Very weird stuff with homemade emulsion

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Hi, posting here again about my attempts to make a homemade emulsion, based on mark osterman's recipe on the light farm. My first batch had some weird emulsion gelling issues, and it was very insensitive in comparison to the estimated 5 ISO listed. This second batch is slightly more sensitive, but is still probably around 0.5 ISO. It also has a weird issue with tons of spots and flecks dispersed evenly throughout. I'll attach the test image I just made, but does anyone know what this is?

I'm considering getting a new batch of gelatin to see if that might be an issue, but there's still the issue of sensitivity. Does anyone have any recommendations for a slightly easier emulsion that I could try to make? I'm considering Kevin Klein's, but I know that there are some super knowledgable people here who might have better options.

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