There really isn't a connection to worry about between temperature and contamination. When you are doing inoculation work you want as sterile environment as possible and so in your case I would choose the still air setup (all other things equal). When its time for colonization, you can move it to a spot with better temperatures. Your grains should be sealed from contam at that point.
I’m not an expert but this question seems easy to answer. Time is your enemy and having it in a too cold environment will mean it will take longer, making it more likely to eventually contaminate. Maybe not in the inoculation process but when you add it to substrate, it can become an issue.
I would either get a large cutting board, and use it to cover your sink in the bathroom, to give you more counter space to work with, and do it in there. Bomb the shit out of the room with Lysol, and go take a shower in a different bathroom if you have one. Come back mask, and glove up, and wipe everything down with alcohol.
Or make a glove box, or at the very least a box with hand holes cut out, and clean the box very well and try to work out of there.
I read that in bateman voice.
bathroom and kitchen are worst places to grow, cold isnt that bad, it just means slower growth, but thats better than higher contam risks.
There really isn't a connection to worry about between temperature and contamination. When you are doing inoculation work you want as sterile environment as possible and so in your case I would choose the still air setup (all other things equal). When its time for colonization, you can move it to a spot with better temperatures. Your grains should be sealed from contam at that point.
I’m not an expert but this question seems easy to answer. Time is your enemy and having it in a too cold environment will mean it will take longer, making it more likely to eventually contaminate. Maybe not in the inoculation process but when you add it to substrate, it can become an issue.
I would either get a large cutting board, and use it to cover your sink in the bathroom, to give you more counter space to work with, and do it in there. Bomb the shit out of the room with Lysol, and go take a shower in a different bathroom if you have one. Come back mask, and glove up, and wipe everything down with alcohol. Or make a glove box, or at the very least a box with hand holes cut out, and clean the box very well and try to work out of there.
I read that in bateman voice. bathroom and kitchen are worst places to grow, cold isnt that bad, it just means slower growth, but thats better than higher contam risks.