So I was decorating a cake using red icing (I used the Super Red by Americolor). It came out to a nice strong red. Then I went to wash my stuff like I normally would and as I'm washing the red bag. It is dyed pink! 
I scrubbed and soaked and scrubbed and soaked and I cannot get it to go back to its original color. How do you all deal with this problem?
Watch out for those bags that are dyed pink from the red too. I am one of the "hot hands" folks and if I have white icing in one of those "stained" bags, after holding it a while, there is a slight pink tint to the icing.....just wanted to warn you all!
If anyone knows how to get it off, we would be grateful!!
You can't make me confess I've put them in the dishwasher (taking them out before the drying cycle, before it gets all crinkled). You can't make me confess I've dropped them in boiling water either. Mine are clean, though. I'm just not telling you how, wink wink.
Be careful. I didn't believe it and used it a few times with white BC. Once I a pink tinted bag when I was doing a basketweave I have hot, hot hands and eventually noticed a hint of pink in my icing. Thankfully, I noticed it immediately and changed bags.
I just found this in another thread. I imagine it would keep the bags from getting stained, as well as make it easier to clean up:
<quote>TheVienneaus wrote:
paxpuella wrote:
I used the icing plug for the first time earlier today too. ~~~ LOVE IT ~~.
What's an icing plug?
Someone called it an "icing plug" awhile back. It is the tip that TheVienneaus shared earlier about placing your icing into plastic wrap and then inserting it into your featherweight bag.
This was also posted in another thread from freddyfl:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-33574-plug.html#top
1) take a sheet of plastic wrap, a decent rectangle size.
2) Take your frosting and blob it on the plastic wrap
3)roll the frosting up in the plastic like you would a hotdog. Sort of making the frosting the shape of a sausage or hot dog as you go.
4)once rolled, grab the edges of the plastic and twist them tight (like with a peppermint or salt water taffy)
5) cut one twisted end off when ready to ice your cake
6) place cut end tip side down into the icing bag
7) squeeze until gone =-), pull out empty plastic wrap, and repeat process</quote>
I use the icing plug method all the time at work. It does keep the bag from staining and makes clean up a lot easier, but sometimes the icing will manage somehow to get out at the end of the bag. The upside of this though is it's where the coupler goes so the white icing will not change colors. I have hot hands also. Hope this helps.
but my others are pink,and as long as I know they are clean I don't really let it bother me.Quote by @%username% on %date%
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