Now to dry and grind up the solids for some tasty flavor dust.

https://piefed.social/c/cooking@lemmy.world/p/2479246/fermented-hot-sauce

Great, now I gotta start making my own hot sauce, too.

Give it a try you’ll be happy!

We'll see if my butthole agrees

You can't just make me want to chug hot sauce like this. Mods??

My ass is spewing semi-gassious fluids just looking at the pic 😞

Oh man. I have to take a crack at this myself. I still have a ton of peppers in the freezer from gardening. Any guidance on if this impacts fermentation? I could innoculate with lactobacilli if needed or could mix with some fresh peppers from the grocers.

I froze my whole year’s crop and used some fresh peppers at the end and it worked great.

Ground flavor dust. It’s tasty but hot as shit.

I'm sold.

Freezing usually helps by breaking down cell walls, making it easier for the bacteria to do their thing.

Ideally you should slice your peppers in half (or finer) before freezing, but another good alternative is to blend the thawed stuff into a mash and ferment that. You don't need to inoculate at all, but avoid using chlorinated water.

I typically add garlic, ginger, and something mildly sweet (blackberries, carrots) to balance the peppers, and you can just throw em right in the brine or mash. Typical ratio for a jar is:

• 800g peppers
• 100-200g carrot or blackberry
• 30g ginger
• 30g garlic

Add water, then add 2.5%-4% of the total ingredient + water weight as salt. Add a ziplock bag* of brine to the top to minimize food-to-air exposure surface. Leave on counter a few weeks, burp as needed.

Toss if moldy (but probably won't be if you follow those steps).

*Ziplock bag visual aid:

Thanks so much for the guidance. I will try this in a few days.