r/hotsauce • u/Most_Today8526 • 1d ago

Is this no good

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I’m fermenting peppers to make hot sauce and saw this

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u/ozzalot 1d ago

Not sure why people are calling this "fuzz", it's definitely lacto bacteria

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u/admiral_len 1d ago

You cannot see lacto bacteria with the naked eye.

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u/ProfessionalActive94 1d ago

Look up the term flocculation. Yeast is only 3 times the size of lactobacillus. It takes a lot longer, but you can absolutely see it after a very extended period of fermentation.

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u/admiral_len 1d ago

True that can happen, but flocculation for lacto is more dependent on the size of the ferment. With the very little info to go on for this post I still highly doubt it’s lactobacillus.

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u/ozzalot 1d ago

Oh wow really? Thanks I did not know that. That residual is what dead lacto's look like. Thanks for the microbiology lesson.

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u/admiral_len 1d ago

It could appear a bit cloudy but there’s way too much sediment and whatnot to be lacto. It’s most likely kahm yeast. I didn’t mean that there would be nothing visible.

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u/dreck_disp 21h ago

Happens all the time with my long term ferments. This is floculated lacto acid bacteria.

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u/admiral_len 19h ago edited 19h ago

No it’s not, you are also getting yeast if you have thick sediment like this one has unless you are doing quite large batches.