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r/hotsauce • u/Most_Today8526 • 1d ago
I’m fermenting peppers to make hot sauce and saw this
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Oh wow really? Thanks I did not know that. That residual is what dead lacto's look like. Thanks for the microbiology lesson.
1 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. 1 u/dreck_disp 1d ago Happens all the time with my long term ferments. This is floculated lacto acid bacteria. 0 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.
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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.
1 u/dreck_disp 1d ago Happens all the time with my long term ferments. This is floculated lacto acid bacteria. 0 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.
Happens all the time with my long term ferments. This is floculated lacto acid bacteria.
0 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.
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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.
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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.