Baby bottle sanitiser for yeast slants. Any good

[hebbstar]

Hi

As the title really. Does anyone have any thoughts whether a steam bottle sanitiser would be any good for preparing vials for yeast storage ?

Cheers

[och29]

In theory it will work but they will only be sanitised. When culturing cells you really want to be sterilising things. A cheap pressure cooker is a good substitute for the autoclave that the professionals use.

[hebbstar]

Och

Thanks mate. I'd forgotten about the difference between sanitise and sterilise.

Your response is appreciated.

Cheers

[Mr. Dripping]

http://www.sterislifesciences.com/sitec ... -Dion.ashx

This is a useful article on steam sterilisation and worth a read.

[och29]

Very good article, I think this graph sums up what most people will want to know: