My first batch of doughnuts came out fine, see photo. The hole isn't always as round as it could be, but that's of no concern to me. I will fine-tune the recipes for proper batter viscosity and proper drop placement into the fryer and they'll be perfect. I made the Old-Fashioned doughnuts, in regular and chocolate, with sugar, or sugar & cinnamon, or sugar & chocolate as the coatings. All three coatings came out well and the doughnuts taste excellent. All of the recipes included with the doughnut maker are good. The Norpro doughnut maker takes away the steps of having to roll-out dough and cut-out the doughnuts. It's just plop, plop and the doughnuts are frying. Two cups of batter in the maker will make about 20 doughnuts. There is no better Norpro doughnut maker made, it makes fine doughnuts and is easy to clean. I'm very happy with this doughnut maker and I'm sure it will make many hundreds of dozens of excellent tasting doughnuts for me, and my friends.