How To Assemble A Plastic Piping Bag

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How to assemble a plastic piping bag. Take off the coupler and piping tip and squeeze as much of the unused pastry bag contents back into its mixing bowl or storage container. Once you get started hold the top of the bag with your dominant hand and guide the bag with your non-dominant hand. You dont want it to protrude out of the hole since the idea is to pinch the bag between the base and the collar.

Spoon in the icing. Ideally youll stretch the plastic a bit so its tight over the couplers threads. Simply fold the lowerbottom corner of the bag up to the opposite corner of the top of the bag and secure the line with duct tape.

If using a coupler place the coupler in the icing bag as you normally do. Tightenthe tip into the couplerU. Pull the twisted end of the plastic wrap through the open end of the bag and snip it off so the icing can pass and then attach a tip to your coupler.

Plop a spatula-full or two of icing onto the plastic wrap. Push it in tightly. Ad Looking for a plastic bag.

Fold the plastic tightly over your icing and roll it up like a sausage twisting the ends of the plastic wrap to squeeze your icing into a tight cylinder. Use a pair of scissors to mark a spot on the bag about inch before the first thread on the narrow end of the coupler. Place a coupler in your piping bag then drop in the plastic-wrapped icing.

With a spoon or a spatula fill the bag with icing. Depending on purpose and. Be careful you might need a different bag for each coupler since the openings may vary in size.