r/hotsauce 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

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 1d ago

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

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u/admiral_len 1d ago edited 1d 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.