Culture/Test Tube Source

I have been looking around online for a source of culture/test tubes for some yeast freezing and can't find anything locally. I called my LHBS and they don't stock em.

Any suggestions where I can look locally before ordering online and paying shipping on something so trivially small?

I always thought of using the breast milk bags for freezing yeast (yes, I recently had a child). They are smallish ziplock bags designed for freezing breast milk. I do not know if they would be sanitary, but I imagine the standards for baby food anything are pretty high. You can google "breast milk freezer bag"

Catfish said:

I always thought of using the breast milk bags for freezing yeast (yes, I recently had a child). They are smallish ziplock bags designed for freezing breast milk. I do not know if they would be sanitary, but I imagine the standards for baby food anything are pretty high. You can google "breast milk freezer bag"

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Interesting...thanks for the suggestion and somewhat scary google image search!

Looking at the bags it seems like they might be a little more difficult to use and store than standard tubes that I can arrange in a rack but I will definitely check them out at CVS in the next couple of days.

I was hoping to a local supplier of capped culture tubes since they are pretty dang cheap but I suppose I have to decide if I want to go with a kit (http://65.181.150.199/Winestore/BeerAccessories.htm, lower right) or order some tubes from an online supply house and source the rest locally....

American Science and Surplus has many useful things. Test Tubes and Flasks, (+ racks), Stir Plates + bar, Regulators (still!), and tons of other crap you don't actually need.

And the cryptically named testtubesonline.com

EDIT: oops, didn't see the part where you wanted local. Sorry

Bike N Brew said:

EDIT: oops, didn't see the part where you wanted local. Sorry

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Neither did I. It might help a little to know where you are. I'd check school suppliers maybe....

...Craigslist?

I've got nothing.

kvh

woops..thought that was already in my profile...Phila metro

Did a few searches the other day for teaching/school/science/chemistry supplies and finally found a few hits with "lab supplies" this morning.

I resorted to Ebay after I found a seller that shipped USPS so I now have plenty of tubes on the way for some yeast banking!