fermenting Can you ferment thawed peppers?

[cayenneman]

If so do I need to treat them differently than fresh? I have gallon bags of pepper in the freezer that have been coming off at different times. Thanks.

 

[Max Nihil]

I did not know the answer to this but I expect that it can be found on the board somewhere.

However I looked it up elsewhere and the answer is yes and yes.

Thawed peppers will need to drain, fluid will drip from them. Let them sit out at room temp, heating to thaw will affect flavor in a way that people aren't recommending, but it likely depends on the level of heat. Just don't cook them to thaw them and then they can be fermented as is or mashed and fermented as normal etc.

At least that is what others have said.

I bet a lot of delicious sauce has been made from frosted and frozen peppers over the years.
Some people may even choose to do it deliberately as a proprietary (secret) step.

If you go for it and report back I'd bet $10 it was worth it.

 

[salsalady]

Frozen will ferment, maybe add some fresh produce to help it get started. Add a couple leaves of cabbage which can be removed later. I wouldn't drain the peppers. That is loosing a lot of flavorfull liquid that will be replaced by water.
Good luck and have fun. Post pics here if you try it.

 

[ADRUNKK]

Freezing seems to kill the lacto in my experience. As Salsa said, add a fresh pepper or cabbage to get the ferment started.

 

[Crazy Monkey]

I vacuum pack and freeze mine until I have enough for a batch. Let them sit out to thaw and dump everything (peppers and liquid) into fermenting container. Never had any issues.

 

[cayenneman]

I vacuum pack and freeze mine until I have enough for a batch. Let them sit out to thaw and dump everything (peppers and liquid) into fermenting container. Never had any issues.

Thanks monkey and everyone else. I still have fresh coming in as well, so I'll mix the fresh in with the thawed freezer peppers.

 

[peppersproutfarm]

I do the same as crazy monkey. All of mine go to the freezer I've never had any issues with fermentation after freezing. All of my ferments are done vacuum sealed and kick off within the same day of sealing them

 

[Buckskin]

No problem freezing peppers for ferment, I use frozen all the time. Freezing does not kill yeast or lacto, it goes dormant.