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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Related: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I think i remember seeing that. The donuts were like 90% for some holiday

[–] operationalHazard@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poland is still fairly religious and I've heard accounts of the amount some people eat on Fat Thursday on the leadup to Easter. Pretty sure that a specific type of donut is quite popular for it. So yeah, probably related

Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I wish donuts were that cheap near me. The dollars to donuts phrase has been backward for like at least 10 years in my area.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns...

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe the frying is the special sauce in making them more flammable? Fry donuts with a donut-fueled stove to get more donuts for fuel.