The thing nobody talks about with basters is you actually see what you're pulling out. With a siphon hose you're just watching water and gunk fly down the tube, but with a baster you get that little puff of mulm in the bulb and you know exactly where it came from. Around fry that matters a lot because you can dodge the wigglers instead of sucking them up blind. I still run a real siphon once a month for the big stuff but the baster handles the in between weeks fine. A $3 tool doing the job of a $40 one is not lazy, it's just smart.

How many guys even read the tech sheet before they start throwing parts at it? That clip looks like a nothing little piece of metal so everybody ignores it. But if it ain't tight against the fill tube, that line freezes solid behind the liner every single time. I fought a KitchenAid three times in one winter before I figured that out and I wanted to kick myself. Clip it right and the callback never comes. Simple as that.