The kit Dave actually uses

Price guide: $ — typically under $30

Dave uses daily

U-100 1 ml lab syringes, 31G

A 1 cc barrel graduated in units, so a small volume is read off a scale rather than judged against a line. A hundred to a pack, because the box that runs out is the one you replace in a hurry.

Price guide: $ — typically under $30

Dave uses daily

Care Touch alcohol prep pads

A vial stopper gets touched, set down and touched again. These are the cheapest thing on this page and the likeliest to be missing when it matters — four hundred individually wrapped 70% isopropyl pads.

Price guide: $ — typically under $30

Oakridge 1-gallon sharps container

Used needles are not household waste and a coffee jar is not a plan. CDC-certified with a pop-up lid, two to a pack, so the second is already in the cupboard when the first fills up.

Price guide: $$$ — typically over $100

Dave uses daily

Upstreman BR321 mini fridge

A kitchen fridge is shared, opened forty times a day and controlled by a dial marked one to five. Storage instructions mean nothing if nobody knows what the inside is actually doing. This one takes a number and holds it.

Price guide: $$ — typically $30 to $100

Govee H5179 WiFi thermometer

A fridge that drifts does it quietly, and you find out from the contents. This logs temperature and humidity and messages you when either leaves the range you set — including while you are away, which is usually when it happens.

Price guide: $$$ — typically over $100

BougeRV CRPRO 21QT portable fridge

Cold storage stops being simple the moment you leave the house. A compressor running on 12 V holds a set temperature in a car or a garage, where a cool bag is insulation with a countdown on it.

Price guide: $ — typically under $30

YOUSHARES insulated travel case

For the trips too short to justify a fridge and too long to shrug at. Insulated, with the temperature on the lid, so “probably still cold” becomes a number you can read.

Price guide: $$$ — typically over $100

Pelican 1400 case with foam

Glass and a bag full of other things is a bad combination. Sealed and crushproof, and the foam plucks out to the shape of what you put in it, so nothing rattles and nothing rolls.

Price guide: $ — typically under $30

Nelko P21 label maker

Two near-identical vials and a date you half-remember is where careful storage quietly becomes guesswork. Prints from your phone, which is the only reason labelling actually happens every time.