2 ?'s : Plastic Tips & Old Tip Covers

[lov2bake]

Just trying to get organized for the switch from chocolate/confectionary coating to RI/Royal Glaze/CS Glaze...

1. are plastic tips worthless for real icings? [They are good for melted coatings because they don't cool off as fast as metal.] I've got plenty of both! I'm thinking of keeping the plastics with the coating stuff and the metal tips for real icings. Good/Bad Idea?

2. Are the old style Wilton plastic tip covers still OK or are the new silicon ones vastly better?

Just finished Wilton Course Level 1 to get over my fear of pastry bags (always been a bottle baby!) I am so glad so get away of the greasy icing mess! I never went through so much shortening so fast in my enitre life!! After working with cookies for so long, the cake icing tips felt like I was working with a horse's leg! Please, no offense intended to Cake Decorators!!! I just love working with cookies I happily eat & admire both.

Between using coatings, taking the cake course and ramping up for real cookie icings I am drowning in equipment pieces, parts & supplies, bottles of all sizes, 2 types of couplers (bags/bottles), caps & covers (not to mention hundreds of cookie cutters & still growing). I am surrounded by non-bakers who think/know I'm OCD about cookies. Until I found this forum, it's been very lonely

I love being among my kind: the cookies obsessed that understand what cookie porn is!

Thanks so much for being here and being so much help!!!
Barbara

[Sugar Boy]

Just trying to get organized for the switch from chocolate/confectionary coating to RI/Royal Glaze/CS Glaze...

1. are plastic tips worthless for real icings? [They are good for melted coatings because they don't cool off as fast as metal.] I've got plenty of both! I'm thinking of keeping the plastics with the coating stuff and the metal tips for real icings. Good/Bad Idea?

Thanks for the tip on using plastic tips for candy melts. I never thought about the metal tips were cooling the candy too quickly. I will sometimes use the plastic tips for flooding - especially if I have my other tips already coupled on other bags.

2. Are the old style Wilton plastic tip covers still OK or are the new silicon ones vastly better?

I liked using the old style Wilton covers. (Never tried the new ones.) But the more colors I wanted to use, the more work it was too cap on/off each icing bag. OK - so I guess I could limit my use of colors, but why? So for quite awhile I have had my icing bags on a tray with a damp towel. Then I found this little gem (to make poppers I found out from others on this forum) to hold the icing bags:

Between using coatings, taking the cake course and ramping up for real cookie icings I am drowning in equipment pieces, parts & supplies, bottles of all sizes, 2 types of couplers (bags/bottles), caps & covers (not to mention hundreds of cookie cutters & still growing). I am surrounded by non-bakers who think/know I'm OCD about cookies. Until I found this forum, it's been very lonely

I love being among my kind: the cookies obsessed that understand what cookie porn is!

Drowning in equipment, etc? Put them in a box and see if you don't really need it in a year's time. After that, sign up for the Traveling Cookie Box and make your contributions.

Welcome to the club! Non-cookiers think we are OCD, but shove a cookie in their mouth to shut them up We are all sick here and not looking for the cure!

[lov2bake]

Thanks Sugar Boy!
The Traveling Cookie Box sounds like a great idea! I'll have to sign up for the next one. Have many of duplicate cutters from buying lots on ebay!