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Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #55

Nigel, I think you can use whatever you have handy. I had neither and I also wanted to get some gypsum and there's an Asia Market in Ballymount, D12.

"padraic":rriibgjg wrote: By hard i assume it took a long time? Or is it that you need to slowly add the agar as opposed to lobbing the whole lot in at the same time?[/quote:rriibgjg]
Richie recommended bit by bit in his blog, and I think he's right! I lobbed it all in and I was boiling and stirring forever.

Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #56

I've used gelatin plenty of times, and it's fine. The main pro of agar is that it has a higher melting point, but that hardly matters if you're keeping them in the fridge

Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #57

"Tube":1ciz55gf wrote: Nigel, I think you can use whatever you have handy. I had neither and I also wanted to get some gypsum and there's an Asia Market in Ballymount, D12.

"padraic":1ciz55gf wrote: By hard i assume it took a long time? Or is it that you need to slowly add the agar as opposed to lobbing the whole lot in at the same time?[/quote:1ciz55gf]
Richie recommended bit by bit in his blog, and I think he's right! I lobbed it all in and I was boiling and stirring forever.[/quote:1ciz55gf]

that said, I was less than patient with 'bit by bit' I added it all fairly quickly, and it took a good time to dissolve. That said I used twice as much as tube! My slants were pretty firm though! I also chopped it in so it was going in in small pieces

Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #58

"RichieH":3jig5qti wrote:
I just wrote a blog post about how I make slants with these lovely vials if anyone is interested

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Great blog, has tweaked my interest now!!

Read a good wiki page about it here![/url:3jig5qti]

Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #59

I went to the asian market today (thanks richie for the blog post, I had forgotten that one exists and couldn't find agar in the other ones) I got powdered agar, 25g for €1.20, not bad... Hopefully it being powdered will mean it dissolves better than the cling film everyone else seems to have tried! It'll be a while before i get to use it so I'll update ye whenever that happens!

Yeast Vials - 50 ml Plastic Centrifuge tube [ARRIVED] 13 years 10 months ago #60

powdered agar eh? can you post a pic of the packet so I know what to look for? powdered sounds handier.
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