Been fermenting at home and professionally for 35+ years. Cleaned everything with dish soap and water and then sanitized with star San. And I use a hose to rinse like crazy. Dumped my Serrano, Georgian garlic and jalapeño fermented mash in a clear Cambro, blended in my ninja and used an OXO food mill to separate the liquid from solids.
As I was using the food mill I noticed some black flecks in the separated liquid. Looked like fine ground pepper. Fished it out with a spoon. More kept coming even though I clean the food mill between each filling. I figured it was just black plastic from one of utensils or the food mill, but when went i to wipe it from the spoon it smeared like grease. I have no idea what it could be. Any suggestions? Toss the batch?
by Smoke_Prod