Pastry bags. What are they needed for?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Meringues, cream-decorated cakes and cupcakes are almost impossible to make without using piping bags. Desserts should deliver not only taste, but also aesthetic pleasure, so any housewife who loves to bake is simply obliged to have such a device in the kitchen.

The choice is huge: you can buy a pastry bag with nozzles or a regular one, there are disposable and reusable options, and you can also make it yourself, because it's very simple. However, desserts decorated with a homemade bag will certainly not look as presentable as those decorated with a special store-bought one, and even with a set of nozzles, thanks to which you can vary the decorations according to your own taste and create very original patterns.

Nowadays you can find a lot of instructions with photos showing in detail how to make a piping bag yourself, because it really is not that difficult. All you need to do is, for example, roll up a thick paper bag or take a bag, fill it with cream for decoration, and then cut off a corner,through which the contents are squeezed out for dessert.

You can try not just to cut a corner, but to do it figuratively - to cut out a crown, for example. True, with regard to packages, it is unlikely that something will come of it, but with paper, if it is really dense and keeps its shape, it can work out. Of course, desserts decorated with homemade piping bags will be inferior to cupcakes and pies decorated with professional tools. However, this is a great solution in the case when the hostess did not have the necessary device in the arsenal due to the fact that she almost never bakes.

Special pastry bags or syringes, as a rule, have a set of curly nozzles that allow you to vary the thickness and shape of the squeezed contents.

There are both reusable and disposable options that practically do not differ in functionality. The reusable ones are made of cotton fabric coated with synthetic fibers, while the disposable ones are made of polyethylene and paper.

They have one significant advantage - they do not need to be washed, but there is also a disadvantage - their "disposability" contributes to environmental pollution, which is quite important for some people.

Of course, pastry bags are mostly in demand by professionals who use these tools in their work, but any hostess can buy oneadaptation to her kitchen, if she is fond of making cakes and decorating pastries. Perhaps the syringe or bag will not be used very often, but still, this extremely useful tool should not be neglected, especially since its price is relatively small. But it’s so nice in a fit of inspiration to bake something and decorate it with an interesting and original pattern! Such an impromptu, no doubt, will please not only the hostess herself, but also her loved ones.