You don’t need hazmat gear or a lab coat from Amazon. All you need is a clean, sterile jar—the kind your grandma used for pickles, but boiled first. No, you can’t use the one with pickle residue. Bacteria love pickle juice almost as much as I love a pasty from Mackinac Island.
Go to your kitchen faucet, run the cold water for two minutes, then fill the jar to the neck. Don’t touch the rim. Not with your fingers, not with your cat, not with your “but I washed them” hands. You’re aiming for “crime scene evidence,” not “kid’s science fair project that grew mold.”
