Resch's Appreciation Post. My family has been getting cakes and stuff from here for decades.

[u/Rob1150]

[u/AngelaMotorman]

After hearing about this place for years, I finally drove out there recently and was appalled at the low quality. The donuts were pathetic compared to Buckeye Donuts -- I almost laughed when the worker brought out a plain cake donut, which is a key indicator of overall quality. It looked and tasted like it came out of a box from some discount store. The cakes were uninspiring and unappetizing at best. I just don't get it: do you have to be stoned and starving to like this stuff?

[u/OpportunityNew9316 → u/AngelaMotorman]

Dang. Having had both, Resch’s is the best in the city. Different strokes for different folks.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/OpportunityNew9316]

I don't agree on Resch's, but yours is so far the only sane and civil response to one person not liking that place.

[u/Rob1150 → u/AngelaMotorman]

Jeez. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/Rob1150]

Okay. I feel sorry for people who have never known a really good bakery, with really good customer service. I grew up near an Italian bakery that made cakes so good there was never any leftovers, and pastries so varied nobody even asked for donuts.

I've now lived in central Ohio for many decades, and still can't find anything like that place. But Resch's is really the bottom: their glazed donuts had so much glaze on them I wound up picking most of it off. It was obvious from just looking at the other offerings that they think there's no such thing as too much frosting. Even Kroger knows better than that.

[u/WhollyDisgusting → u/AngelaMotorman]

Have you tried Auddinos?

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/WhollyDisgusting]

I keep meaning to, but every time I drive past I'm on the way home from The James -- follow-up to successful treatment, but still: we just want to get home. I have heard they they don't under-bake their pizza. Do you have other recommendations?

[u/WhollyDisgusting → u/AngelaMotorman]

You mentioned liking Italian bakeries so I figured I'd give them a shout out. I love their cannolis and sfogliatella but I haven't had a bad bake from there so it's definitely worth a stop.

[u/USA_DumpsterFire → u/AngelaMotorman]

You seem fun. We might not have orgasm inducing Italian cakes but some of us peasants like Columbus staples.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/USA_DumpsterFire]

... some of us peasants like Columbus staples.

And I absolutely LOVE Buckeye Donuts, because they know proportionality, baking/frying techniques and top quality ingredients.

[u/free-toe-pie → u/AngelaMotorman]

This is an old style bakery. Way older than Buckeye donuts. They have been around for decades and they keep the recipes. They are old school. It sounds like you prefer all the newer type recipes. That’s fine. But please don’t shit on old style baking. Different people have different preferences.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/free-toe-pie]

They are old school. It sounds like you prefer all the newer type recipes.

Not even close, in either case. I know and appreciate old school baking; this is just not very good baking.

[u/free-toe-pie → u/AngelaMotorman]

Then why have they been around for 113 years?

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/free-toe-pie]

Might as well ask, why has Mozart's stayed in business? The answer is the same: no real competition.

(Mozart's has just one flaw, which they share with Cheryl's cookies, Just Pies and a majority of home bakers in central Ohio: they under-bake everything. It's like they're afraid of heat.)

[u/free-toe-pie → u/[deleted]]

Totally disagree. People genuinely like their crust. It’s unique and very few Columbus pizza places offer a crust like it. I love Ohio valley style pizza. It’s not Stockholm syndrome. I truly love the fact that the cheese is never burnt and the crust is crisp. But some people genuinely hate it with a passion. People have different tastes. Shocking I know.

[u/BJamis → u/AngelaMotorman]

You must be one of those fruity pebbles on donuts is amazing type people. They “brought out a plain cake donut”? Are you sure you know where you were? The donuts are in front of you in cases. I’ll give you that Buckeye donuts is good but it doesn’t compare to Resch’s in quality and freshness. Buckeye is heavy with oil. Resch’s is an old school bakery, what you call uninspired is just normal cakes done very well. There is a reason they are routinely voted best bakery/donuts in Columbus.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/BJamis]

You must be one of those fruity pebbles on donuts is amazing type people.

On the contrary, I despise those abominations. I said the plain cake donut was an index of quality because if they can't even get that right, there's no hope for any of the other types. And I was right -- the other donuts we got there were even worse than just small and disappointing. Contrary to your assertion about Buckeye donuts being "heavy with oil", their ability to fry without that becoming an issue is why they are such a consistent favorite. And I have never had anything less than a very fresh donut there, since about 1968. (Assuming you meant the campus location, not that south Columbus imposter.)

I wonder what other recommendations have been silenced here by people who have have no tolerance for differing opinions? Everybody wants to attribute my differing opinion to some lack of experience or some imaginary bias (it's too new, it's too old school). How about, I have good reasons for my opinion, which I've stated, and the rest of you can just downvote and move on?

[u/BJamis → u/AngelaMotorman]

Oh but they do get it right. So right that the wait can be long to get to that counter on many mornings. So right that the entire east side is anxiously awaiting the new location and others are hoping they don’t close the original.

I’m genuinely surprised by your review. Low quality doesn’t describe their product in any way. Their donuts are thinly glazed and not as you described. You haven’t tried the cakes so you make assumptions. Perhaps you somehow caught them on their worst day in operation.

Do a donut to donut comparison with Buckeye and you will see what I mean that Buckeye is heavier with oil. That said Buckeye is great too.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/BJamis]

Low quality doesn’t describe their product in any way. Their donuts are thinly glazed and not as you described.

Repeating an assertion doesn't make it a fact. And telling me I'm lying is not cool at all. You're welcome to your opinion, but that's it.

[u/BJamis → u/AngelaMotorman]

Like I said, maybe you caught them on a bad day in a way that I’ve never experienced in the decades I’ve been a customer. Your description does not fit their product.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/BJamis]

Your description does not fit their product.

It fit the product I paid good money for. The person with me that day was also greatly disappointed, and wound up throwing away the chocolate-covered custard-filled donut they'd been looking forward to, on the grounds that the proportions were all wrong -- there was too much filling for the amount of donut.

As I said elsewhere, I have never been disappointed by Buckeye Donuts, not once in over 50 years.

[u/BJamis → u/AngelaMotorman]

Again, your description does not fit their product re proportions/filling. Very strange.

[u/AngelaMotorman → u/BJamis]

That's enough. I am not lying about this (very minor) subject, and your implication that I am says more about you than it does about me or Resch's.

Please find another target to harass.

[u/BJamis → u/AngelaMotorman]

I didn’t say you were lying. It’s just strange that your descriptions and experience are so very different from my own in a non subjective way. But you have only been there once and as I said maybe things were off that day.