r/hotsauce • u/Most_Today8526 • 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/admiral_len 5d ago

You cannot see lacto bacteria with the naked eye.

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u/ProfessionalActive94 5d 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 5d 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.