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Agar Pour Tek
    #21848074 - 06/23/15 10:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I've gotten almost all the answers I need before I feel confident in diving into agar and making my own plates.

However, I can't seem to find a good "pour" tek when it comes to mixing up agar.  I'm dead set on using petri dishes as they are already in the mail.

From what I have pieced together from UTSE and reading from those results is this method.  So! Will this work???:

1. Mix appropriate amount of LME, agar, water in a small pot with hot water until all is dissolved.

2. Pour into a glass bottle (Crown Royal in my case because it will fit in my PC)

3. Cover the top of the bottle with Tyvek and then foil.

4. PC (20min? maybe more than that?)

5. Let cool

6. Pour plates from bottle inside an SAB

Is this basically the idea? Am I missing anything?? I can't find any good bottle pouring teks, but RR mentions using a Crown Royal bottle and pouring from that.

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Re: Agar Pout Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21848107 - 06/23/15 10:12 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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1. Mix appropriate amount of LME, agar, water in a small pot with hot water until all is dissolved.



mix agar into cold water and then heat.

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2. Pour into a glass bottle (Crown Royal in my case because it will fit in my PC)



doesn't have to be glass. I use a pp5 shaker bottle that one would make protein shakes in... you can find them at any health store or even supermarket. poked a hole in the snap on lid with a hot nail and siliconed a cut-out sfd on there.

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3. Cover the top of the bottle with Tyvek and then foil.



if you use sfd, you dont need tyvek. top with foil

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4. PC (20min? maybe more than that?)



what psi?

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5. Let cool



cool enough to where you can hold the bottle comfortably, but not cool enough that it starts gelling

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6. Pour plates from bottle inside an SAB



give it a quick and smooth swirl and pour away. dont put your hand over the plates when they are open.

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Is this basically the idea? Am I missing anything?? I can't find any good bottle pouring teks, but RR mentions using a Crown Royal bottle and pouring from that.



that is basically it. I like the shaker bottles because they have measurement lines in ml and the lid has a pour spout. good luck!


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21848115 - 06/23/15 10:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Been awhile since i used agar, but if i remember correctly.... taking a coffee mug of boiling water an putting it on top of a stack of cooling agar will stop condensation from forming on the lids.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21848117 - 06/23/15 10:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I pc for 45 min. Wait about 2 hours after pc cycle is done to pour to reduce condensation on petri lids


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: azur]
    #21848238 - 06/23/15 10:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

OK good info.  I'll PC at 15psi for 45min.

Also I'll pour when it's still hot, I did not know it would gel up that easily.  Is there a temperature to aim for? 160°F+ ? ..since 140°F - 160°F is pasteurization temps? Or is this ONLY because agar gels up and becomes unpourable once cool?

Sksoul, if I used a Crown Royal bottle the only opening would be the top and I wouldn't be using an SFD.  I would need some form of a lid that allows pressure change so that's why I figured take a piece of Tyvek and rubber band it around the bottle neck, then cover will foil to keep water droplets from raining down off the inside lid of the PC.

But I like you idea better of using a pp5 water bottle with measurements and drilling my own hole to make an SFD hole for pressure change.

How long to I let the poured plates cool before I can knock them up?

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21848269 - 06/23/15 10:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Wait 2 hours like i said after pc to pour. Then after pouring, wait an hour to work with


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: azur]
    #21848385 - 06/23/15 11:19 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Wait 2 hours like i said after pc to pour. Then after pouring, wait an hour to work with





2 hrs? Are you leaving the bottle in the PC or something? I feel like my bottlewould start to gel up by then.

I take my bottle out once the pressure falls and I pour as soon as I can hold the bottle

I dont really get condensation problems, only the top plate or two. If I set a jar of hot water on top it resolves that but I dont usually bother


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21848388 - 06/23/15 11:21 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Wait 2 hours like i said after pc to pour. Then after pouring, wait an hour to work with




:whathesaid:

2 hours is a good round number. I don't really check the time like azur suggested, I pour when I can hold my pc from the sides with bare hands and not get burned.

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Sksoul, if I used a Crown Royal bottle the only opening would be the top and I wouldn't be using an SFD.  I would need some form of a lid that allows pressure change so that's why I figured take a piece of Tyvek and rubber band it around the bottle neck, then cover will foil to keep water droplets from raining down off the inside lid of the PC.




you can poke a small hole in the crown royal cap as well. either stuff it super tight with polyfil, or use 4 or 5 layers of micropore tape. I don't think a rubber band around tyvek would hold tight enough for sterility, but admittedly, I've never used tyvek as a filter.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: mushpunx]
    #21848395 - 06/23/15 11:23 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Yes. I leave everything  (agar, grain, tools) in pc until it's cool enough to use. it's the most sterile place for them to be


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: azur]
    #21848554 - 06/24/15 12:14 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Yes. I leave everything  (agar, grain, tools) in pc until it's cool enough to use. it's the most sterile place for them to be





Ah ok yea I gotcha now. I carry my PC upstairs and put my agar bottle in front of the hood untill I can touch it. It cools pretty quick


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: mushpunx]
    #21848635 - 06/24/15 12:49 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Stacking your plates after you pour them really helps cut down on condensation. Condensation is only limited to the top few plates, and if you wait long enough to pour you can end up with virtually no condensation.

Also, don't use tyvek or make a fancy lid for your bottle. Just put a cotton ball or some poly in the neck and then cover it with foil. Work quickly and methodically when pouring your plates. If you're using a SAB that you have set up all the time, you can keep the blank plates in there without wrapping them for quite some time. If you're gonna be storing your plates out in the open, I recommend wrapping them.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: NumeroEno] * 1
    #21848921 - 06/24/15 04:04 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I could leave the plates in the SAB if I wanted.  When I made it I fitted the hole with female PVC pipe fittings.. I can cap off the whole SAB.  But I should I wrap them at some point regardless??



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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21849156 - 06/24/15 06:52 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I poured my last plates at 130 F (used an infra red thermometer),  which is the only temperature that I found, through extensive searching. Poured 44 plates. Last few ml gelled in the flask...

Straight away into ziplock sandwich bags. Plates sit for a few days, at least. Parafilm after inoculation.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21849167 - 06/24/15 06:58 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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I could leave the plates in the SAB if I wanted.  When I made it I fitted the hole with female PVC pipe fittings.. I can cap off the whole SAB.  But I should I wrap them at some point regardless??



BLiNK




This is my exact SAB lol, right down to the PVC clean-outs! In this case, you only need to wrap your plates once they're inoculated and you plan to remove them from the SAB.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: azur]
    #21849262 - 06/24/15 07:39 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Wait 2 hours like i said after pc to pour. Then after pouring, wait an hour to work with



This is the way I do it too, only I usually leave the freshly poured plates in front of the flowhood until the next day before inoculating.  To each their own though.  Whatever works.  There is more than one way to skin a cat.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: hamloaf]
    #21850297 - 06/24/15 12:41 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Well I don't have a flow hood so for now the plan is to leave them in the SAB until inoculation. 

I don't have any parafilm but I do have GLAD Cling Wrap.  I had my finger on the purchase button for the parafilm but when I saw it was $25 a roll I decided against it. Maybe when I have more money I'll order some.

Now if these petris could get here already! I'm getting anxious..

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21850335 - 06/24/15 12:51 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I prefer saran wrap to parafilm anyways. You'll be fine


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: maddchef]
    #21850379 - 06/24/15 01:00 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Not to diss Saran Wrap, as I haven't used it, but that 250' roll of Parafilm goes a long way.  Less than 6" gives me 1 1/2 wraps around a standard plastic petri...


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: Green Bastard]
    #21850458 - 06/24/15 01:19 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I've read RR say that when half a plate was wrapped in parafilm and the other half in saran wrap, the parafilm kept the myc growth at a rapid pace the entire time while the saran wrap/(polysomethinglene) showed rapid growth only during the beginning, and slowed as it grew larger.

So that motivates me enough to want to try it at some point for sure.


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Not to diss Saran Wrap, as I haven't used it, but that 250' roll of Parafilm goes a long way.  Less than 6" gives me 1 1/2 wraps around a standard plastic petri...




That's the roll I was looking at. Lol

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21850488 - 06/24/15 01:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I have been using the same roll of saran wrap since I started in 09'.

I usually don't want or need my plates to grow rapidly.

The difference is minimal anyways. Talking a day or two


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: maddchef] * 1
    #21850702 - 06/24/15 02:21 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I use saran wrap because I like it better for this purpose than trying to peel the backing off of parafilm. parafilm is great for some things but I don't use it for my fungus plates at all

Agar should be poured at about 47C use a water bath to get your agar to the right temperature.

after it's at 47C pour it and then your plates will be ready in 10-15 minutes.

agar only needs to be PC for 15m at 15psi. most lab grade agar recommends 10 or 15 minutes actually. longer certainly wont hurt any of our agar recipes we use.
http://www.fda.gov/food/foodscienceresearch/laboratorymethods/ucm063519.htm

you don't need a filtered lid to do agar, like the way RR does.

you can use a bottle made for agar pouring




these bottles have a polypropylene ring at the lip of the bottle so agar doesn't dribble down the side of the bottle. you DO NOT need to modify a lid to do agar

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/20947447#20947447
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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: NumeroEno]
    #21850714 - 06/24/15 02:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Stacking your plates after you pour them really helps cut down on condensation. Condensation is only limited to the top few plates, and if you wait long enough to pour you can end up with virtually no condensation.

Also, don't use tyvek or make a fancy lid for your bottle. Just put a cotton ball or some poly in the neck and then cover it with foil. Work quickly and methodically when pouring your plates. If you're using a SAB that you have set up all the time, you can keep the blank plates in there without wrapping them for quite some time. If you're gonna be storing your plates out in the open, I recommend wrapping them.



:whathesaid:

the best place to store your plates un-poured or poured is in the sleeve they came in, it's a sterile sleeve, and it's petri dish shaped and sized.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21851310 - 06/24/15 04:28 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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I use saran wrap because I like it better for this purpose than trying to peel the backing off of parafilm.




Maybe this will make things easier. Precut parafilm into lengths and then stretch one corner of each piece with your thumbnail. From there, removing the paper backing is a breeze. I certainly think its easier than pulling a length of plastic wrap, but to each their own.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21851359 - 06/24/15 04:36 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Agar should be poured at about 47C use a water bath to get your agar to the right temperature.

after it's at 47C pour it and then your plates will be ready in 10-15 minutes.




So if I PC'd my agar and it accidentally got to cool, could I get a hot tub of water and warm the bottle back up until it was fluid enough to pour? And this wouldn't hurt the agar?

That sounds easy if that's the case.

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21851484 - 06/24/15 05:05 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I don't pull out a lenght. I simply run the roll around the dish. It's stupid simple and it takes me all of about 8 seconds to wrap a dish.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: maddchef]
    #21851571 - 06/24/15 05:26 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I personally like parafilm, but it's just a matter of preference. I only have to peel the backing back once when I start the roll. Once I have a little bit separated, I can just cut  as much parafilm as I need and trim the paper backing off separately when it gets too long.

Bod, I thought a lot of liquor bottle lids couldn't withstand a PC cycle. I use this cool pyrex vinegar cruet personally, but I mentioned the cotton ball and foil because Stamets does it that way with an erlenmeyer flask.

Those nifty autoclavable media bottles you use can just go with the lid slightly loose, right?


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21851651 - 06/24/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Agar should be poured at about 47C use a water bath to get your agar to the right temperature.

after it's at 47C pour it and then your plates will be ready in 10-15 minutes.




So if I PC'd my agar and it accidentally got to cool, could I get a hot tub of water and warm the bottle back up until it was fluid enough to pour? And this wouldn't hurt the agar?

That sounds easy if that's the case.

BLiNK



doesn't work that easy, to re melt agar you'll have to microwave it. loosen the lid a bit and don't boil over. agar has a property called hysteresis look it up (hysteresis agar)


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I personally like parafilm, but it's just a matter of preference. I only have to peel the backing back once when I start the roll. Once I have a little bit separated, I can just cut  as much parafilm as I need and trim the paper backing off separately when it gets too long.

Bod, I thought a lot of liquor bottle lids couldn't withstand a PC cycle. I use this cool pyrex vinegar cruet personally, but I mentioned the cotton ball and foil because Stamets does it that way with an erlenmeyer flask.

Those nifty autoclavable media bottles you use can just go with the lid slightly loose, right?



you need to use a bottle that all the parts can take an autoclave cycle, that's a given.

when using a media bottle the lid is slightly loose yes.

you can use a filtered bottle or flask if you want but media bottles are made specifically to operate like this with the lid slightly loose and all that.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21852087 - 06/24/15 07:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

If I use a Crown Royal bottle what do you guys suggest I do for the cap? The cap is plastic, so I could drill a hole and place some tyvek filter discs up inside the cap.... ???

Or should I wait til I can get my hands on a pp5 bottle that can withstand a 15 min PC at 15psi?  I haven't looked into these at all, however, and don't know where to start looking..

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21852094 - 06/24/15 07:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Use a crown bottle and leave off the top.

Just stuff enough polyfill in the opening that its tight


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: maddchef]
    #21852168 - 06/24/15 07:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Use a crown bottle and leave off the top.

Just stuff enough polyfill in the opening that its tight




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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: NumeroEno]
    #21852178 - 06/24/15 07:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I wouldn't trust a crown royal cap but if you don't have a bottle you'll have to use a polyfil stuffed neck. just carefull to let your PC cool down very slow.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21852489 - 06/24/15 08:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Yes, and bring the pressure up very slowly and don't fill the bottle too full. If it boils over and that polyfill pops out you're in trouble. The nice thing about the bottle I use is that it's vented, and made in such a way that all I have to do is cover the top with foil.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: NumeroEno]
    #21853570 - 06/25/15 02:17 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

The polyfill Idea is definitely noted.

When looking for a pp5 water bottle that cab sustain a PC cycle what should I look for? How do I know what pieces will crack, deform, melt, etc?

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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21853618 - 06/25/15 02:46 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Polypropylene (PP5) is safe to use in a PC.  You just need to look at the bottom of the container to find the type of plastic.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: ShroominMe]
    #21853718 - 06/25/15 03:54 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Polypropylene (PP5) is safe to use in a PC.  You just need to look at the bottom of the container to find the type of plastic.




:whathesaid: That's about it.

Most shaker bottles are pp5. You could probably find a bunch at your local GNC like this one.

Don't worry if the lid or snap-on cap doesn't say "pp5" it is polypropylene and will hold up through any pc cycle you put it through.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: Sksoul]
    #21855125 - 06/25/15 01:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Hell man go buy a bottle of Snapple. Punch a hole in the top with a nail and stuff polyfill. Reuse, reduce, recycle

I use my qt jars with sfds just so I don't have to have a special bottle although if you don't twist at the end you will get a drip with them, its just too easy and convenient


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: Green Bastard]
    #21855164 - 06/25/15 01:18 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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I poured my last plates at 130 F (used an infra red thermometer),  which is the only temperature that I found, through extensive searching. Poured 44 plates. Last few ml gelled in the flask...

Straight away into ziplock sandwich bags. Plates sit for a few days, at least. Parafilm after inoculation.



Pour faster next time. My last batch I started pouring at 120 degrees(checked with infrared thermometer) and I got all 20 plates poured but the last plate was gelling up out of the bottle and wound up a little lumpy. It's colonizing right now. :wink:


Condensation can be cleared up with a hotplate on very low. Just set the plates face down on the hotplate for a few minutes it should be cleared up(depending on how heavy the condensation is). I set my cimarec hotplate at 35-40c to clear up that condensation when I need to. can't fit a ton of plates on it but it works for a few plates in a pinch. Sometimes condensation is just impossible to avoid. I even got some on those plates poured at 120.

I use a Jose Cuervo Silver Tequila bottle. Clear bottle with a nice neck and metal cap that I drilled a hole and siliconed an SFD patch to. I put my PC in front of the flowhood and open as soon as pressure hits 0. Then I take out the agar bottle and set it in the airflow until it reads 120-130 from and infrared thermometer. It's 190 coming straight out of the cooker.




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If I use a Crown Royal bottle what do you guys suggest I do for the cap?



Test the cap in the cooker. Put it in a 1/4 pint jar with no lid and cover it with foil. PC it for 35 mins. If the cap hasn't reduced to a puddle in the 1/4 pint jar or hasn't warped or the threads melted or been compromised in any way, its probably ok to use.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: Juiceh]
    #21855825 - 06/25/15 04:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Crown royal cap will not melt in pc


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: azur]
    #21855853 - 06/25/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

it will if you use a over sized propane burner with a full brand new crown royal bottle lid never opened. let it run dry then tape the weight down and turn the burner up all the way and wait for it to fail. alternatively use 91% isopropyl instead of water for liquid in the PC. post the results on youtube from behind at least single strength window glass.


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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: bodhisatta] * 2
    #21856008 - 06/25/15 04:48 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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it will if you use a over sized propane burner with a full brand new crown royal bottle lid never opened. let it run dry then tape the weight down and turn the burner up all the way and wait for it to fail. alternatively use 91% isopropyl instead of water for liquid in the PC. post the results on youtube from behind at least single strength window glass.




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Re: Agar Pour Tek [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #21856814 - 06/25/15 07:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Bodhista has been on point lately lol


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