Firstly let me say that I am always loosing the piping tips that i need to use and have to search everywhere for them sometimes i find them but today sadly i just can't find the two I REALLY need, there're just gone 
When am i gonna learn to straight away put them back in their box when i am finished cleaning them???
Anyway vent over, i am going to get myself a couple of the same tips to help with my cookies and all incase i loose them again 
Am going to get some more #2 tips......Question: What tip do you use most to do thin black outlines or details on your cookies? #1 or #0? trying to decide whether to buy more #1 or try a #0
Alrighty, that's all for me 
elise -
I prefer the thinness of a 00 or 0, but I most often use a 1 because the 0's get clogged too easily...
I know the stocking trick ("smush" icing in a clean washed, unused stocking to get all the lumps out), but I usually forget to do that and just get frustrated!
Luv2bake6: Here is a thread i have: http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopic-630347-0.html
If you can sometimes i find it less messy to put the RI into the stocking and then put it in your piping bag and then press the RI out pushing on the top of the icing bag that way your hands don't get messy.
HTH
Wrap the plastic wrap around the top of the lump of icing in the stocking so when your pushing it down it doesn't get on your hands, does that make sense? You can just use gloves if you want.
You can either put it straight into a piping bag or just into another bowl
Firstly let me say that I am always loosing the piping tips that i need to use and have to search everywhere for them sometimes i find them but today sadly i just can't find the two I REALLY need, there're just gone
Elise, if it is a metal one, might it be in the dishwasher - or oven.
After i wash my metal things i always put them in the oven for 15 minutes to dry correctly - perhaps that it where it is hiding - hope so.When am i gonna learn to straight away put them back in their box when i am finished cleaning them???
I NOW keep a tray in my kitchen, so as when i am finished with everything - it all gets carted down to the *cake room* - learnt that after i lost a small cookie cutter, it had fallen down behind my Mixer -
Anyway vent over, i am going to get myself a couple of the same tips to help with my cookies and all incase i loose them again
Am going to get some more #2 tips......Question: What tip do you use most to do thin black outlines or details on your cookies? #1 or #0? trying to decide whether to buy more #1 or try a #0
Alrighty, that's all for me
yeh a metal and a plastic one lol
I usually clean them by hand then leave them on top of the counter to go clean other stuff or someone else cleans them first and puts them on the drying tray or wherever they put them away lol
I looked in all my boxes, on the counter, in the draws, on the drying tray, anywhere and i found the plastic one but the other one is just gone 
I can't even count the number of times i am always loosing them lol
I once found one wedged into a small drainage hole in the dishwashing rack.
Another time, it was in the sugar!
Several times i've found them in a pocket of something i must've been wearing that day, and once i had to turn off the dryer when i heard something clanking around in there.......yup, my tip!
I have multiple tips... saves me all the time! I think I have 4 or 5 #1s, 3 #2s, 3 #3s, and 5 #4s. Oh, and a 00 and a 0.
yeh i am gonna go do that, need to get some more coupler's too. I can only get the wilton ones i think at this store, u know the ones with the split in them...............what's with the split anyway? Does it have a purpose? It annoys me lol
I was piping the other day using that coupler and i think it caused my icing to leak out the top of the srewey bit. I kept adjusting it, the bag, the tip to stop it leaking but it just didn't want to
I really do want to figure out it's purpose lol
Edited to say: I went onto google and typed in the purpose of split in wilton coupler and i was reading down the page and saw that someone was asking the exact same question as me! SCORE i thought......then i read it was from cake central and that it was just what i had written on this post Damn it lol
Elise87 - LOL!! So funny that your google search returned you right back to yourself!! If you ever figure out "the split's purpose", let us know!!
Some of the tips, like 129 and 136 have a little metal wire to support the middle of the tip, the wire goes in the groove in the coupler. I couldn't figure it out either but someone else on CC answered it.
Aaahhhhhhhh thanks for solving the mystery!
For those couple of tips we have to suffer leakage using the rest of them lol
I use a #1s for all my outlining. You can't tell the difference between the #1s and the #1 just by looking at it, but it's definitely my choice for fine lines.
As for the notch in the coupler....I have a number of flower tips that have that wire support mentioned by denetteb, and they need that space to fit on the coupler. I also have a really tiny tip that doesn't even fit on the coupler because it's too small. Never gave it a thought when I was buying the stupid thing, but try to use it, and good luck!
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