Interesting Product Uses & Customer Stories

120mm square petri dish triple vent with lid polystyrene (PS) sterile

Versatile Petri Dish

21st January 2023

Great laboratory product now back in stock 120mm square sterile petri dish The 120mm square petri dish in clear PS... Read More...

Pipettes for Pudding Tipple

11th November 2017

pudding with foodsafe pipettes Homemade or shop bought, individual puddings or family-sized, who doesn’t like a moist Christmas pudding –... Read More...

Batty for Halloween?

30th October 2017

It’s the time of year when thoughts turn to ghouls, spooks and more. Here at The Consumables Company, we’ve compiled... Read More...

Lovingly Crafted Cocktails … …

16th October 2017

Following on from the British Food Fortnight theme, it’s time for cocktail mixing! A relatively new business, Myatt's Fields Cocktails... Read More...

From Bean to Bar …

7th October 2017

As British Food Fortnight ends, we have another blog to... Read More...

Celebrating British Food Fortnight – with pipettes!

4th October 2017

At The Consumables Company we are proud to support British Food Fortnight which this year runs from 23rd September to... Read More...

What’s new with the laboratory-inspired aesthetic? This month – pen and ink!

6th September 2017

We’ve been delighted to notice that the laboratory-inspired aesthetic is gaining momentum across several sectors (especially in food and beauty,... Read More...

Unquenchable thirst for real ale needing the appliance of science

29th June 2017

Image by Beer Superstar Shirts via https://www.tshirtsuperstar.com/collections/beer-shirts Here at The Consumables Company we have seen increasing demand for products which... Read More...

Lab equipment’s unscientific uses can do many a ‘favour’

11th June 2017

We hope you don’t mind, but we’d like to start by asking you a question. “When is scientific equipment not... Read More...

Science mixing with art as café culture continues to grow

22nd May 2017

If someone was placed on a desert island in the mid-90s and then dropped in the middle of Birmingham... Read More...

BBC fame with spatulas, swabs and face masks … …

18th May 2016

A range of our spatulas, swabs and face masks were purchased as props for the CBBC production, Wolfblood. The items... Read More...

Geocaching with TCC’s camouflaged containers

17th May 2016

On close inspection, we think the frogs/toads are concealing 2ml tubes and 3ml tubes with another kind of 2ml tube inside the golf... Read More...

Transporting Nudibranch – aka sea slugs …

28th April 2016

The 120ml pots we sell are used to safely transport these little marine creatures all over the UK and more recently,... Read More...

Crafty 2ml tubes … cute party bags

15th April 2016

Our customer Jo is in the business of party bags & stocking fillers, and shared with us these cute craft... Read More...

Wedding Favours & taste testing – fun use of petri dishes!

9th March 2016

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