? For Sugar Veil Users

Decorating By leah_s Updated 6 Sep 2007 , 8:13pm by Amylou

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leah_s Posted 6 Sep 2007 , 3:55pm
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I played with my new Sugar Veil last night with mixed results. The Sugar Veil product is waaay cool. Totally flexible when dry. Tastes decent too--mostly just sweet.

However the Sugar Veil machine is quite a disappointment. It appears to be an acquarium pump, syringles (label DB like you'd get from the drugstore) and other parts I recognized from here and there. It's a great idea that appears to have been cobbled together from readily available parts with a big price tag slapped on it. All in all its a little cheesy.

I guess I'm spoiled by the professional nature of my Agbay. Yes a totally different product, but from another "cottage industry."

OK, so now my question. How the H___ do you get the Sugar Veil product into the syringes? I tried spooning it in, using a piping bag, shaking it. How do you do it?

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snowshoe1 Posted 6 Sep 2007 , 5:24pm
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I know you said you tried a piping bag and didn't have much success - but that is what I do. I put a plastic piping bag in a tall coffee mug, wrap the edges down, pour in the sugarveil, snip a tiny hole at the end of the bag, insert into the syringe and squeeze. It fills up fine. I then will close off the rest of the sugarveil in the bag with a safety clip.

Sorry to hear you don't like the dispenser - I really love using mine for all kinds of things (e.g. chocolate, RI, etc...). I'm not very experienced at using a piping bag for fine lines so maybe that's why I like the dispenser.

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leah_s Posted 6 Sep 2007 , 6:45pm
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OK, I'll try the piping bag again. It's not that I don't like the dispenser--I do! It's just "cheaper" than I expected it to be for the price.

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snowshoe1 Posted 6 Sep 2007 , 7:50pm
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Yeah - I know what you mean by 'cheaper' - I have something almost exactly the same I use for silk painting and I paid 1/2 the price for it. Wish I would have known and I would have just bought another of these devices to use with the sugarveil.

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Amylou Posted 6 Sep 2007 , 8:13pm
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How about spooning some onto plastic wrap, then rolling it up with enough of an end on it to fit into the syringe, then squeezing it slowly down into the syringe?

I'm trying it out for the first time this weekend, so we'll see how it goes for me!

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