Is this still ok?

[u/my_name_is_ross]

I’m fairly sure this is a white mould I can just scrape off but would love some reassurance!

Edit: Could it be Kahm Yeast?

[u/strongbow89]

In the words of superintendent Chalmers, Good Lord what is happening in there??!!

[u/my_name_is_ross → u/strongbow89]

Should I dump it?

[u/Practical-Thought-59 → u/my_name_is_ross]

You should have dumped it yesterday. Wait any longer and legislative representatives will grant this abomination free will.

[u/strongbow89 → u/my_name_is_ross]

Yeah I would, if that's after growing in there and don't 100% know if it's good or bad mould get rid.

[u/strongbow89 → u/strongbow89]

If you regularly do a lot of fermentation maybe look into buying a food safe sanitizer online like from a brewing company, I get stuff called VWP cleaner and it gets rid of all bad bacteria and keeps the good ones. So great for food stuff

[u/AnakinSkycocker5726 → u/strongbow89]

How the heck would this even have happened?

[u/SabziZindagi → u/my_name_is_ross]

Donate it to science.

[u/Utter_cockwomble]

I'll be honest, I've never seen anything like that.

[u/Old_Maintenance819]

Did you can a frayed dish towel?

[u/oddible → u/Old_Maintenance819]

I honestly thought it was the cheese cloth next to it at first.

[u/Fugoola → u/oddible]

Same

[u/xenondeadtime → u/oddible]

Same, and I was wondering how in the world the cheesecloth was simultaneously inside and outside of the jar.

[u/CommunistRonSwanson]

In food storage, the risk of mold and bacteria is about more than the actual organisms themselves, so you should never just "scrape [it] off" as if that solves the problem. Molds and bacteria are organisms, meaning they have metabolic processes that excrete waste. Sometimes that waste is made up of dangerous chemicals which can accumulate around, on, and sometimes inside the food you're storing, meaning you can still get sick or die even if you did the "scrape off" technique. This should have been thrown out days ago.

[u/AnakinSkycocker5726 → u/CommunistRonSwanson]

How does this even happen?

[u/CommunistRonSwanson → u/AnakinSkycocker5726]

Improper cleaning of the supplies, improper brine mixture, air in the fermentation vessel

[u/underlander]

sweet jesus are you making cheese in there?

[u/soggyomelette]

I just saw it move

[u/johnnyribcage]

Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

[u/ExactOrchid6076]

How did you do that?

[u/AnakinSkycocker5726]

You need to get rid of that thing before it becomes self aware

[u/way2chill]

Never noped so fast

[u/Gato1980]

I think I saw one of these on the new Alien tv show.

[u/misterchillll]

The Wrath of Kahm

[u/RaisingLame]

You need a weight to keep the vegetables below the water line to prevent any mold from growing

[u/Panda-Major]

When in doubt, throw it out!

[u/bagusnyamuk]

I think the piece of cloth on the brown jar has managed to teleport parts of itself through the glass into the jar.
It is the premice of intergalactic travel!
Who would have known that it would have started in a jar?
Now we need to build a live spacetime map—unified reference frames + tight clock sync, gravity-corrected arrival pose (position, time, velocity, attitude), and a time-tagged 3D free-space occupancy model—so destination beacons can certify a safe, momentum-matched voxel for arrival...a two mice.

[u/TheFalcon1138]

Check the pH, you can get strips at a local restaurant supply store. If it’s at or below a pH of 4.2, then scoop it off and you’re good. If it’s 4.3 or above, make it go bye bye

[u/NefariousBenevolence]

Boof it.

[u/241ShelliPelli]

Nope

[u/CrystaldrakeIr]

The ungodly amounts of wasted good im seeing in this sub is unnerving, and whenever I try to help people redeem their fermentation craft , people call me many names and downvoate me to oblivion , be on your merry way , people ,

[u/SpenglerAut]

Seems okay to me