Want to Step Up Your Baking Game? Buy Piping Tools
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- Expertly decorate a cake with script, rosettes, and more with piping tools.
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Narrowing it down to the essentials, priceless... thanks ATK... you are my guide to the best for my kitchen.
Once I learned that you're not supposed to squeeze the bag with your fingers, you're supposed to twist the base of the bag, that's when the disposable piping bag became a bit of a game changer for me.
They're also handy for squeezing pomegranate juice and effectively filtering out the seeds.
The addition of a flower nail would be essential if you will be making icing roses
I can’t wait to be piping like a pro
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The disposable bags are good, but so are the ones pastry chefs use. (I don't know what that material is, but it isn't cloth.) I don't think they're a pain to clean, unless maybe you're doing a lot of colors.
Why doesn't ATK have branded retail items like the perfect beginners piping kit? They could dominate the baking aisle at Michael's.
It's been a while since I've used any decorating tools, but aren't the petal and leaf tips mislabeled?
I don't care for the plastic bags. I cherish my featherweight bags. I can't decorate anymore but but I have many memories
I have been a baker for 25 years and own various decorating tools and equipment. In my experience, Wilton is of poor quality. Therefore, if you bake often or want to decorate cookies, I suggest creating your own set.
For fine lines, PME brand round tips in size 1 or 1.5 are the best. These seamless tips will create clean, sharp lines for lettering on cakes and cookies, and outlining images with royal icing on cookies. PME is a bit hard to find in the US since they are a British import and have a cult following among artisan bakers. They typically cost around $5 each. Unlike Wilton tips, PME tips produce lines that do not blur.
For medium to large rounds, stars, French stars, closed stars, and Bismarck tips, I recommend Ateco brand. Ateco is the standard tip in most bakeries. They are better shaped and far more sturdy than Wilton tips. Additionally, they offer a wide range of sizes in the most commonly used shapes like rounds, stars, French stars. Ateco individual tips usually cost around $1.50.
Wilton disposable pastry bags are too small, too slippery, and too stiff to be of any use. Instead, I suggest using 18” and 21” bags from a restaurant supply store that have a non-slip grip on the exterior. These typically come in packs of 100, so they may not be ideal unless you bake frequently. Some restaurant supply stores sell bags in smaller quantities. You can also purchase professional pastry bags online at places like Bakedeco.com and pastrydepot.com.
As an aside, I recommend purchasing a piping tip brush. Trust me, if you stick your finger into a piping tip to wash it, especially any type of star tip, you will instantly regret it. The sharp points will get impaled into your skin, and you will not be able to pull your finger out of it.
*Bismarck tip is a long tube tip used to inject filling into pastry, like eclairs and jelly donuts.
I needed this a couple of weeks ago…but yeah, I should probably get it
I made a really bitchin' devil's food cake last week and wish I had a piping set - ordered one and a cake turntable off amazon :P
Tip - for practice you can pipe mashed potatoes (use a ricer or instant mashed potatoes to make sure it's smooth)
Gotta love it.
ATK guilting me to up my game .... again.
Use a bag for deviled eggs, filling small baking cups with brownie mix, adding whipped cream to cappuccino..
Love that you recommend using a coupler but the thumbnail image doesn’t use one.😂🙄🤦♂️🤔 Seriously though definitely use a coupler to avoid blow outs.
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I’m surprised they didn’t mention silicone bags. They do have their faults but I still prefer silicone to plastic.
I really need help! I have two electric ovens, and no way to hook them up.
But I already have a piping tool....a really hood one, some would say.
I need you guys to teach how to use it.
Wrong labels on petal & leaf tips
just use the plastic bag like my sister in law when she makes deviled eggs.
This is for people who want to learn how to bake better. If you're already a pro at piping with just a plastic bag, congrats....but a normal, supermarket storage bag, even "heavy duty" freezer bags, have very weak seams, so if your piping requires precise/regular pressure, you risk the bag bursting (which has happened to me). They're also shaped differently, so they can be really unyielding. Its like using a thick marker for a job that would be better left to a fine tip pen.
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(275) Not my thing.
Why waste your money, when you can just use a zip lock bag.
I find most of the plastic bags these days have that pleated bottom. Its great for reinforcing the seam and helping it stand up, but it makes them so much worse at being piping bags lol
A disposable zip top freezer bag like the model ATK recommends should be fine as long as the seam doesn't fail (and I have had seams fail on name brand freezer bags, and I think that's because they aren't pressure rated). I've done it hundreds of times since Alton Brown demo'd it on Good Eats.
However, techniques employed by the pros, like twisting the bag to squeeze out material, will be less efficient because of the different shape and purpose of the bag, and zip top bags will take more time to fill with awkward materials like sticky pate a choux. There's a reason why professional kitchens don't adapt zip top bags even though those are probably cheaper-- the piping bags are probably faster to use, faster means more product is made, which means more money.
So it will usually come down to how often you might use that piping bag, and how soon you need that baked good.
Why "waste" your money on anything quality? That's pretty much the logic there. Plastic zip lock bags will NOT do nearly everything a good set of piping bags and tips (which are NOT expensive) will....and certainly not with the same polish. Some people really like to make precise designs, and your suggestion wouldn't really work for them. That's clearly who this video is for....someone who wants to "step up" their baking game....right there in the title.
You realize this is a program for people who want the best, not just "good enough", right?