Cleaning and waste management are oft-overlooked parts of the high-throughput experiment design process . This belies their utmost importance: ensuring that labware, chemicals, and instruments are contamination-free -to levels that meet experimental demands -takes up an inordinate amount of time in any traditional laboratory and thus must be given careful consideration in an automated setup if we are to trust the generated data. As mentioned above, the high viscosity reactant made our task very challenging. Using disposable labware is convenient, but while the sample containers are indeed single-use, it was not possible to make the mixer and pH probe disposable.