How would you make a frying basket?

Hey folks, I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this but I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm trying to start a bakery going from my home. The place where I live allows for "cottage law" which keeps the expenses seriously lower than normal until you reach a certain revenue per year. I thought I'd try making donuts. Everyone likes a good donut, right?

I'm going to have to make as many of the donuts as possible but a key to the cottage law is that you must use ordinary household cooking equipment to make all food. This means no giant donut factories like you see on youtube, so I'm forced to use only small fryers to finalize the recipes.

The problem is, there's way too much movement when you toss the dough into the fryer. Transferring the dough from one surface to the next ensures that there's always going to be some kind of stretching involved, and it's been very noticeable. I asked the fellows in /r/baking and they said the pros use proofing SCREENS to allow the dough to rise on. That way they can lower the entire screen into the giant fryers. Problem is, I'm forced to use only the tiny fryers and the huge screens won't fit.

TLDR: How would you make a series of small frying screens to carry maybe 4 donuts on while they proof and still be able to retrieve the screens when the donuts are done frying?

I'm a total newb with this stuff. Is it even practical?

Submitted April 29, 2016 at 11:58AM by earthceltic http://ift.tt/1NZ6Ex6