How To Use A Pastry Tip Coupler

Using a marker or pen make a mark just below the very bottom.

How to use a pastry tip coupler. Begin by unscrewing the ring at the base of the coupler. Draw a small horizontal line on the outside of the pastry bag just above the opening of the piping tip inside the bag. If your pastry bag does not have a hole at the tip already youll have to cut one.

To begin unscrew the ring from the base of the coupler and put the base in the pastry bag. You might be OK if you are working with a. Replace with the new tip and screw the ring back in place.

They are good to use without a coupler. So when I need to do a little piping say of jam into a doughnut I go the pre-fab route. Remove the piping tip from the bag.

Any kind of pastry tips will work but for straight lines a 10 plain round tip is good for bolder lines and a 2 plain round tip is best for finer lines. All you have to do it take the coupler ring off of the base of the coupler and change the tip. Some of the popular tips are Leaf tips 65 67 and 352.

The basic components tips and couplers can be had at many specialty shops. The fine folks at Chow. What is a coupler.

By standard I mean the normal-sized piping tips and not the larger ones like tip number 2D. Wilton gives a good description of other tips. Click to mark this step as completed.