This was a cheap lesson as things go. Shouldn't have happened in the first place, I'd been prepared for it, and knew it could happen but I got lazy and curious on whether bad things would actually happen if I didn't keep my guard up. And they did, whoppity doo-dahh. Don't know what I was expecting.
The monetary loss strictly was maybe a dollar of chillies, even less because I tried half the chillies in the dehydrator. Not much of a timesink either because it didn't take me too long to cut those jalepenos. Still quite disappointed though, because I had high hopes for the chilly water.
This is what I did: I washed a bunch of chilli peppers, added a little bit of kombucha vinegar into a container a little bit of salt, a whole lot of water and dumped the peppers in. The spicy chemicals in the pepper dissolved in the water and the water was 'spicy'. I could use the water to garnish my veggies, just drink like that, flavor my kombucha so many options.
It failed however because I didn't 'sanitize' the chilli peppers in anyway, so the top part got infected with mold, there's gross white spots on top. I could have taken several steps to avoid it. First, could have blanched them before putting in the jar. Or could have used weights to weigh the chilli down. Could have also put the entire thing in the fridge. Even easier, put the thing in the fridge for a couple of days until the water got all spicy, throw out the peppers, and then keep it out thereon because there was nothing to go bad. I did none of that.
I knew right from start there was a chance the chillis might go bad. I thought, hey I dipped them in kombucha vinegar and salt, that's probably going to sanitize them from the meanies in the air right. I was so very wrong. It didn't and I lost those fifteen minutes. As a tribute to the lost soldiers haven't even dumped the jar yet, getting on that tomorrow.
Not a huge loss, just a bummer.
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