How To Use A Piping Tip Without A Coupler

2-Piece Standard Plastic Coupler.

How to use a piping tip without a coupler. The second part the ring is used to secure your tip in place. Seven new tips meant seven piping bags. And then remove.

A decorating bag is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end for many purposes including cake decoration. There are off course larger couplers for the larger piping tips. A coupler is a two-part device base and a ring that lets you interchange several decorating tips without changing the pastry bag.

When I use my large piping tips they dont fit on the coupler so I drop them straight into the piping bag. First slide the large part of the coupler into the piping bag. Place the metal icing tip over the bag to join with the coupler and twist.

As expected the bag stretched a bit as I worked and I found frosting starting to slide up and out around the tip. You would probably start and finish piping the flowers in one color first. I first show you how to put a nozzle in a piping bag and fit a nozzle in the piping bag.

In this video tutorial viewers will learn about decorating bag basics. Russian piping tips are not as angled as regular piping tips so this makes them more. You can use this coupler to create beautiful 3 color designs like in the photo below.

Many recipes and baking tutorials call for a device called a coupler inside the pastry bag. This is what I get for posting on my phone. It would be awful if we had to make different bags of the same color of icing just to use different tips.