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A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
by CrazyStat 8mo ago
A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
- hinkley 8mo agoHeating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…
- _aavaa_ 8mo agoWell 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.
- mordechai9000 8mo agoI 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...
- thatguy0900 8mo agoIf we don't care what the filling is you could just use sticky rice.
- _aavaa_ 7mo agoIf 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.
- reactordev 7mo agoI would bake it on a pizza stone to ensure an even bake. Has nobody here ever done this? It comes out perfectly cooked.
- raddan 7mo agoYou cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.
- reactordev 7mo agoI cook a circular pie on a pizza stone.
- Nevermark 7mo agoA pie like this, to the face of a problematic politician, would add drama and help resurrect the profile of pies as activists!
- redundantly 7mo agoOne could always precook the filling.
- addaon 7mo agoI’m pretty sure that the state of the art right now is firing the pastries on a ballistic arc in hard vacuum and hitting them mid-trajectory with a laser pulse to cook them through.
- MrJohz 7mo agoThe 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?
- walthamstow 7mo agoBritish steak and kidney pudding (a steamed pie of suet pastry) is a truncated cone shape, could go spherical with the right pastry case.
- raddan 7mo agoA truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.
- Fluorescence 7mo agoBeef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose. I suspect that deep-fried-battered haggis might exist which could be very spherical.
- fmbb 7mo agoI heard circles are also related to pi but have not had the time to confirm yet.
- inigyou 7mo agoThat's a pi-ty
- NegativeLatency 7mo agoPies are more of a Tau day thing https://www.tauday.com https://www.tauday.com
- gdhkgdhkvff 7mo agoSure would be a lot easier if we could just have “4 right angles”-day
- ant6n 7mo ago> 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.
- fsagx 7mo agoI didn't get it, so I looked it up. 22/7 ~= 3.14
- emmelaich 7mo agoActually closer to π and matches the more sensible date format. (Yes this is worth fighting over!)
- xxs 7mo agowhile true that month being 1st making little sense, the good format usually features leading zeros, so '22/07'
- fuzztester 7mo ago355 / 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi
- cmehdy 7mo agoNow 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.
- dessimus 7mo agoSo a "Parker square" of pies then?
- harimau777 7mo agoI wonder if they could look to dim sum for inspiration? A apple dumbling is basically just a round apple pie right?
- AngryData 7mo agoThere 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.
- DiggyJohnson 7mo agoIsn’t that essentially a stuffed pudding? Or do some use pie dough
- AngryData 7mo agoFrom what I understand many of the pie doughs of the period were the same thing as pudding dough, everyone had a pot to boil stuff in and it was just extra if you had an oven and pie pans, sometimes with noted cooking times for a pan at the end. The that era of American cooking kind of blends puddings and pies so that they mean basically the same thing. Similar someone making a pan fried rice recipe today and just adding on the end of the recipe if you are fancy and own an actual wok you can adjust cooking times for that.