Loyal readers (such as there are, ha!) will remember my recent quest to find some calf thymus (beef sweetbreads) for labwork. Well, today was the big day. I got the stuff from Dickie Blood of the Blood Farm, who was kind enough to humor me with a picture.
Once back in Boston, I started the first step of my multiday protein purification: grinding the tissue up under liquid nitrogen. Here's a few pics of that process.
Hopefully this thing will work the first time through, but that's always a crapshoot in this business.
Well, at least for me it is.
4 comments:
mmm! i do love the sight of sweetbreads in the morning... glad they came through for you!
[go sox!]
mmmmm...looks appetizing. Any liquid N2 accidents? :-)
No accidents, thank God!
I was pretty careful with it.
Awesome you busted out with the pestle & mortar! I need to get mine out and make some spices soon.
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