Microbiology Equipment Equipment for your Home Micro Lab Equipment you can make or find This page has not been written. I do not expect to do much on it until late 1999. Meanwhile I am just making notes here Preparation of Medium. Other pages have suggested items you can use. Some are relisted here Petri Dishes - plastic lids with foil cover.
Corn syrup is mostly glucose which is a sugar most microbes can use.
Recalling that a liter is 1000 ml or 1000 cubic centimeters, we will add 10 cc of corn syrup to a liter of water. Your ruler is marked in centimeters. So we want to add a slug of cornsyrup about 1 cm x 1 cm x 10 cm long. You can estimate this volume easily and you need not be exact for this first experiment. The begin some simple experiments and you will learn what you need.