The donuts I purchased on January 2 -- solely for the purpose of this experiment -- have been in my car since that day. This was the day that I pulled out the camera and took photos of them for the first time. Note that you can click on each picture to get a larger picture to pop up.
I actually checked on them about two weeks ago, and they had all shrunk. Each of them had lost about an inch of diameter, likely due to the cold we had here in Nevada. (In fact, there was a period of time where the temperature didn't rise above freezing for close to 10 days.) Now that the weather has warmed again, though, the donuts are close to their normal size. You can tell, though, that they shrunk when you look at them close up:
When the donuts shrank, the icing lifted away from the donut, leaving a protective shell that is no longer coating the surface. It's flaked off the edges on some of them, but many of the donuts have their shell completely intact.
The upshot of it being so cold? Stale donuts don't have a chance to turn nasty and start stinking. Now that the weather's getting warmer, though, I'll have to think of some other place to store them.
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