Kitchen Tools

Pastry bags are essential tools for decorating pastries, cakes, or even for plating your mashed potatoes. You can use them by just cutting off the top after filling and get a round effect similar to a round pastry tip. Or, you can use the pastry bags with your selected pastry tip or even a coupler (the coupler allows you to switch pastry tips after the filling is placed into the pastry bag).

Read more about pastry tips here.
Read more about couplers here.

Pastry bags can be reusable (usually from polyurethane) or disposable (usually from plastic).

Reusable bags usually come in a pack of 1 and disposable usually come on a roll of 100 PCS.

I personally prefer reusable for these reasons:

1. No need to clean and dry – speeds up the process in the kitchen.
2. No danger of molding if dried improperly.
3. You always cut your opening based on current preferences, tip size, or coupler size (in comparison with reusable bags, which are not possible to reverse after cut).
4. Cost-effective solution = one bag from my online store costs just around 17 cents.

You can buy them in multiple sizes, but for most households, I would always recommend 18” because it is big enough for larger quantities but also not too big if you have just a small amount of filling.

See section “How to Work with a Pastry Bag” here.