hi,

I am going to attempt making Royal Icing for the first time to decorate cookies. And i know that the mixing bowl needs to be completely grease free.

Can somebody tell me how to do that to my KA bowl?

thanks IA

Kirti

A clean KA bowl will be fine. Plastic bowls sometimes need to be washed a couple of times to remove a greasy film on them.

hth

Usually a run through the dishwasher or dish soap and hot water will do the trick.

Dawn dish detg. and vinegar and very hot water, after you wash it let it soak in the vinegar for a while, I always do the vin. thing a couple of times.

when you are de-greasing...don't forget the paddle attachment too!

I always rinse mine with a vinagar wash too... just swish it around the bowl, dump it out, then rinse well with hot water!

at work we rub our bowl and paddle with a half lemon. It smells great and is a natural degreaser.

Clean bowl and wipe down with a vinegar soaked paper towel.

Before I had a dishwasher, I used to wash tools, then boil, then vinegar...hard to do all that with a bowl though. : )

Wow! I've never done any of that--I've just put it through the dishwasher as usual. Never had any problems.

I just wash in the dishwasher and have never had any problems. I have the coated paddle too (looks white). I make it with my paddle.

What KA speed to you all use? I think I made it last time with the slowest speed (the combine speed) and it seemed to work OK. I thought I should use 2 (mine goes in 2 increments), but that seemed too fast.

Dishwasher or in the sink with lots of soap! Never had a problem!

I have never washed my KA bowl down with anything other than hot water and lots of dish soap.

I always BOIL the tips and couplers though to make sure they are grease free though - you can't be sure you got all the grease film out of those tiny areas.

I use the dishwasher or I boil water on the stove and swish the water around in the bowl.

The instructions for degreasing I received while in the Wilton classes was to use hot water and vinegar.

I wash the bowl well, fill it with hot water and about 1/2 c. of white vinegar. I then dip all of the items I will use to make the royal--spatula, tips, bags (if using a non disposable one), couplers, paddle, etc.--into the bowl of water & vinegar. I dry the items with a clean paper towel and then keep them away from all of my other stuff. May be overkill to some, but I've never had a bad batch of royal doing it this way.

Rae

Ditto. Vinegar and hot water has always worked for me.