Ateco Icing and Piping Tips, 40717 Decorating Bag & Universal Coupler Set, White

I'm embarrassed to say I have likely never thrown away a frosting tip. I have some that are really old. Over the years I have loaned them out and lost a piece here and there. Was looking at buying a new kit and came across this. Every one of my frosting tips worked on one of the couplers. For less than $7, I am back in business. Good quality. This was a really good find for me.

I see that most of the negative reviews are confused by this product and frustrated by the lack of instructions. The instructions were literally on the outside of the box I received (see pictures) and all of the parts are labelled on the part itself. There are two coupler bases (large and small) For full interchangeability and use, you put the largest coupler base on the piping bag. L, ML, and M tips will all attach directly to this; you just change the size of the tightening nut (again they are labeled) to correspond to the tip size. The cap is a really nice feature; it only fits on the large coupler base. The small coupler base (which holds S tips) also attaches directly to the large coupler base. You secure it to the large coupler base with the M tightening nut. If you are only using S tips and do not care about full interchangeability (and are not using the cap), the small coupler base can be used independently of the large base. How well this works with non-Ateco tips I cannot say, but it looks like there should be *some* flexibility. YMMV. Yes, I did not tighten them on all the way in my video. That is why they are so wobbly. Tighten them properly and it won't be an issue.

Added this set of couplers to my amateur cake decorating supply kit to accommodate larger piping tips. They work fine and it’s nice to have additional small tips available when swapping in and out many colors. If I had endless funds I’d just get the regular not universal couplers for all sizes as the size adjusters are kind of an extra step and a pain to keep track of. But they’re economical, work perfectly well, and take up little extra storage space.

So I only gave it a 4 star and I tossed between 3 and 4 so really its like 3 1/2 stars and heres why There are no directions, there's no way to keep all the pieces together and unless you really know what your doing you would be clueless for a lot of reasons. That being said I do love the product and I did find it very useful. I found it to be a little pricey but I also plan to buy another.

Other pastry bags that I bought, thinking they were large, said they were large but they were not. I make cream puffs and other pastries and I don't want to keep filling it. This bag is quite sufficiently big and so are the attachments. Easy to clean and I'm sure you'll like it.

These are excellent for being able to switch out decorating tips.

I did not like there aren't instructions. I do love the convenience.

I love Ateco because I can always count on high quality well made products from them. The bag has a nice wide opening making it much simpler to fill and clean and the couplers fit snug so the pastry tips don’t wiggle all around.