What Do You Use To Cut Your Dowels With?
Decorating By sandie Updated 19 Apr 2007 , 6:01pm by CakesbyMonica
This week end I had to stack a cake, and used a little hand saw to cut the dowels. I had an awful time, it took for ever to cut a dowel. So what do you use? About a year ago there was post about a cutter from sears, any one know what kind it was? Thank you.
I got a hand-held pruner from Home Depot. It cost about $13. I never use it for anything except dowel cutting. It's wonderful -- I ruined a nice pair of kitchen shears cutting my first set of dowels 
So much cake decorating equipment really needs to be bought at Home Depot... 
or go to your local hardware store and get a pair of small pvc pipe cutters...will cost you about $10
i use pruners too,if you buy a pair make sure it is the kind where one blade comes to rest on the flat surface of the other side, not where the two blades cross each other. that kind makes a slanted cut, where the other kind is a straight cut.
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I dont use dowels, I use straws. The big milkshake ones at restaurants or the bubble tea asian ones are best. Very sturdy and easier to cut. Never had a problem with them. If I need a long center stake I either get them to do it at Home Depot or have my husband do it with his saw (electric one so I guess its a bit impractical.)
CakesbyMonica:
I thought of using bubble tea straws. But a long time ago, there was a thread where some one had posted, that they used straws and their cake fell. So I was a little nervous about it. Maybe they did not use bubble tea straws. Thanks every one.
It may sound a bit impractical, but I use an electric miter saw. It makes cutting wooden or plactic dowels soooo easy!(and it was already in the garage!)
One of the more experienced cake decorators on here, sorry I forgot the name, used bubble straws, also, in her tutorial. I believe its the one about sculpting cakes (a baby in a plant pot, perhaps?) I just find them very accomodating and wanted to give you another option and some back up of someone who uses it in the professional world. I make cakes, and sell them, but nowhere as near as much as she would.
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