Microwave for sterilization?

me4ka86

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Has anyone tried using microwave for sterilizing? I read it takes 5mins to kill the bacteria inatead of the 1hour+ for the regular oven.
 
no thats bullshit, microwave radiation is not sterilizing.
Its not radiation it's the heat. You post all this bullshit with nothing to back it. The microwave will absolutely produce enough heat to sterilize a beaker. I would never use a microwave.
 
Bro buy a syringe filter & filter that shit to sterilize it.

After that you could add benzyl alcohol to it afterwards if you don't think it was made with it.

Using the syringe filter sucks but you can use a caulking gun to make it go faster.

In fact heat the oil up on the stove before running it through the filter using the caulking gun & you know it's sterile & it'll go through fat.
 
@Breakneck I think he's asking about his equipment, not the actual product.
Wouldn't use the microwave as well, to little control and no guarantee that you reach the needed temperatures.

Clean your stuff with dish soap, rinse with tap water, rinse with distilled water, rinse with ethanol (i use cheap Spray bottles from an one-dollar store, that way you even have some pressure to clean every angle), cover with sterilized tin foil, put in oven at 250°C for 2h, let it cool down and go for it. I place everything in those one way Lasagna baking tins.
To Sterilize my stoppers i use an pressure cooker, later rinse in ethanol and let them dry in oven in a baking tin at low temperature, always covered with sterile tin foil.

To fill the vials i built a cabin like this one: DIY Sandblasting Cabinet and Etching Glass

It is a 3 hour project, but totally worth it. I modified it with a little bathroom extractor fan and some activated carbon filters to create positive pressure in the chamber. Never had a single floater in my vials.

Sorry, I got a little off topic.
 
Its not radiation it's the heat. You post all this bullshit with nothing to back it. The microwave will absolutely produce enough heat to sterilize a beaker. I would never use a microwave.
If you fill your bakers with water then maybe, but radiating PP will do nothing, and radiating glass which is not necessary made for the microwave can end in a burst of the glass. So yes, if you don t know exactly what you are doing its bullshit and totally not recommended for sterilizing. You want sources? search for baby flask sterilizing there are plenty of sources where it is proofen that microwaves are not really suitable for this purpose, at least no homemicrowaves, also because the radiation ist not even enough but is making hotspots.
 
So what about microwaving premade gear? For killing bacteria if you thought it was contaminated....I think that's actually what he meant and now I'm curious. Microwave radiation lowers serum test in humans and raise estradiol, so in a vial of synthetic?.......
 
Do you have any evidence on this?

Since heating in a microwave is not homogenous, you can expect hotspots, with oil based compounds those temperatures can even rise to over 200 degrees Celsius, or 400 F+. Those temperatures will sure damage the hormones.
Just Google for evidence
 
I've seen premade heated in the microwave and after had a burnt smell when filling syringe.... probably pretty sterile but damn....smh
 
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