I heard circles are also related to pi but have not had the time to confirm yet.
replyPies are more of a Tau day thing https://www.tauday.com
replyThat's a pi-ty
replyThere 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.
replyThe 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?
replyBeef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose.
replyI 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.
replyA truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.
replyI wonder if they could look to dim sum for inspiration? A apple dumbling is basically just a round apple pie right?
reply> A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
replyCould 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.
replyI didn't get it, so I looked it up.
reply22/7 ~= 3.14
Actually closer to π and matches the more sensible date format.
reply(Yes this is worth fighting over!)
Heating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…
replyWell 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.
replyI 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...
replyIf 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.
replyOne of those spherical ice cube makers but made of cast iron, a little like those little waffle makers.
replyI 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.
replyI would bake it on a pizza stone to ensure an even bake.
replyHas nobody here ever done this? It comes out perfectly cooked.
You cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.
replyIf we don't care what the filling is you could just use sticky rice.
replyA pie like this, to the face of a problematic politician, would add drama and help resurrect the profile of pies as activists!
replyOne could always precook the filling.
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