[CrazyStat]

A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).

[fmbb]

I heard circles are also related to pi but have not had the time to confirm yet.

[NegativeLatency]

Pies are more of a Tau day thing https://www.tauday.com

[gdhkgdhkvff]

Sure would be a lot easier if we could just have “4 right angles”-day

[inigyou]

That's a pi-ty

[ant6n]

> 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.

[cmehdy]

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.

[fsagx]

I didn't get it, so I looked it up.

22/7 ~= 3.14

[AngryData]

There 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]

Isn’t that essentially a stuffed pudding? Or do some use pie dough

[MrJohz]

The 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?

[Fluorescence]

Beef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose.

I suspect that deep-fried-battered haggis might exist which could be very spherical.

[walthamstow]

British steak and kidney pudding (a steamed pie of suet pastry) is a truncated cone shape, could go spherical with the right pastry case.

[harimau777]

I wonder if they could look to dim sum for inspiration? A apple dumbling is basically just a round apple pie right?

[hinkley]

Heating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…

[addaon]

I’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.

[_aavaa_]

Well 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.

[redundantly]

One could always precook the filling.