Nutrient Dish - 60mm

Description

A Nutrient Dish is a Petri Dish with a ready made Nutrient mixture (see recipe below) from which a mycelium culture will be grown.

Method:

- Mix all the ingredients very well and until there are no lumps.

- Pour mixture into a Glass Beaker and cover with Heavy Duty Foil and wrap tight (the foil is a splash cover).

- Place the Glass Beaker in a Pressure Cooker and get it to operating temperature and pressure.

- From this point, cook for 20 minutes.

- Remove Glass Beaker from the Pressure Cooker and wait for mixture to drop to 50°C.

- Pour into the Petri Dishes.

Ingredients/Recipe

• 10g Agar Agar Powder
• 2g Dextrose Powder
• 10g Barley Malt Powder
• 500ml boiling water (will need to add own)