How To Break In Cornhole Bags FAST! (Ready to throw in less than 2 hours)

Hi, I'm Wag. I'm Cruella. And we are The Cornhole Couple. We are your YouTube channel all about cornhole stuff. Today, we're in the kitchen. And we're not cooking. Why would we be doing cornhole stuff in the kitchen? Good question. Today, we're gonna be breaking in bags. When you get new bags, most manufacturers don't break them in. And some people will just throw their bags until they're broken in. It takes a long, long time to do it that way. Yes. So if you wanna throw these bags right away, you're gonna have to break them in. You can see these bags are very rigid. They're stiff. Hold them up, they're almost standing flat by themselves. What you want is you want a little bit more drip, a little bit more swag in there because you want that to be loose in your hand. You want it to be able to hit the board and react. You want it to be able to drip into the hole. You want it to be able to move around other bags without getting hung up or bunching up. So you want them to be a little more loose. Yes. I like mine very, very loose. You like yours too loose. She likes hers like just barely a step down from this. No, no. It can't be too loose to where it just falls out of my hand. When I go to throw, it just slides out. It's still gotta stay in the hand. Yeah. So we're gonna walk you through our process of breaking in bags. There's tons of different ways. If you Google how to break in cornhole bags, you'll get like 40 different answers. If you go on these forums and talk about it on Facebook and other social media platforms, and you just ask a question, like how do I break in my cornhole bags? You'll get 70 different answers. It's overwhelming. So this isn't B-Way, this is A-Way. Yes. All right, let's get started. Okay. The first thing that you're gonna need is you'll need like a little bin or a bucket, something that's gonna be able to be filled with enough water to totally submerge your bags. And then you can use a break-in sauce. So what I have here is I have Sacrolax and I have Toss Sauce. This is the snake oil version of Toss Sauce because it's a little more aggressive, a little more break-in. And I like mine more broken than Leslie does, so I like them more aggressive. So you don't have to do it, you know, with regular sauce, you might have to do it twice to get the effect that I would want in like the snake oil, which is a little more aggressive. So I'm gonna use the snake oil today. Let me read the instructions on here and give you an idea of what they recommend that you do. I have to wear my glasses because I'm old. All right, so fill your bucket with warm water, just enough to cover the bags and add one tablespoon full of this sauce under running water. Add all the bags into the solution and let them sit for 30 minutes. And they recommend kneading the bags at the beginning of the soak or use strong kitchen utensil. You can just knead them with your hands and basically you're just kneading it like you would with bread, kind of spreading them out. Really work the corners. The corners is where things get really rigid and on the seams. So if you can really work those when you got that solution on there, that's really gonna help loosen the bag up. In the middle area, you don't gotta work it as much. You actually don't want to pull it too much because you will spread that fabric out. This is a smaller template bag. These are the Rocket Bags Zero Hour. These are a smaller template bag. If you're breaking them in and you keep pulling on them, stretching them out, it will stretch that fabric back out and make it into a larger, a little bit larger of a template bag. I don't wanna do that. I wanna keep the integrity. So I'll just work those corners and work those seams pretty good. And then it says, drain the water, rinse the bags and the solution thoroughly and dry them with the towel as much as possible. And then transfer the bags into a dryer using medium heat for 20 minutes, then high heat for the remainder of 10 minutes. And you may use a towel to help with the drying time. Okay, we're gonna do some of that. We're not gonna do all of that. All right, I have my water running in here right now. And what the instructions say to do is to add a tablespoon of the solution into the running water while you're doing it. Not gonna do that. I'll show you what I'm gonna do instead. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get some warm water and I'm gonna wet these bags until they are completely saturated on both sides. You wanna get that fabric nice and saturated. Now that the bag is completely saturated, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this Toss Sauce. I'm gonna put like a dime size amount of solution onto each side and just work that in. And if you do this on all four bags, it's gonna equal about that tablespoon of solution that it says to put into the water. But I want this directly into this fabric on both sides. A little bit on each side there. Work that in. And then you can just take this and just work that bag. Work it, especially get those corners. Knead that in there really good. Again, I'm not stretching that fabric out. I'm just working those corners and working those seams. That's gonna be your hardest parts to get softer and more broken in. This middle part is gonna be pretty easy to do. You can do one of these rollies right there. That's a pretty good working action because you're working that whole bag and working those seams and working those corners too. And then once you go and put these bags in the water for 30 minutes, that solution will come out into the water and then it'll be nice and worked into those bags too. And you can already see, like compared to, like look at that. I mean, look at one of these other bags that I got right here compared to that. That's just working the sauce in in the first minute. So that bag is already looking really good compared to this new bag right here. Not even folding over. You want it kind of folding over the fingers right there. You want that bag to almost fold in half and sit on both sides of your fingers. If you've got a bag sitting up like that, it's not gonna be able to slide into the hole. Very friendly like, so looking good so far. And I'd say just work these in for, you know, about a minute or so each bag. You don't wanna overdo it. You don't wanna over break them in, get them too drippy. Cause these bags and the reason I bought these bags is because they are a speed that will work for me and Cruella and they are a smaller template. So they're gonna have a fatter fill. So she can grab a hold of it. So I'm hoping that these bags right here are a bag that we can play with together when we're playing as teammates. Once you get done doing that, working that in, you're gonna go ahead and put that bag into the water there. All right, I'm just finishing up that last bag. I got it all kneaded out. And so now I wanna make sure that I have enough water in here. So I'm gonna keep filling this up until the water level reaches just above the bags. They are gonna fill up with air. So you just smash that air out of them. That will let them sink into the water. And also when you smash it out, you can see all the bubbles that's from the solution. So it's getting that solution out into the water too when you smash these bags down. I think I have enough now. Cover the bags, keep them submerged. Turn my water off. Now we're gonna let these set for about 30 minutes. What I like to do about halfway through is I'll flip them over too because the bottom of these bags are sitting on the bottom of the barrel. And so that water and that solution is not getting worked into them right now. So about 15 minutes in, I'll flip these over. And then after 30 minutes, we'll take them out and go to the next step. All right, we're done soaking. Look at this. You can see like where that sauce is like all in the water. So it's nice and soaked in there, but it's gonna be like a little slippery and a little slimy. So what you wanna do is you wanna take your bags out of the solution and you wanna run it under just regular water until it doesn't feel, you'll feel a little bit like a slime, like a little slipperiness on these bags. You wanna do that until you don't feel that anymore. Once you have the bag rinsed out, you're just gonna squeeze out as much of the water that you can get out of there. Possible kind of rotate it, let that water move out of all sides of the bag. And so hopefully, I'm hoping anyway, that these Rocket Zero Hours will be something that Cruella and I can throw together because when we throw together on a team, we always, one of us has to compromise. She likes a slower bag. I like a faster bag. I like a looser bag. She likes a fuller bag. We are totally opposite on bags. So hopefully, this one's somewhere in the middle. And then this one also is a 50-50 fill. So it has a 50% round fill and a 50% flat fill. So it'll hopefully be a little hole-friendly and not bouncy. That's what I'm hoping for. And once you get done bringing that out, you can just place that over here on a towel and then we'll do the other three. Now comes the controversial part, the dryer, because a lot of people will tell you to never ever put your cornhole bags in the dryer. Every cornhole bag I have ever owned and broken in has gone in the dryer. I've never had an issue. I've never had a broken bag. I've never had a bag that shrunk on me because I use no heat. So this contradicts what the Toss Sauce instruction says, which is go medium heat and then high heat. I'm going no heat. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take all four of my bags, toss them in the dryer, and then the towel that I use to pat them dry and let them sit on after I rinse them, that's gonna go in there with it. I'm just gonna unfold that. So it just has something to tumble around in there with. I'll set it on no heat, which is just like an air fluff. And I'll go for an hour and then I'll see if it's dry. And if it's not, I'll go a little bit longer. You really don't want to go too, too long because as these bags are flopping around in the dryer, it is breaking them in more. So when you go to wash your bags later, when they get dirty, you'll want to air dry those. We'll talk about that when we do a video coming up about how to wash your bags. It's gonna be a totally different process than breaking in your bags. You don't want to break them in any more than they already are broken in. Well, here we go. We are all done with the process. Now, the only variation that I did that contradicts the instructions on the Toss Sauce bottle is I put the sauce right on the bags. Okay, yeah. And laded it in instead of just putting it in the water, which is a little bit more aggressive of a break-in. And I threw this in the dryer on no heat instead of low heat and then high heat because I don't want to shrink my bag or mess it up or degrade them. Yeah. My advice is start slow. I mean, I've done this several times, so I know exactly how much sauce to use. I know how long to soak. I know how long to put them in the dryer to my liking. But I would say start slow because you can always break them in more. But you can't go backwards. You can't unbreak them in if you go too far and you get them too floppy. You're like, I think I messed up. And there's just nothing you can do about it. And you can't send them back once you break them in. So here's the real test, the Leslie Field test. Oh, I'm the real test. She always, after I get done breaking the bags, she's like, hmm, too floppy. Or she's like, oh, I probably need to break it in a little bit more. But I kind of know you now. I would hope after 26 years. I know your cornhole bag preferences, what you like and stuff. And this, to me, feels like it's gonna be a good feeling bag for you. We'll have to see how it plays on speed, but feel that and let me know what you think. Okay. Yeah? Yeah. Like how my sack feels? Yeah. Yeah, it packs well. Yeah. Full? Full. Not falling out of your hands? No. But it's broken in enough. Yes. It's not stiff. I mean, it feels good to me. Yeah. It gives, but still the way I throw when I turn, it's not like you like it like that. Yeah. Because I pack them and then turn, it's staying pretty level, so. This will be interesting because I am typically not a fuller, smaller template bag kind of guy, but I think that this will be okay. It got really good reviews, and because of the 50-50 fill on the round and the flat, I think it's gonna be not bouncy and a little hole-friendly. And with it being, it's a 5.5 on the slow side and an eight on the fast side. It's probably the fastest we can get away with you throwing. As together? Yes. Yeah. And we typically will throw like a 5.8. There's a 5.5, eight. Yeah. It runs a little bit faster. You might have to put a little more arc on yours to slow it down. Yeah, I might have to get it a little higher. So, but I don't wanna go too fast on the slow side. I wanna keep it slower on the slow side so I can still roll, I can still cut. If you get too fast with the bag, it just won't, it won't have that cut action that you really need. This will be interesting. Yeah, in the future, we'll throw these on some videos and we'll let you know how we like them. And leave us a comment. Let us know what you do to break in your bags. I'm sure we're gonna get some comments like that. You should never throw them in the dryer. You know, I'm waiting for that comment. That's definitely gonna happen. But we've never had a problem with it. It always works out good for us. It works for us. Now, once we get them broken, we won't throw them in the dryer anymore. When we wash these, they won't go in the dryer anymore. They'll air dry. We don't wanna break them anymore. I like these. These are good enough. I don't wanna break these in anymore. Because also, the more you play with them, they break in more. So you don't wanna overdo it right out of the gate because you're like, oh, this is great, this is great. And then months of playing, you're like, oh my God, this bag sucks. It's way too flimsy. Yeah. Well, the other part is too, you know, you gotta wash them because they will get dirty and that will affect the performance of the bags too. Yeah. So you gotta keep them about like they are when they come out of the box. We try to keep them clean too. That's gonna be a future video. I'm excited to see Tuesdays or league nights. I'm curious to see how we play with these. We'll see. Into pretty. Yeah, that was the most important part. The most important part is that they're pretty. And I mean, they had different colors, these, but I'm a Miami Dolphins fan, so it's the Miami Dolphins colors for me. You just like teal because it's like pretty. It's pretty. But I like the design. The design is nice. The design is cool too. I like it. With the zero hour. Yeah. I kind of like that fallout, you know, design. Really cool. Yeah. This will be fun. All right, we'll see how it goes. We'll let you know. We appreciate you watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.