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Baird-Parker Medium

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. 10 g Beef
  2. 20 g Distilled water
  3. Soy
  4. 5 g Yeast
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Tryptone: 10 g Beef extract: 5 g Yeast extract: 1 g Sodium pyruvate: 10 g Glycine: 12 g Lithium chloride 6H 2 0: 5 g Agar: 20 g Distilled water: 1 litre Autoclave 15 min at 121“.
  2. Final pH, 7.0 ± 0.2.
  3. If desired for immediate use, maintain melted medium at 48-50“ before adding enrichment.
  4. Otherwise, store solidified medium at 4 ± 1“ up to 1 month.
  5. Melt medium before use.
  6. Trypticase (Tryptic) Soy Agar Trypticase peptone: 15 g Phytone peptone: 5 g NaCI: 5 g Agar: 15 g Distilled water: 1 litre Heat with agitation to dissolve agar.
  7. Boil 1 min.
  8. Dispense into suitable tubes or flasks.
  9. Autoclave 15 min at 121°.
  10. Final pH.
  11. 7.3 ± 0.2.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan