My pepper sauce looks unsafe

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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

Welcome to the site. How did you can this, and why is it in the fridge afterwards? Can you please edit and add details on your canning method? — GdD, Jul 06 '20 at 07:57
Can you link to the recipe you followed? That will make it much easier to figure out what might have gone wrong. — David Schwartz, Jul 07 '20 at 18:48
The blobs of cloudy material stuck to the peppers are likely congealed olive oil. — Wayfaring Stranger, Jul 07 '20 at 23:06

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '20 at 20:58

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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.

answered Jul 05 '20 at 20:58

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If it's peppers & green tomatoes, he would have had to pressure can it to sterilize it. – FuzzyChef Jul 06 '20 at 05:49
@FuzzyChef - yes, still could have got that wrong. Fungal spores are pretty hard to kill, as I am sure you know unless you get temperature, pressure and time above the right values things might not be sterile! – bob1 Jul 06 '20 at 08:52

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '20 at 21:15

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Contamination is also likely if you placed hot or warm food in the fridge. Was the canned sauce room temperature?

answered Jul 07 '20 at 21:15

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