So I was whipping up a quick batch of cupcakes this am for my hubby's work. I am putting a 1G (big star) tip into my icing bag, go to push it down in and push my finger right through the darn thing! I couldn't pull my finger back out because the points were caught in my skin and it would only dig deeper if I pulled on it. Oh my Lord, THE PAIN!!! I managed to hang onto consciousness long enough to grab a pair of needle nose pliars and pull the points away to get my finger out. That must be what a bear caught in a trap feels like.

RULE OF THUMB (or index finger)

DO NOT USE YOU FINGERS TO PUSH YOUR TIPS INTO THE BAG!!!!!

lol

I am such a dork! rofl

Wow, sorry that happened to you. That must have been really painful!!! Thanks for the tip, because I sure do push my tips in sometimes!!!

too funny. glad you are okay. can't tell you how many of my dish cloths have no corners on them from getting them stuck in the star tips. i always seem to forget that i have a brush tip for that. lol

I'm glad you're OK now but that just really made me laugh trying to picture that. Way to funny, I can't stop laughing. Thanks for the warning, I could see myself doing that & I guess that's why I think it's so funny.

I always use the end of a wooden spoon, I think I just cant fit my fat hands in the bag.

Glad you're ok and thanks for the laugh!

That's horrible! Glad to hear your okay. You can never trust those darn tip traps! LOL

Lol, I had a student do that just last week! Now I know it's not only kids, and i'll make sure to talk about it to prevent future mishaps! Thanks for the tip!

Sorry that happened to you...But i'll keep this story in the back of my mind next time i'm using that tip or any tip for that matter thanks for sharing.

OOOOWWWW! but thanks for sharing! hope you're ok!

I am fine! lol Nothing hurt but my ego.

I told my mom and she was like "Mollie, only you can hurt yourself with an icing tip!" lol So true!

alvarezmom: tip traps! haha I love it!

Been there done that...lol...I also learned the HARD way...

Wow sorry for your pain but I had to chuckle cause this is the kind of stuff I thought ONLY happened to me, thanks for sharing. Get some neosporin on that.

Now you know how a hooked fish feels.

Glad you thought of the pliers. I'll have to remember that, in case I do the same thing (heck, you just never know, do you?).

Theresa

OWIEEEEEEE!!!!! Oh man, I can't even imagine how bad that must have hurt.

Here's another bit of advice: if you buy a soda from a vending machine and the bottle/can gets stuck inside, don't shove your arm all the way up to your elbow in there trying to get it out. Don't ask me how I know this.

--PianoDiva

I'll never forget the day that my sister got her hand hung up in the beaters of our stand mixer. This was years ago - we were both kids. The mixer had two beaters ... I don't know what she was doing, but all of a sudden they locked up TIGHT with her fingers twisted up between them. It's not funny, but I certainly laughed at the time!!

I could totally see myself doing this.

I did the exact same thing the other day...very painful!!!

Yep, I've been there, really painful and shocking as well,you wouldn't believe it'll hurt that bad.

I've done the same thing too. It's good to know there are other people out there like me. Maybe we should all join a support group for klutzy cake decorators.

"My name is Alicia and I cut myself on a bag of bavarian cream today"

P.S. don't ask me how I did it, I'm still not sure.

sorry but i laughed at your pain. I had this visual of you running around with an icing bag stuck to your finger.

glad you're okay and thanks for the lesson!

I actually did this same thing in a tip a while back. Pliers came to my rescue too. There was blood all over my index finger! It hurt for days!

OMG - that made my stomach flip a few times!

Glad to hear you finally got your finger out.

I had this problem from the OTHER direction, so to speak--I have no idea what I was doing, but I recall suddenly having the tip embedded in my fingertip!

It hurt, but I've had worse--sewing machine needle through the fingertip--so I just picked it out and got a bandaid...

Owch! sounds really painful!!! i wonder why i become accident prone when im doing a cake? ,

i was cutting some fondant strips the other day with my craft knife, Lovley white smooth fondant . . Yeah you guessed it, i sliced my finger open, blood all over the fondant (dont worry, it went in the bin!! )
and varika, ive done the excact same thing, with a denim needle on the sowing machine, ended up in accident and emergancy for four hours before they removed it!!!

Ouch Ouch Ouch .. tips, sewing needles, stand mixers Oh My! So glad I am not the only one to hurt myself on seemingly harmless things. Glad everyone is ok.

eeeewwww! I have the shivers from it all. The worse I had happen was slicing my finger open on the foil from the yogurt. You would never believe how deep it cut! I will never put my hand in a bag again. I can't imagine how that must hurt. It is like that thing from the movie, Da Vinci Code.