Firstly let me say that I am always loosing the piping tips that i need to use and have to search everywhere for them sometimes i find them but today sadly i just can't find the two I REALLY need, there're just gone When am i gonna learn to straight away put them back in their box when i am finished cleaning them???

Anyway vent over, i am going to get myself a couple of the same tips to help with my cookies and all incase i loose them again

Am going to get some more #2 tips......Question: What tip do you use most to do thin black outlines or details on your cookies? #1 or #0? trying to decide whether to buy more #1 or try a #0

Alrighty, that's all for me

elise -

I prefer the thinness of a 00 or 0, but I most often use a 1 because the 0's get clogged too easily...

I know the stocking trick ("smush" icing in a clean washed, unused stocking to get all the lumps out), but I usually forget to do that and just get frustrated!

Yeh i know about the stocking thing, like u said if i forget to do it my #1 get's clogged, it is very frustrating!

If u do the stocking thing does the 0 still pipe nicely then?

I like my #1 but for somethings i might need that extra thiness

I can't find that thread with the stocking instructions. Can someone please post the link? I'd like to try this because piping with the #1 is always so frustrating and the #2 is way too thick.

Luv2bake6: Here is a thread i have: http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopic-630347-0.html

If you can sometimes i find it less messy to put the RI into the stocking and then put it in your piping bag and then press the RI out pushing on the top of the icing bag that way your hands don't get messy.

HTH

Thank you so much!
I just don't get where the plastic wrap goes. And does this get put into a decorating bag with the tip set up?

Wrap the plastic wrap around the top of the lump of icing in the stocking so when your pushing it down it doesn't get on your hands, does that make sense? You can just use gloves if you want.

You can either put it straight into a piping bag or just into another bowl

yeh a metal and a plastic one lol

I usually clean them by hand then leave them on top of the counter to go clean other stuff or someone else cleans them first and puts them on the drying tray or wherever they put them away lol

I looked in all my boxes, on the counter, in the draws, on the drying tray, anywhere and i found the plastic one but the other one is just gone

I can't even count the number of times i am always loosing them lol

Some of my other *i cannot find XXXX*

In a pocket.
Caught up in a tea towell and ended up in the washing basket.
In the knife and fork drawer.
Next to the phone.


Sad but true -

Bluehue

i'll do one better......someone found one of my tips in the compost bin LOL

Needless to say i threw it out after that

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Perhaps *this one* went in the waste bin -

that's my conclusion too, the poor little thing lol

I once found one wedged into a small drainage hole in the dishwashing rack.
Another time, it was in the sugar!
Several times i've found them in a pocket of something i must've been wearing that day, and once i had to turn off the dryer when i heard something clanking around in there.......yup, my tip!

I have multiple tips... saves me all the time! I think I have 4 or 5 #1s, 3 #2s, 3 #3s, and 5 #4s. Oh, and a 00 and a 0.

Me too. Every time i go to Michael's, i pick up more!

yeh i am gonna go do that, need to get some more coupler's too. I can only get the wilton ones i think at this store, u know the ones with the split in them...............what's with the split anyway? Does it have a purpose? It annoys me lol

I was piping the other day using that coupler and i think it caused my icing to leak out the top of the srewey bit. I kept adjusting it, the bag, the tip to stop it leaking but it just didn't want to

LOL, that's happened many times to me too.

I really do want to figure out it's purpose lol

Edited to say: I went onto google and typed in the purpose of split in wilton coupler and i was reading down the page and saw that someone was asking the exact same question as me! SCORE i thought......then i read it was from cake central and that it was just what i had written on this post Damn it lol

Elise87 - LOL!! So funny that your google search returned you right back to yourself!! If you ever figure out "the split's purpose", let us know!!

UPDATE!!

Sooo, i rang a cake decorating store and asked them why there is a split in the wilton couplers lol

The guy said he thinks there is a split so you can attach something......have no idea what though

Huh? Attach what? LOL. Weird. All it does is leak icing.
FYI, it's happened to me too. I'll google something and then come right back to the same question i've asked on a forum!

well exactly, it isn't like a mixer where you have to change attachments or anything lol

Some of the tips, like 129 and 136 have a little metal wire to support the middle of the tip, the wire goes in the groove in the coupler. I couldn't figure it out either but someone else on CC answered it.

I have a couple of couplers that don't have the groove. I don't know if it is the brand or the age but there are some out there that are grooveless.

yeh i have one without the split too, i am going to go back to that particular cake decorating place soon to get a few more of those ones and some tips......the shop has 30% off nearly everything this week woo hoo!

I've also got some with and some without. Needless to say, i use the ones without more often.

I use a #1s for all my outlining. You can't tell the difference between the #1s and the #1 just by looking at it, but it's definitely my choice for fine lines.

As for the notch in the coupler....I have a number of flower tips that have that wire support mentioned by denetteb, and they need that space to fit on the coupler. I also have a really tiny tip that doesn't even fit on the coupler because it's too small. Never gave it a thought when I was buying the stupid thing, but try to use it, and good luck!