Can Someone Critique The Wilton's Color Spray?
Decorating By justfrosting Updated 28 Apr 2007 , 7:01pm by Peachshortcake
I bought red and blue today...my two worst colors...
I won't say that the color is bad, but the sprayer is. I have bought this product twice, and both times, the spray collected into the nozzle and dripped onto my cake. I bought an airbrush and never went near it again.
Theresa 
It was a mess and the color was no where near black.
I used the blue and it did drip. I wasn't using it on a cake, used it to spray through a stencil onto a cookie and then piped RI over top.
Oh yah, the odor. I kept checking the can to make sure it was food-safe! It was really, really strong.
Well that stinks! I bought them to do a complete background color in red onto fondant...what a waste.
Well that stinks!
Literally! Ha!
I think it's the propellant that stinks. Can you ice something up to test it before you put it on your cake?
I'm very sensitive to smells. I can smell a gas station miles away. I was cleaning at my sister's apartment while she was away and smelled gas. The gas guy came out and couldn't find a leak with his fancy equipment. I pushed and pushed that there was a gas smell in the apartment, and after about an hour he finally found the leak. Some idiot had used PVC pipe through the wall connecting parts of the gas line and it cracked. Big no-no to use PVC for a gas line. She came home to her gas shut off, but she didn't really cook anyway! The landlord, not so happy that he had to fix the pipe.
I like it, for not having an airbrush myself. However, one of my husband's jobs includes using spray paint cans, so he helped.
A couple tips...make sure you shake very well everytime you use it (more than you think you need to.) Make sure you spray far enough away 6-12 inches, this is particularly important if you are trying for a light application. This is where drips come from, as well as applying too much at once. It is better to do a light coat and let it dry than to take it to full intensity all at once. I practiced on a piece of cardboard to get the effect I wanted and figured out the pressure needed.
The biggest trick I learned....START SPRAYING OFF THE CAKE AND DON'T RELEASE UNTIL YOU'RE OFF THE CAKE. Don't point the nozzle directly at the cake and spray, start an inch or so to the side, sweep across the cake evenly until you're spraying off the other side and then return.
Obviously, you'll need to mask what you don't want sprayed and protect the surrounding space.
Used the red. Looked good for the most part but it did get a little to dark after it dried. Will never use it again in my house. I used foam core board to prevent color ending up all over my counter and for months I still would find a light dusting of red. I must have wiped down the same areas only to find more red for what seemed like forever. It must have kept resettling after the air in the house kicked on!
I have 3 colors and have used all of them. For what they are, they work fine. You cant expect it to work like an airgun. They are cans of spray food color and thats pretty much how they work...I like mine...wish I had an airgun...but I dont, so the cans are fine for now.
The only thing I like them for is my paint ball cakes. I don't have to deal with getting my airbrush out and having to clean it. I did use the blue a little on a cake I did today that I will post later today and it I wasn't to happy with it. Its good to practice with. 
I used it for my lobster cake. I liked it for what it was, it made the fondant the colour of a cooked lobster....
Two words of advice though. Open every window you POSSIBLY can before spraying. AND coat all surfaces with news paper, other wise its a pain to clean.
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