I just finished frosting 125 cupcakes using tip 1M with a 12" disposable bag 
The lesson.....GET A BIGGER BAG!! Do you know how many times I had to fill that sucker up!!! Sheesh, you would think I would know how to think things through by now 
Anyhoo I just thought I would share 
Jen
I use the 16" bags for that...but if you fill them too full they're hard to squeeze. So you end up filling it up a lot anyhow 
True, the bigger the bag, the harder they are to control. Set the cupcakes down and use two hands to get a better grip and control of the bigger bags. Filling bags Ugh
I just finished frosting 125 cupcakes using tip 1M with a 12" disposable bag
The lesson.....GET A BIGGER BAG!! Do you know how many times I had to fill that sucker up!!! Sheesh, you would think I would know how to think things through by now Anyhoo I just thought I would share Jen
LOL I just did the same thing last weekend for my daughter's first birthday party (only not 125 cupcakes, thank goodness, only 30 or so), and I was thinking the whole time that I needed one of those big honkin' bags I saw on Cake Boss the other day! I cannot even imagine how many times you had to fill that sucker up for 125 cupcakes. We should all get two 1M tips and two bags, and make hubby or a friend refill one each time it's empty while we're using the other one they just filled!!
I have seen where someone using a large bag twisted it in the middle so that they were only using pressure on the lower part of the bag by the tip, and the upper part was a "reserve". Seemed to work really well...
I did the exact same thing recently only with 300 cupcakes. I didn't think I would ever see the end of them!!! I thought I had ordered 4 extra tips so I could have 5 bags going at a time. WELL the craft store never ordered my tips... so I was left with one tip..... I refilled that thing over and over again. Finally towards the end of my project I got a pair of latex gloves and put on.... no more dried frosting, sticky mess.....if only I had thought of this idea earlier? hehehe Oh well the cupcakes were a huge success!
I don't blop icing into the bag every time it's empty.
Instead, I make a bunch of icing 'bullets' to fit my 18" or 21" bag before I start decorating. When the bag is empty, I just chuck the plastic, drop a new bullet it and continue decorating.
I always clip the end of my bag closed with a Twixit so I can push the excess icing above my hand while I squeeze a more managable amount below.
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