Ok I'm outing myself here but there was forgotten beef soup in our fridge we just cleaned it out and it was BLUE?!?!? Wtf contam would make it blue??? Like BRIGHT blue!! 🤢🤮 Even w/ all my years in micro I'm not handling this well.
I can't believe y'all talked me into going back into the trash.
Of course I should have known my audience and known a group of microbiologists wouldn't let it slide without photographic evidence.
Promising culprit:
I'm never forgiving @ATinyGreenCell for this
My mom (who made the soup for my birthday) came across this thread and now 1) I have to answer for letting her soup spoil and 2) she's worried @ATinyGreenCell will figure out her secret recipe
THREE TIMES.
Metagenomic DNA acquired!
Blue beef soup swab, stab in beef bullion agar, and metagenomic DNA on its way to @ATinyGreenCell !!
Trying to grow some myself in the mean time using beef bullion agar that smells like Top Ramen 😅 #BlueSoup
Just thinking how absolutely ridiculous the Materials & Methods and Acknowledgements sections are going to be if #BlueSoup becomes a paper 🤣
No turning back now!
Lollll think #BlueSoup is a contender? 😆
Growth after 24h. There's some trace growth on the plate incubated at 4°C but hard to see from photo
CALM DOWN EVERYONE @ATinyGreenCell and I have a plan
Since this is of great debate, no there is not cabbage, beets, garlic (surprising given my family uses it in everything), tomatoes, or soy milk in this recipe.
There's definitely at least 1 carrot though.
Alright we've figured out how the recipe will appear in the #BlueSoup paper 🤣
I forgot we had more witnesses to the genesis!
Left the plates where they were for another 2 days, except the 37°C one was brought to RT, which then grew white stuff over the yellow stuff and stinks to high heaven. RT looked the same. 4°C had impressive growth. Restreaked them all onto TECH agar, awaiting results!
Since I'm catching flak for this, to be clear, these were literally just the blue swabs directly onto the plates to try to grow as much as I can while @ATinyGreenCell receives and revives the swabs I sent him, not an attempt to properly streak out samples.
No blue yet on TECH plates at any temps tested. @ATinyGreenCell is still gonna streak out for single colonies to see if he can find any blue ones hidden.
Dual-coast effort begins!
Observational evidence building...
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