Can You Use Other Tips on the Decorator Bottle Set?

[jesikaransom]

Good Afternoon Cheffers!!

Question for you all... I was asked this at a show this weekend and knew you would all be able to help!!

Can you use other tips on the Decorator Botttle set? Like from Wilton?

I don't personally own them other wise i would try.

TIA!!!

 

[wadesgirl]

Yes you can!

 

[lcucinella]

All standard sixed tips would fit. The tips that are really big will not.

 

[Paula R. Lewis]

Speaking of these, can anyone share an "easy" way to fill the bottles? I think they are very well made, but I hate trying to put icing in them....so messy!!

Thanks!!

 

[BethCooks4U]

Speaking of these, can anyone share an "easy" way to fill the bottles? I think they are very well made, but I hate trying to put icing in them....so messy!!

Thanks!!

I use the small bamboo spoon. It's the easiest way I've found to fill it.

If it's liquid enough (if you warmed the frosting) you could use the flexible funnel also.

 

[esavvymom]

The Small spreader works too for filling.

 

[chefa]

The V-Shaped Cutter works great; esp. if it's a thinner frosting.

 

[Grandmarita]

I use our Micro-scraper #1702, to fill the decorator bottles..

 

[Paula R. Lewis]

Hmmm....sounds like I need to make some frosting, and "experiment" a bit! Lots of choices here....thanks, everyone!!

Anyone else, please feel free to add!! <grin>

 

[Chef Gilles]

I put the icing in a plastic bag and squirt it out into the bottles.

 

[mountainmama74]

I put the icing in a plastic bag and squirt it out into the bottles.

While this seems like an extra added step, I agree that it would be the easiest! That's my only beef about the decorator bottles. They're really hard to fill without making a mess. BUT...my kids love them!!

 

[esavvymom]

I've not checked the Use & Care, but they really should have suggestions on how to fill them. I had one customer tell me she threw her set in the trash because she couldn't figure out how to fill them up without a huge mess.

 

[melissasutkus]

I use a baby spoon that has a silicone or rubber coating... it works really well!

 

[babywings76]

Aside from filling them, I had problems with my set when I tried using them. As I squeezed them, I guess it also changed the shape of the top of it where the cap screws on. So the cap would pop off all the time. Anyone have a tip to using these? Is my set faulty or is it user error?

 

[raebates]

Your set sounds faulty, Amanda. I've never had that problem.

 

[mspibb]

Growing up I was a cookie maker and had a couple of sets of icing "syringes" that I used for decorating. Like the Easy Accent Decorator only small. I just had to toss my icing syringe because the plunger broke. (I was putting the lemon curd in the Lemon cookies from Simply Sweet) I need to replace these and would rather do so with a PC product but I don't think I want the Decorator bottles. It just looks like getting the icing in them would be a pain. Syringes are easy because tips go on one end but icing loads from the other. Anyone care to dissuade me from being unfaithful - as someone else put it!?!??!

 

[raebates]

I find it really easy to put in frosting simply by using the small spreader. I scoop up a glob and the hold the spreader with the tip up and scrape the frosting into the bottle. (I don't actually stick the spreader into the bottle, though I might use it to push excess frosting down in.)