drama and help resurrect the profile of pies as activists!
One could always precook the filling.
half way there, now you just have to find the frictionless vacuum
The pie calculation for spherical you would be 3*volume / 4*radius^3.
Eating enough pie could help with that