My pepper sauce looks unsafe
I canned some pepper sauce. It had peppers and green tomatoes. After 3 days of being refrigerated , the peppers are floating on top and has blobs of cloudy material stuck to the peppers. The tomatoes are on the bottom. I am wondering if adding olive oil has caused this and are they safe
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Cloudy material will be fungus growing in the culture. It is not safe to eat.
Where the contamination has come from is impossible to work out, there are several steps in the canning process during which a failure in the step could result in the canning not being sterile and growing something.
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What is this? In short, check the hot sauce for an unusual appearance, smell or taste (in that order). If any of these seem off, don't risk it, just throw it away. It can be painful to throw away a once-good hot sauce, but it's better than dealing with food poisoning!How do you know if pepper sauce is bad?
How can you tell if opened hot sauce is bad or spoiled? The best way is to smell and look at the hot sauce: if the hot sauce develops an off odor, flavor or appearance, or if mold appears, it should be discarded.Does homemade pepper sauce go bad?
Properly sterilized and canned jars of hot sauce should be shelf stable for up to a year, if kept in a cool, dark location (or in the refrigerator). Homemade hot sauce that has not been canned in a water bath can keep for several months in the refrigerator.Can you get botulism from homemade hot sauce?
Although hot sauces may not necessarily be water-bath canned, they are typically bottled and most likely will have an anaerobic environment that would be conducive to the growth of clostridium botulinum.What does bad hot sauce look like?
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Contamination is also likely if you placed hot or warm food in the fridge. Was the canned sauce room temperature?
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