A very niche kitchen roll question

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I need three inner tubes that are wider than your average kitchen roll or toilet roll. Anyone have any suggestions please?

Blue roll ?

How much wider? You can buy cardboard tunnels for guinea pigs that are like big loo roll innards, but might be too wide?

edit - or a poster packaging tube?

It's not quite the same, but maybe a kitchen foil/ cling film tube. (American ones tend to be longer too, but probably not accessible to you.)

Wider as in larger diameter or longer length?

Might your local florist have some wider rolls that their wrapping paper came on?

How wide are we talking? Ribbon comes on wider rolls but they’re short.
a Pringles can with the bottom cut off might work.
honestly we just need more info.

I buy a giant fat roll (like kitchen roll) that has a wider (and sturdier) tube. I think it's the kind that you hang on the wall in garages or workshops. I'm abroad so can't tell you where to get it, but maybe B&Q or other DIY type shop?

God you're all amazing

Wider in diameter. Probably about three inches? I'll check our a Pringle tube

I am nosy and need to know what this is for 😂

DH suggested trying your local carpet fitter - some carpet comes on a roll.

It's to use as a mold for rice krispie treats for a cake, I need to make towers....

Could you use a bottle? Or does it need a flat top.

Oh my god you’re AMAZING!!! Towers!!! Best of luck op!!! (From someone who bought the caterpillar cake for the last birthday and who’s love to be able to bake!!)

A bottle could work... I need something I can cut off because I won't be able to slide it out

Steady... I haven't made it yet!!

I would use a pringles tube because it will be food safe.

a poster mailing tube would also work. You can also buy almost any size and shape of cardboard on amazon. I sometimes resort to this when I can’t find the shape I need for a project and I don’t want to co struct it manually. I don’t work in food though.

You can buy flat sheets to line baking tins. Some are more robust than others. If you got a stronger one you could roll it into a cylinder of any size you like and fasten the ends with paper clips. Or use a napkin ring/ scone cutter / old mug / whatever you have that's the right size to stop it unrolling. You could just unclip it when set.

Maybe the middle of a tall bottle of fizzy drink? Easily cut out with scissors and if you cut a slit down it you could make it a thinner tube with a bit of tape if needed.

Ooh, I saw a video of someone doing but they didn’t use any sort of mold. They mixed the rice crispies with melted marshmallows, then just shaped that mixture into towers/cylinders with their hands and put them in the fridge to set. Then covered them with icing.

Oh gosh really? I tried to find one but had no luck. That would be much easier!!!

The Beautician in the village has paper on a roll for her treatment bed. She keeps the inners and gives them away to whoever wants them. Worth asking locally?

@IdBeLionIfISaid this lady does it free hand around a dowel , slightly different overall shape but you get the gist

Hoping this link works

https://www.facebook.com/rosiesdessertspot/videos/how-to-make-a-castle-cake/532757828440477/