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Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek 5
#26367313 - 12/07/19 04:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek 
Materials Needed: 30 wide mouth 1/2 pint mason jars 30 Wide Mouth Mason Jar Plastic lids Pressure Cooker 500ml Agar Media Making Agar:Any Agar recipe will work Aloha Culture Media List Frank's Agar Media Journal
My Recipe: 500ml water 1g molasses 6g Light malt extract 8g agar powder
Materials Needed: Sauce pan, Scale, Spoon, Agar, Light malt extract, Molasses, Measuring cup, Small cup

Directions: 1)Add 500ml water to saucepan 2)Weigh 1g molasses and 6g LME 3)Add to water in saucepan

4)Stir until dissolved 5)Turn burner onto low/medium heat

6)Return cup to scale. Press tare button to zero scale. Weigh 8g agar powder. Add to saucepan while stirring.

7)Heat water until it's slightly simmering, stirring occasionally 8)Spoon into mason jars as evenly as possible

9)Put lids on jars and tighten 10)Add 2 quarts water to pressure cooker 11)Slightly loosen lid while loading in pressure cooker
 
12)Load 3 stacks of 8 jars and one stack of 6 jars. Leaving room in front of pressure cooker so that the air vent/cover lock can pop up and seal.

13)Put lid on pressure cooker and pressure cook for 45 minutes at 15-18psi after purging air for 10 minutes. 14)Allow pressure cooker to cool naturally and completely 15)Tighten lids on mason jars as they are removed from pressure cooker 16)They are now ready for use!Pros and Cons Pros: 1)Reusable 2)Easy to make 3)Easy to work with
Cons: 1)Can develop condensation. Can be fixed by pouring off in SAB/Hood 2)Initial cost of jars 3)Must loosen lid in Pressure cooker or it will be vacuum locked to jarPhotos:           
Edited by Just_A_Noob (12/11/19 03:56 PM)
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek [Re: Just_A_Noob]
#26367428 - 12/07/19 05:23 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek [Re: Just_A_Noob]
#26367548 - 12/07/19 06:05 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dude molasses is such a bad ass agar additive, too!
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: Just_A_Noob]
#26367586 - 12/07/19 06:27 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: cronicr]
#26367593 - 12/07/19 06:29 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: mushboy]
#26367604 - 12/07/19 06:33 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I use an old syringe and add 20 cc's per jar
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: cronicr]
#26367608 - 12/07/19 06:36 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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nice. a large serving spoon works well. Its 2 scoops with a regular large eating spoon. That soup spoon works quite well.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: Just_A_Noob] 2
#26367758 - 12/07/19 07:48 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dude, I like the pic where you marked the jars to show how far to loosen the lids. So simple but I don't think I've ever seen that done before.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: Asura]
#26367970 - 12/07/19 10:12 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I saw a guy who used these jars for agar. He took a hole saw and cut thin lexan to the exact size of the jar rim then used the metal ring to secure it into place. Seemed like a decent idea and much better visibility. I just question how well it would seal.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: mcnugget]
#26368119 - 12/08/19 12:08 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sexy Tek write up 👍
Here are my converted BRF jars with an injection port in the middle PE6 with Stamets Enriched Agar
Edited by YogiBear (12/08/19 12:17 AM)
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: YogiBear]
#26368204 - 12/08/19 01:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nice work! I’m going to make the switch to Reusable recyclable glass 1/2 pint jars too. It haunts me how many hundreds of plastic Petri dishes I’ve left on this earth for thousands of years.
Thank you for a great write up!
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#26381849 - 12/14/19 06:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I’ll give this a go. I think I have some lme. Just got these tonight.
I’ve also got about 24 plus wide mouth half pints I’m not using anymore.

A plus I just noticed on this tek, no drilling of lids needed.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: eatyualive]
#26381925 - 12/14/19 07:01 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have some very similar ones that are safeway brand. works great! theyre 1/4 cups
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: eatyualive]
#26382408 - 12/14/19 11:09 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I picked some of these up and have on hand...
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: YogiBear]
#26382434 - 12/14/19 11:29 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just did some of these last week after gettig frustrated with the way my tiny jars have that "quilted" looking glass 2/3 of the way around aren't viewer-friendly. I like it. Not very space-friendly but I can see my culture very easily and makes environentally-friendly me very happy.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: YogiBear]
#26382445 - 12/14/19 11:40 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
alaskappalachian said: Just did some of these last week after gettig frustrated with the way my tiny jars have that "quilted" looking glass 2/3 of the way around aren't viewer-friendly. I like it. Not very space-friendly but I can see my culture very easily and makes environentally-friendly me very happy. 
Yeah, not a fan of the jelly jars.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: YogiBear]
#26382815 - 12/15/19 07:25 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've got 2doz of the 100mm and 12 of the 75mm. I think I'll get more of the 75mm since I'm starting to like the smaller dishes after using Pasty Plates. Haven't poured yet and didn't try no-pour. The 100mm are still sitting in ziploc containers after sterilizing them. Might pick up some bigger Ziploc containters and see if I do a no-pour without boiling over.
Been using ziploc and glad no-pours for the last few weeks.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: Jive Ass Turkey] 1
#26382818 - 12/15/19 07:28 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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one of the things I like about the 1/2 pint is the versatility. You can use it a hundred plus time for agar and still use it for canning food when desired. So the investment is more than just for agar dishes.
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Re: Wide Mouth 1/2 Pint No-Pour Tek (moved) [Re: Just_A_Noob]
#26382843 - 12/15/19 07:47 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was actually looking at 2oz-4oz jars earlier this week. Your tek kinda has me motivated to go ahead and pull the trigger, but dammit I need to use up the tools I already have first before I buy more crap, lol.
That's the only thing I don't know about PP is how many sterilizations it can handle.
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