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Working in lab, apart from lab works, there’ll always be times where we are craving for snack or drink. Well, you know, most of biological labs are strictly prohibited from eating and drinking, it is killing for some of us especially after long hours staying in lab working hard on a work.

As a coffee addict, I usually have my coffee during lunch break. But most of the time, those “kopi tarik” or nescafe can be pretty s*ck by its less coffee powder and excessive condensed milk, though I had again and again asking for less sweet coffee, it will either turn out to be still the same or ‘coffee favor sky juice’ — tasteless!

To stop myself from walking back to the lab full with disappointment and stop spending monies (RM1.40/cup) on those unworth coffee, I finally bought myself some 3 in 1 nescafe which is much more cheaper, costing only about RM0.20~0.30/pack and giving me same aroma and taste. All I need is another mug of hot water, and it’s provided by water heater (not water bath) in another room.

I was surfing through internet one day searching for journals and protocols, I had a good laugh seeing this pics.

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The person who created this photo just do it for a memory photo, he/she don’t drink it. But when I went through replies over this photo, I almost felt down from my chair!

“During the wee hours of the morning Me and my senior lab manager (my buddy) was really sleepy and desperate for coffee since I still had to wait for my PCR to finish while he had to wait for some hours before he would harvest his hybridomas, we found the coffee maker but found the sugar and creamer bottle empty…

Brewed coffee with sugar without creamer would be fine, BUT… Coffee without sugar and creamer is for us unacceptable…

So we made a pact, sneaked to the analytical lab, used laboratory grade glucose… and crossed our fingers that the spatula used for the glucose wasnt the same one used for acrylamide.”

And some one else come out with this recipe:

“Power shake for Scientist tongue.

1 L
10g/L BSA
10mM Glucose
50mM Glutamate
5mM Sodium chloride
1%v/v Glycerol
0.05% v/v Palmatic acid

Make up in 1L bottle
Autoclave

Add 5ml 100% Ethanol (optional)

Place in beveled flask and shake for 1hr in shaker
Cool on ice for 30min.
Aliquote in 50ml tube and introduce orally.”

lol! these are crazy scientists!

I once hold a bottle of D-glucose, staring at the bottle label and wondering if it is different from the glucose from supermarket? It is research-grade purified, very fine, solubable in water and much more expensive compare to the one on supermarket shelf. Practically it should be consumable, but to date, i still dare not give it a try, my chicken heart saying: no no NO!

Ok, back to coffee. I admit that I drink in lab, but only in front of my lab’s computer, no where else.

Btw, I was also thinking, is the ices from ice maker safe for consumption? How about ice-coffee?

Coffee agar? coffee shake? Anymore?

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