Roger Rowlett wrote:
This goes straight into a bead beater for complete, gentle homogenization in 8 min.
Didn't you mean "complete, foam-producing, surface denaturation-inducing" homogenization? I am not saying that bead beater is worse than the "locally near boiling temperatures-producing" more conventional sonication but surely it's a stretch to call anything related to bead beater as "gentle"?
Also, I always wondered but never seem to find an answer to: has anyone ever measured temperature progression in a bead beater? I'd imagine that there is a lot of heat generated - how does it compare with sonication? (Which, at least, can be easily monitored with a thermometer in real time).
- Dima
