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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 18:09:25 GMT
For those of you who have a large collection of decorating stuff, How do you store your tips and everything else.
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Post by nlwilkins on May 16, 2020 18:27:15 GMT
in a drawer
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Post by dewryce on May 16, 2020 18:37:17 GMT
We are now down to this Wilson tool caddy. It works well for the modest amount of tools we have left. We used to keep that one and a version of this one. But then we’re diagnosed with diabetes and decided we had no business spending enough time decorating cakes to need that many tools  The only things that don’t store well in either of those were cardboard rounds, which I kept in a cake carrier with our round pans, our lazy susans, and the icing bag stand. Oh wait, I also had an Iris plastic box that held some flower formers, rollers, and misc. tools. And all of it was kept in a set of lower cabinets. |
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Post by SweetieBsMom on May 16, 2020 18:38:53 GMT
Tips, tip less bags, gel colors, all in a drawer. Cookie cutters, in bins and inventoried on the Sortly app, stencils in a binder, also inventoried in Sortly.
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Post by artgirl1 on May 16, 2020 18:40:18 GMT
There are trays that close that hold the tips: www.wilton.com/tip-organizer/405-8784.htmlMy tips are in these trays. I bought 4 matching square cookie tins on clearance (total $2) after Christmas one year. One tin for the tip tray with the oversize tips to the side in the tin, one tin for the bags, couplers, floral nail, colorings; one tin for cupcake liners, one tin for cookie cutters. They stack on top of each other in my pantry. I added 'chalk' labels to side for labeling. Next to that are 6x6 'milk cartons' stacked that hold my sugars, etc. |
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Post by anniebeth24 on May 16, 2020 19:13:49 GMT
My stuff is still in the Wilton Decorating Basics Student Kit box. I think I made two cakes after taking the course over ten years ago. Glad I didn't invest in all the additional tools I thought I needed at that time.
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Post by cakediva on May 16, 2020 19:38:40 GMT
I don’t count because I do this for a living lol - but I have a 300sq ft kitchen in my basement for all my tools and I’m bursting at the seams.
Of course I follow the “she who dies with the most tools wins” philosophy 😂😂
I do have all my tips in an old makeup caddy - the old folds back and the layers inside fold out - like a fishing toolbox.
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Post by brynn on May 16, 2020 20:14:06 GMT
Stored in a rubbermaid tote.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 20:15:06 GMT
I don’t count because I do this for a living lol - but I have a 300sq ft kitchen in my basement for all my tools and I’m bursting at the seams. Of course I follow the “she who dies with the most tools wins” philosophy 😂😂 I do have all my tips in an old makeup caddy - the old folds back and the layers inside fold out - like a fishing toolbox. I use a Mimi scrapbook tote bag. But I run out of room in it. I have the tip boxes but those are full and they don’t hold the big tips. Now I have all the Russian tips. They don’t fit any wear. As for the kitchen. We were supposed to build a bigger house and that house has a full catering kitchen in it. With special drawers for my cake stuff. And shelves for all those cake pans. |
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Post by chedanemi on May 16, 2020 21:15:29 GMT
I'm just retiring from my 20-year cake business, so I still have lots of stuff and room to store it. However, when I first started, I bought a fishing tackle box for the tips, couplers, bags, food coloring and other small stuff. You'd be surprised how much it held, and it slid conveniently in the bottom shelf of my pantry cabinet.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 22:05:40 GMT
I'm just retiring from my 20-year cake business, so I still have lots of stuff and room to store it. However, when I first started, I bought a fishing tackle box for the tips, couplers, bags, food coloring and other small stuff. You'd be surprised how much it held, and it slid conveniently in the bottom shelf of my pantry cabinet. Used to have that. Out grew it. |
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Post by Gennifer on May 16, 2020 22:40:02 GMT
I have a Wilton tool caddy that looks like a fishing tackle box... maybe the precursor of the one linked above? It’s nice to have the tray for the tips, but the rest of the stuff gets jumbled around. And my larger tips end up stacked (upside down) in the holes for the food coloring, but the jumbo ones are down below.
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Post by Basket1lady on May 16, 2020 22:44:07 GMT
There are trays that close that hold the tips: www.wilton.com/tip-organizer/405-8784.htmlMy tips are in these trays. I bought 4 matching square cookie tins on clearance (total $2) after Christmas one year. One tin for the tip tray with the oversize tips to the side in the tin, one tin for the bags, couplers, floral nail, colorings; one tin for cupcake liners, one tin for cookie cutters. They stack on top of each other in my pantry. I added 'chalk' labels to side for labeling. Next to that are 6x6 'milk cartons' stacked that hold my sugars, etc. I use this for my tips and a similar style for my gel colors. I keep them in a plastic bin with a few other tools. |
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Post by GiantsFan on May 16, 2020 22:52:12 GMT
My tips, bags, spatulas and colors are in a plastic tool box similar to this. |
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Post by sabrinae on May 17, 2020 0:55:49 GMT
I like Wiltons trays that close with lids for my tips. I also have the Wilton tool storage box. I have too many tips for just one tray or box. Everything else is sorted into plastic bins based or Rubbermaid totes based either on types of item or theme.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 17, 2020 1:34:31 GMT
Three drawers and two big sink base sized cabinets in my laundry room, plus some of the space on my counters in there for the dehydrator, airbrush, gel colors corralled in a Gladware container, my stencil snap holders and silk screen, my smaller KitchenAid and 3-ring binders with recipes and stuff. I sorted the cookie cutters loosely by type and put them in the corrugated lids of file storage boxes and stacked them in the cabinets like trays. I lettered them on the edge and will eventually take digital photos of each tray and print them out to have a reference so I know what is where.
Airbrush coloring is in a drawer with stencils in a binder and tips. Another drawer has a bunch (but not all) sprinkles and royal icing transfers. A third drawer has all the cookie stencils, Sweet Sugarbelle recipe cards that show how to flip the cutters into various designs, and pattern sheets for royal icing transfers, cookie sticks, tipless piping bags, and food color pens. Also in the cabinets I’m storing some tiered cupcake displays, a melting pot for candy melts and my backup cake pop baker thing.
Oh, and a file storage box packed full of new stuff I brought home from CookieCon in February that I haven’t put away yet on the step stool in the kitchen... whoops.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 17, 2020 12:30:08 GMT
I never had a huge amount so I could fit everything but the pans into a couple of plastic boxes in a cabinet. I pared down greatly with the recent move and have what I kept in one smaller plastic box now with only several classic round pans left in a few sizes. I gave the rest to a daughter-in-law who is beginning to explore her interest in making fancier desserts.
So I guess my question would be, do you really 'need' all you are trying to store. That's always my first question to myself these days.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 17, 2020 13:58:38 GMT
I never had a huge amount so I could fit everything but the pans into a couple of plastic boxes in a cabinet. I pared down greatly with the recent move and have what I kept in one smaller plastic box now with only several classic round pans left in a few sizes. I gave the rest to a daughter-in-law who is beginning to explore her interest in making fancier desserts. So I guess my question would be, do you really 'need' all you are trying to store. That's always my first question to myself these days. I started doing cake decorating when I was 14 years old. I was the youngest person in the class by far, most of the other students were probably in their 40’s or 50’s. The only thing I’ve gotten rid of is one star tip that fell on the floor. I stepped on it when I backed up to look for it and it got completely mangled, LOL. I mostly do cookies these days (and I’ve been trying to do them more) but I also make pies, cupcakes and the occasional cake or fancy dessert. Christmas cookies are my thing in the winter and pies are in the summer. I’m surprised by how much of my baking stuff I actually use. My kid wants to learn how to make macarons so that might be something else we try to master this summer. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 16:54:08 GMT
I never had a huge amount so I could fit everything but the pans into a couple of plastic boxes in a cabinet. I pared down greatly with the recent move and have what I kept in one smaller plastic box now with only several classic round pans left in a few sizes. I gave the rest to a daughter-in-law who is beginning to explore her interest in making fancier desserts. So I guess my question would be, do you really 'need' all you are trying to store. That's always my first question to myself these days. Yes I need it ALL! ALL OF IT. 😂 I have the room to store everything but not neatly. And I never know when somebody is going to want a cake. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 17, 2020 16:57:16 GMT
Yes I need it ALL! ALL OF IT. 😂 I figured that might be the answer! |
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Post by MerryMom on May 18, 2020 13:53:12 GMT
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Post by elaine on May 18, 2020 14:36:03 GMT
I never had a huge amount so I could fit everything but the pans into a couple of plastic boxes in a cabinet. I pared down greatly with the recent move and have what I kept in one smaller plastic box now with only several classic round pans left in a few sizes. I gave the rest to a daughter-in-law who is beginning to explore her interest in making fancier desserts. So I guess my question would be, do you really 'need' all you are trying to store. That's always my first question to myself these days. Yes I need it ALL! ALL OF IT. 😂 I have the room to store everything but not neatly. And I never know when somebody is going to want a cake. Is there anytime someone doesn’t want a cake? Because, well, cake! 🎂  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 18, 2020 14:51:30 GMT
Yes I need it ALL! ALL OF IT. 😂 I have the room to store everything but not neatly. And I never know when somebody is going to want a cake. Is there anytime someone doesn’t want a cake? Because, well, cake! 🎂  That would be my kid, unfortunately. When discussing what kind of cake or cupcakes she would like she said, “None, I want that Jello/pretzel dessert with raspberries in it instead.”  Sacrilege! Then my DH piped up, “Well just because SHE doesn’t want cake, does that mean the REST of us get no cake?” Dude, get real. YOU don’t like cake either!  He always chooses pumpkin pie for his birthday which sucks for me because I *don’t* like pumpkin pie so I end up making a dessert I won’t even eat one piece of. |
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Post by schizo319 on May 18, 2020 15:37:48 GMT
My stuff is still in the Wilton Decorating Basics Student Kit box. I think I made two cakes after taking the course over ten years ago. Glad I didn't invest in all the additional tools I thought I needed at that time. Same here. It stays on the top shelf of a cabinet and rarely gets used, but I like having everything in its place. I really need to go through it and toss the stuff I don't need and add some of my other rarely used tools (cookie cutters) to it. Maybe I'll put that on my quarantine to do list. |
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The only things that don’t store well in either of those were cardboard rounds, which I kept in a cake carrier with our round pans, our lazy susans, and the icing bag stand. Oh wait, I also had an Iris plastic box that held some flower formers, rollers, and misc. tools. And all of it was kept in a set of lower cabinets.
He always chooses pumpkin pie for his birthday which sucks for me because I *don’t* like pumpkin pie so I end up making a dessert I won’t even eat one piece of.