This might have been covered before, but I didn't see a sticky for it. Is there a recommended list of items out there that one should buy/have when attempting their DIY?
The current items I've got seem like they could use some improvement on: 1ml pipette, 3ml pipette, 2ml screw top dropper, 30ml measuring cup. Got 1ml, 6ml and 12ml syringes, but never did figure out if it accounts for the fluid in the length of needle tip or not when drawing fluid up into the syringe (don't think it does), so I've left those alone for now.
I've been thinking about perhaps buying polypro graduated cylinders (like a 5ml, 10ml, 25ml and 50ml), or the tiny 1ml glass dropper (that has .1ml markings), or anything like that which would increase my accuracy, or is just a good thing to have available. I've got gross measurements down pretty easy (like lets say, make 30ml's of XYZ), but trying to get more precise at the very small quantities (like when you are trying to make a new recipe, and only want to make 5ml's or less and need oddball measurements of flavor %'s)
Advice is most welcome in my efforts to be precise with either the equipment I'm using, or even technique advice on how to properly measure using different things, or links to threads that have already discussed this (so I can read up on it myself)... It's been a long time since high school chemistry/science classes, and I don't measure stuff like this at work. Thanks in advance!
The current items I've got seem like they could use some improvement on: 1ml pipette, 3ml pipette, 2ml screw top dropper, 30ml measuring cup. Got 1ml, 6ml and 12ml syringes, but never did figure out if it accounts for the fluid in the length of needle tip or not when drawing fluid up into the syringe (don't think it does), so I've left those alone for now.
I've been thinking about perhaps buying polypro graduated cylinders (like a 5ml, 10ml, 25ml and 50ml), or the tiny 1ml glass dropper (that has .1ml markings), or anything like that which would increase my accuracy, or is just a good thing to have available. I've got gross measurements down pretty easy (like lets say, make 30ml's of XYZ), but trying to get more precise at the very small quantities (like when you are trying to make a new recipe, and only want to make 5ml's or less and need oddball measurements of flavor %'s)
Advice is most welcome in my efforts to be precise with either the equipment I'm using, or even technique advice on how to properly measure using different things, or links to threads that have already discussed this (so I can read up on it myself)... It's been a long time since high school chemistry/science classes, and I don't measure stuff like this at work. Thanks in advance!
