How To Use Pastry Tip Without Coupler

Open your piping bag and put it one hand and then using your other hand scoop the icing into the piping bag and then gently squeeze the icing down the piping bag until it just begins to come through the nozzle and then you can start piping.

How to use pastry tip without coupler. Click To Mark Complete. Then mark with your finger where the beginning of the screw thread lines up on the bag. Some bags need to be cut at the bottom.

With this setup the bag will hold itself open meaning you can use both hands to hold and scrape a bowlful of DIY Devil Dog batter or whatever the case may be. 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. Towel-dry tips and allow them to air-dry.

If you dont plan on changing tips you can put the tip directly in the bag but I ALWAYS use a coupler. In order to gauge how much of the plastic bag tip to snip off insert the bottom half of the coupler into the empty pastry bag and snip off the top. They are pre-cut sheets.

Next drop the piping bag into a tall pilsner or drinking glass and fold the opening of the bag down around the glass. Just use a knife scissors to cut them out when youre done. There are no tips or couplers used with parchment bags.

Once cut push the coupler back to the tip of the piping bag. Place the narrow end of the coupler down inside the decorating bag. Slip the coupler or tip into the pastry bag let it peek out the small opening.

If youre using a small tip go ahead and secure it to the coupler now. This is how it would look like. A coupler allows you to change tips without emptying the bag fishing out the one you are finished using.