Customer Reviews

Tupperware 7-Piece Gourmet Decorator Ball Set

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This product is a great idea, but it just doesn't work. The container has to be completely full in order for it to work at all. The amount of force you have to use in order to decorate just one cookie is enough to wipe you out. I love that you can store the left over ingredients right inside and that the different tips can store inside when you are through, but the actual decorating is just too much work.

I really wanted to like this little thing. The first thing I tried it on was deviled eggs, and it choked on the thick, herby mixture. Next I tried a chocolate ganache frosting, and that didn't work well either. The main problem with this is the amount of force necessary to constrict the blue ball part and shove the stuff through the tip--you do it _all_ by hand, basically, and though yes, it is very easy to switch tips and clean up and store and all that, and cheaper to use, it's _far_ more difficult to pipe out of this than out of either 1) a ziploc bag w/a decorating tip stuck in it and the corner snipped off, or 2) a real pastry bag (parchment in a pinch, or preferably cloth) with a coupler and tip. I've gone back to using my old bags and tip sets--the only thing I _do_ use this for, and probably will keep it for this and do recommend it for, is whipped cream. The cream pipes beautifully, and you don't have to contaminate your royal icing bag w/cream and then wash it everytime.

Maybe it's just me, but this little gadget just didn't work for me. I tried to decorate some cookies, but you have to have so much frosting in it to get it to come out smoothly, that it just doesn't work for little jobs. Plus, I found it kind of a mess cleaning it up. Maybe if I were frosting an entire cake and had the ball full of frosting it would have worked better. Too bad, because it's a great idea! I think the problem is that the ball is not flexible enough to work with small amounts of frosting. As with all Tupperware products, the quality of the plastic is very good--it just needs a little refinement.

Did it really take till the year 2001 to invent this little guy????? I'm a newbie at making cookies - a 46 year old with a 2 year old that doesn't want to end up taking my child to kindergarten where people half my age will be (...) up to the teacher with home made perfections and me doing store bought. I've been dribbling chocolate frosting onto Betty Crocker sugar cookies and trying to get creative and wondering how to secure little decorating tips to the end of baggies - good grief - Thank Goodness for Tupperware - watch out little cookies - here I come....

This cute and nifty little plastic ball is easier to fill and handle than a pastry bag, and you can store and refrigerate food in it for later use. I was thrilled at how easily I was able to pipe lines of little rosettes all over my son's birthday cake. I almost find excuses to use this, like piping stars of mashed potato all over my shepherd's pie or swirls of whipped cream over Belgian waffles. There is indeed a bit of stuff that gets left inside the ball -- not all of it can be piped out by squeezing the ball -- but that happens with a pastry bag, too. There's always some waste and/or clean-up involved when you want to get fancy with your food. I guess the real advantages here over pastry bags are (1) the ease of handling (just squeezing; no oozing out the top, as with a pastry bag), and (2) the ease of storage or refrigeration. All in all, I am glad to have this tool.

Easy to use, convienient to save and store cheese spread in, keeps them fresh when you don't use the whole container. Makes my deviled eggs look so professional and pretty. Dishwasher safe too. Gotta love that!

The tips are fine... the unit that holds the filling is not the right material. I don't know if it needs to be made of a different material, or vented...or a different shape but....

Tupperware usually comes out with some real winners. In theory this should have been one. It just falls short of the promise.

Until they work out the design flaws (and I will be looking forward to that very much) I will stick to pastry tips and a zip loc bag...which works fine and doesn't need clean-up.

Three stars for the concept though

There's a favorite young one who turns up his nose and clamps his mouth shut at the sight of carrots. However, once pureed carrots where squeezed out in decorative dollops he gobbled them up. (Thank goodness, I'd hate to think we couldn't outsmart a baby!)

In addition to making vegetables fun and appetizing this nifty gadget makes a plain pudding pretty with swirls of whipped cream or decorates a cake with attractive designs. Who doesn't want a birthday cake with his or her own name on it?

When not in use the 5 nozzles store inside the container.

Thank you, Tupperware!

I love the concept of this decorator ball, easy to store and clean... but the frostings don't come out easily unless it's totally full, which makes for a lot of waste.

The idea is great, but just doesn't work well. Stick with the old fashioned bag.

this porduct is very invovative but require more modifcation in plastic matrials to be more flexbile