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Autoclaves

lamb loes at chello.nl
Tue Apr 30 13:41:41 EST 2002


As long as your stuff is clean, 15 minutes max. pressure should do it. Make it
20 to be on the safe side.
Loes

Shaun Jones wrote:

> Typically how long to you heat the cooker for to ensure sterilisation?
>
> "Manuel Heintz" <heintzm at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote in message
> news:aam2bq$6od$1 at news.uni-kl.de...
> > Hi Shaun,
> >
> > in our institut we use normal pressure cooker which are used in a kitchen
> > (the bottom is filled with water) and heat them on a cooking plate. There
> > you can only autoclave small things and a problem could be that the
> > temperature is not controlled. So it could be that the temperature is
> higher
> > than 121°C. But it works, it goes fast and is not very expansive.
> > Manuel




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