Audit hold: The former home fermentation procedure and its variations are withdrawn pending a complete process review. Do not prepare, taste, serve or consume a batch using those directions. This page supplies no operative ingredient amounts, fermentation steps, serving dose, bottling schedule or active Recipe output for the held procedure.
What the Review Found
The old half-gallon jar could not contain its starting water plus a whole pineapple, sugar and headspace. Its wash instructions contradicted prose recommending unwashed fruit. Daily stirring was incorrectly presented as mold prevention, and a surface film was cleared by appearance. Time and tanginess supplied no acidity endpoint. The ginger, orange-juice dilution, lower-sugar/honey, canned-fruit/starter and repeat-batch ideas lacked complete processes.
Allrecipes’ accessible original tepache page supplies a culinary comparison and explicitly warns that bottled fermentation can continue and cause explosions. Its printed yield cannot establish the old TFA yield. The former fixed alcohol estimate, shortened-fermentation alcohol-free shortcut and periodic bottle-burping schedule do not establish alcohol or pressure control. An authentic published drink formula is useful culinary evidence, but this source does not resolve the local endpoint and bottle-control gaps. The old directions are therefore held rather than transplanted into it.
What Must Be Resolved
A complete source-specific process must settle ingredient and starter identity, actual vessel capacity and yield, time/temperature controls, contamination and acidity endpoints, alcohol expectations, pressure handling and final storage before this local recipe can be restored. Flavor, visible bubbles, a normal smell or a calendar alone cannot clear an unresolved ferment. Cold storage slows microbial activity; it is not a universal stop switch.
Review Boundary
This hold concerns the former TFA instructions. It does not withdraw the culinary tradition or require clinical testing of ordinary food flavor variations. The sources below are evidence for the comparison and unresolved controls, not substitute directions to combine with the old recipe. No probiotic, digestive, mineral, immune or treatment benefit is established for this batch. No kitchen, acidity, alcohol, pressure, microbial, clinical or shelf-life testing was performed.
