Not only that, but I have a condensation problem.
The pretty pictures in my lab book with well-lit, glowing circles of bacteria on a dry plate form a stark contrast to my drippy, singed specimens.
Yes, singed. I'm pretty sure I burned one of them. Note to inner lab genius: do not incubate culture plates inside of Tupperware. Rather like a hot car in the Texas sun, this method will lead to a petri dish filled with death and not pretty pictures.
As much as the plates in the first picture look teeming with life, that is merely a ghostly silhouette of evaporating media while it struggled in the heat. Must reorder supplies.
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