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underfliptown
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Ziploc bags in PC
#19189666 - 11/25/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Will regular Ziploc bags withstand a pressure cooker?
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underfliptown
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No, they'll melt. You want oven bags, or better yet autoclave bags.
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underfliptown
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: raceme]
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oven bags.. Tupperware... anything that says PP5 plastic is good.
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underfliptown
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Why do people have such a hardon for mason jars then. Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and easier to use tupperware. You could fit a lot more in one of those too.
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thats what im sayin lol....
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underfliptown
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People are pretty fucking dogmatic on this forum is one thing I am starting to realize. It's good to try new things people!
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Valyr
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Well jars are much more rugged and easy to handle when your shaking and breaking up your myc clumps. That might be a reason. And alot of people have actually gone over to bags from jars. Thinking of doing it myself. Think maybe they might be easier to breakup and mix.
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Valyr]
#19190120 - 11/26/13 01:24 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just don't understand how air exchanges in bags.
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Valyr
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autoclavable bags usually come with a sfd patch on them. If not you make one .
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Valyr]
#19191491 - 11/26/13 11:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Valyr said: Well jars are much more rugged and easy to handle when your shaking and breaking up your myc clumps.
Absolutely wrong If you're saying "more" than Bags, definitely not, you can knead bags and get it done far more easily and safely than banging jars against something. If you're saying "more" than tupperware, definitely not, recycling code 5 plastics sterilize quickly and 'give' a bit when you're breaking up their contents. It's easy to break-up grains and nearly impossible to break good containers first.
Bags are pretty cool but sterilization times are really long. Also inoc must be done quite carefully, and I would recommend sterile laminar airflow?
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Violet]
#19191544 - 11/26/13 11:35 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah I know bags are easier to breakup. Or atleast I assume. I havent switched over yet but I am after I use up what I already have pc'd.
I meant rugged as in lasting through many many reuses. I would assume that plastic containers would wear out faster. Again just a guess.
Why would you reccommend any more sterile procedure for noccing a bag than you would a jar? I mean it dont matter cause I got a flowhood anyways but just curiouse. Or however you spell that. I have ship lids for my jars and would use bags with ships aswell so I would think its the same.
Also for those out there that dont have a laminar flowhood, what i use to do was sterilize my over at 400 for 20 minutes or so then open it up, pull out a rack and work in the airflow from the oven. Dont know what the vets are going to say about this but it worked for me . Never got a contam. (nocking on wood again)
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Valyr]
#19191555 - 11/26/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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ziploc bags wont survive.
wave of the future is PP5. days of the masons is coming to a close.
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Violet]
#19191818 - 11/26/13 12:38 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Violet said:
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Valyr said: Well jars are much more rugged and easy to handle when your shaking and breaking up your myc clumps.
Absolutely wrong If you're saying "more" than Bags, definitely not, you can knead bags and get it done far more easily and safely than banging jars against something. If you're saying "more" than tupperware, definitely not, recycling code 5 plastics sterilize quickly and 'give' a bit when you're breaking up their contents. It's easy to break-up grains and nearly impossible to break good containers first.
Bags are pretty cool but sterilization times are really long. Also inoc must be done quite carefully, and I would recommend sterile laminar airflow?
idk why everyone says you have to pc spawn bags longer than jars. I pc 4-6 quarts in extra large bags for 90min @ 15psi just like anything else. Works just fine.
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Valyr
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I would aswell. Though I know its not what he actually said but for some reason I took it he/she was actually talking about pasteurization. It does take longer for bags to reach core temp or so ive read. Never used jars for pasteurization.
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Valyr]
#19192067 - 11/26/13 01:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The problem I have had with pp5 is that the lids aren't always pp5 also
and even if they are, they have a tendency to warp allowing for contams.
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TheApprentice said: The problem I have had with pp5 is that the lids aren't always pp5 also
and even if they are, they have a tendency to warp allowing for contams.
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: 36fuckin5]
#19192298 - 11/26/13 02:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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never personally seen it happen, with any name brand container.
and, thats multi thousands since 2003 with all plastic grows.
i also, use AA cookers, and butane for power.
select containers wisely, and its not an issue.
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Valyr]
#19192403 - 11/26/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've checked out a few super-cheapo containers with lids that were different and warped. The main ones, and good ones, are assured to not do this.
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Valyr said:I would assume that plastic containers would wear out faster. Again just a guess.
I've used containers countless times, some certainly at least 40 PC runs, and they don't wear down at all. They only scratch some depending on how you clean them.
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ForgottenFreshness said: idk why everyone says you have to pc spawn bags longer than jars. I pc 4-6 quarts in extra large bags for 90min @ 15psi just like anything else. Works just fine.
It's because most people load cookers up with more sub in bags, and the heat must saturate far deeper into the core of a large substrate, taking more time. Remember "bags" refers to Many sizes whereas "jars" refers mostly to quart jars for the purpose of this discussion.
If I sterilized a Large & loaded bag for less than 2 hours, CONTAM. 2 large bags of wet substrate in my 16qt cooker required 2.5-3 hours, or else CONTAM.
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Valyr said: Why would you reccommend any more sterile procedure for noccing a bag than you would a jar?
If you're inoculating a bag via the bag's open top, and then sealing it, it's almost necessary to have sterile airflow to fuck around with the bag and the sealer without contams or wanting to pull your hair out.
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Valyr said: I mean it dont matter cause I got a flowhood anyways but just curiouse. Or however you spell that. I have ship lids for my jars and would use bags with ships aswell so I would think its the same.
If using 'seals' on the bag with syringes, no you don't need sterile laminar airflow. However I consider that a pain compared to sealing bags Afterwards. Sealed bags would often burst in the cooker for me, annoying to find after 3 hours at pressure on the stove, a total waste.
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anne halonium
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Re: Ziploc bags in PC [Re: Violet]
#19192430 - 11/26/13 02:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sealed bags would often burst in the cooker for me
dont ya hate that..........
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ForgottenFreshness said: idk why everyone says you have to pc spawn bags longer than jars. I pc 4-6 quarts in extra large bags for 90min @ 15psi just like anything else. Works just fine.
I should point out that you can usually PC a quart for 60 minutes and have it turn out fine but it depends on the size of the microbial population your trying to kill and that can vary. 90 minutes is recommended time for a universally low contamination rate.
The larger the substrate the longer it's going to take the center of it to reach sterilization temperatures that's a fact. No one can tell you the exact amount of time before you start noticing a high contamination rate though because that will vary with each source of grain.
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