In mid-September peppers were in full swing at the local farmers market. I purchased a dozen ghost peppers, and two large red bells. Time to make fresh hot pepper sauce with four easy steps: Chop. Salt. Pack. Wait.
(Chop & Salt) I removed the stems and whirled in a Cuisinart until thoroughly blended, and then added a pinch of salt toward the end.
(Pack) I poured the slurry into a quart jar and covered with fly-deterrent cloth (not shown). As soon as the ferment gets going, the solids float and get pushed up by the CO2 production.
Stir twice a day to submerge the solids and to prevent mold from forming on the surface of the ferment. If it does (see below), stir it in and stir more frequently. The mold is harmless, but can impart a flavor I find distasteful. So, keep stirring.
(Wait) After two weeks, I transferred the sauce to a jar with an airlock. No more oxygen means no more mold forming on top. (And no more stirring.) The sauce keeps fermenting with the airlock and it’s pH lowering. It’s normal for there to be continued separation of solids, top and bottom, and clear liquid in the middle. 
After 6 weeks from step one, I filtered the sauce through cheesecloth to remove the seeds and then added vinegar to stabilize (meaning, the pH drops even more from the acetic acid and the sauce won’t mold on top if left out of the refrigerator).
My yield was 14 ounces of ferment, and i added 6 oz. of vinegar for a total of 20 oz. of fermented hot pepper sauce.
