[darkspot716]

do you guys portion your dry media into the cups and then add water indivually? or do you putt all your dry media in a bucket and add the water and then portion it into cups?

 

[PeanutbuttER]

Depends I'm sure on how many someone makes a week. I only make a couple so it's easiest for me to portion out the dry media into the cups and add water.

 

[fieldnstream]

Same here, only about 2-3 cultures at a time so I mix cup by cup. I think that mixing a large amount would be harder to evenly divide into each culture, never tried it so can't say for sure. Doing it cup by cup is really easy though.

 

[Ed]

If I'm using my homemade mix, I mix it in a big batch so I can get some of the additives evenly distributed and then portion it out.. It isn't that hard, set the cultures up in a row and then go down the row adding about the same amount to the culture with a spoon (or as Mr. Brown on Good Eats does use a disher or ice cream scoop) and then repeat. I use a spatula to remove the last in the bowl and add it.. it takes me about the same amount of time as to individually portion and mix the Superfly in individual cultures.

Ed

 

[Zoomie]

Individual but that is misleading as I only make two cultures per week and use different media in each.

 

[PeanutbuttER]

...or as Mr. Brown on Good Eats does use a disher or ice cream scoop...

Oh, I love that show.

 

[darkspot716]

i make 20 cultures a week i usually do it individually but i just figured id ask.
thanks for the responses, much help as always

john

ps alton brown rules