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I have never had a problem with the wilton cake leveler......just make sure your cake is in a flat surface and just kinda saw away....i use the little leveler, i need to get the larger one, only for the big cakes though....otherwise i have never had a problem with the leveler...i can't imagine leveling the cake with a knife(i tried once, looked like i was going up hill...lol), but i guess if a knife works better for you stick with using that...whatever works best for you.
I'm pretty passionate about Wilton. I think they should be banned. Most of their stuff is of poor quality and leads to problems of one kind or another. When it comes to Wilton "just say no."
In fairness I have found two Wilton products I do use--the sparkling sugar and a ribbon cutter.
I use both levelers but I use the large one much more than the small one.
The agbay cake leveler is great but the cost is outragous. I cant see spending 150.00 on a cake leveler. The maker of the agbay cutter is a member of MA ices and she has had it at our meeting. Dont get me wrong its nice but too much money for me.
I use both levelers but I use the large one much more than the small one.
The agbay cake leveler is great but the cost is outragous. I cant see spending 150.00 on a cake leveler. The maker of the agbay cutter is a member of MA ices and she has had it at our meeting. Dont get me wrong its nice but too much money for me.
well maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. When I try to use it the blade won't stay strait. I seems to be on an angle. It also does not seem tight enough. It has never worked for me.
I have been using the small Wilton leveler for about 10 years, and really don't have any major problems. I did take the time to measure from the tips to the markings on the sides to make sure that the marks were the same distance from the ends on both sides. They weren't, so I marked which side is a bit longer, and just set the wire accordingly. Even if I hadn't, it would have only been a difference of less than 1/4" from one side to the other.
Things that I have found useful are not overbaking the cake, so that the sides aren't too crusty, starting with a little nick in the side with a knife if the outside of the cake is too resistant, and sawing back and forth with a gentle motion. When I get near the other side of the cake from where I started, I kind of stabilize the side as I move the wire through that last bit, to prevent tearing.
I can't even imagine spending $250 for a leveler that I would use maybe one or two times a month. (If you bake dozens of cakes a month, or have lots of disposable income, it would be different.)
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well maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. When I try to use it the blade won't stay strait. I seems to be on an angle. It also does not seem tight enough. It has never worked for me.[/quote]
Are you talking about the large one? You need to use it like a saw slide it from left to right holding the sides of it.
I have the one blade AGBAY, once you have used an Agbay, you will wonder what took you so long?? It's around $150, but every once in a while you can find one on Ebay. I'm like you all, I used to use the Wilton levelers, the small one is better than the larger one, just could not keep that darn blade from bending everywhere. With an AGBAY, absolutely no worries at all. I now love to torte all my layer cakes!
1 or 2 times a month? I use it that many times a day. Or more. All my cakes are torted to four layers per tier.
I wasn't saying that YOU use it only 1 or 2 times a month. I said that I wouldn't use it more than 1 or 2 times a month. (I followed that with saying that it would be different if I baked a lot of cakes.)
Everyone's needs are different, which is why it is good that there is a wide variety of products available, from pretty inexpensive items for the novice or occasional home baker to top-of-the-line expensive items for the pro. I think that if all that was available was the expensive items, an awful lot of people would never get started.
Just my $.02 worth.
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