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Pastywhyte
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Fungus Mountain said: I can't fight it any longer. Something to be said about living in a part of the world with a large Asian population, as I was able to find it at a local Asian market for $2 for a 6oz package (suck it Amazon!)

That brand has refined sugar if I'm not mistaken. Check the ingredients.
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Fungus Mountain
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Pastywhyte]
#20829492 - 11/12/14 10:17 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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That brand has refined sugar if I'm not mistaken. Check the ingredients.
It does. Is that a deal breaker?
Doesn't say refined per say, just Sugar and Agar.
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Edited by Fungus Mountain (11/12/14 10:20 PM)
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stareatclouds
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Yeah, no sugar allowed, sorry. I just bought a cheap $12 coffee grinder and used the agar blocks Pasty uses. I'm in a place with a huge Asian population so it's easy to find an Asian market. They're like $1 or something super cheap.
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Fungus Mountain
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stareatclouds said: Yeah, no sugar allowed, sorry. I just bought a cheap $12 coffee grinder and used the agar blocks Pasty uses. I'm in a place with a huge Asian population so it's easy to find an Asian market. They're like $1 or something super cheap.
-------------------- “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984 "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ― Albert Einstein
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Pastywhyte
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Refined sugar favors contams and the myc stalls out on it. Plus you have no way to measure how much is in it. I bought the same stuff by mistake my first time
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Munchauzen



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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Pastywhyte]
#20829526 - 11/12/14 10:24 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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they sell this stuff in every Whole Foods I've ever been inside. Pricey, but reliably there in the Asian cooking isles.
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Munchauzen]
#20829568 - 11/12/14 10:32 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Powdered agar packets like telephone are good too. Usually pretty cheap as well. $1 a packet is common.
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Fungus Mountain
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Munchauzen]
#20829571 - 11/12/14 10:33 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sweet. As usual, you folks have saved me time and trouble once again. Oh yeah, I had heard Whole foods also carried it. I guess I'll have to venture into the headquarters for yuppie scum.
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Munchauzen



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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Pastywhyte]
#20829624 - 11/12/14 10:40 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pastywhyte said: Powdered agar packets like telephone are good too. Usually pretty cheap as well. $1 a packet is common.
try $.01 a packet http://www.amazon.com/TELEPHONE-BRAND-AGAR-POWDER/dp/B007WZGP14
(plus shipping hehe)
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Munchauzen]
#20829640 - 11/12/14 10:43 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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For a murican maybe. But the six dollar shipping said nope to me 
Edit; they won't even ship to canada period.
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Inocuole
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stareatclouds said:
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Inocuole said: Man some of my plates from my new batch developed a weird whitish flim over the top of them within the first couple days, seems like mycelium doesn't wanna grow on it, so, seems like it could be a contam, will have to edit a picture into here I guess. Never had anything cover the whole surface in like a day though, and it seems to be happening to more than one of my dishes, suddenly.
Is it like this?

Exactly like that.
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MudaFuka
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Inocuole]
#20829667 - 11/12/14 10:46 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bacteria fow show.
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Fungus Mountain
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Munchauzen]
#20829672 - 11/12/14 10:47 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Uwajimaya might carry that brand. I'll have to check it out tomorrow at lunch. I tried the amazon link, but I didn't think .20 cents worth of product was worth $70 in shipping charges.
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MudaFuka
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That's everything I get shipped to Canada. $230 for a 23qt presto. $75 spore syringes. Shipping is a bitch.
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Inocuole
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Is that one particular type of bacteria that colonizes real fucking quick or did I add too much sugar somehow?
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MudaFuka
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Inocuole]
#20829695 - 11/12/14 10:52 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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How long did you PC for. I got that a lot when I was using a cheep PC that only got up to 11.6 PSI.
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Inocuole
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: MudaFuka]
#20829719 - 11/12/14 10:54 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Like 30 minutes maybe, I'm not sure. I guess I'll do 50 minutes just to overkill it in the future. Not all of them have that issue, just the two that I've seen, so far. Though, I did get that on one or two of my last batch which I did for 45 minutes. But I think that was a dish I tried to inoculate with spores. I don't have any proof that I just didn't fail real hard trying to inoculate them.
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stareatclouds
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Re: Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek [Re: Inocuole]
#20829757 - 11/12/14 11:01 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Inoc,
I was sure it was the same as mine from your description. Definitely contamination. I had good ones from that batch too so I'm sure it's something external and not improper sterilization or a bad spore syringe or whatever.
Fungus,
I'm sure Uwajimaya has it, but I got mine at Ranch 99. If you buy a cheap little coffee grinder, you'll have basically a never ending supply of this stuff from a few packages of it. Grinding it is incredibly easy and storage is too.
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Fungus Mountain
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stareatclouds said: Fungus,
I'm sure Uwajimaya has it, but I got mine at Ranch 99. If you buy a cheap little coffee grinder, you'll have basically a never ending supply of this stuff from a few packages of it. Grinding it is incredibly easy and storage is too.
Oh damn, I didn't even think about that place. Great call! I can even hit Harbor Freight and pick up a 'Martha', since I'll be right there.
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taGyo
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Next on my list! I have a syringe of Golden Teacher I'm gonna play with to get my agar down and then I'll buy the strain I'm gonna isolate for years to come!
Any suggestions?
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