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Gochujang is a thick, sweet, hot and savoury chilli paste. Glutinous rice is sweetened with barley malt, then mixed with chilli powder, powdered meju and salt and left in earthenware crocks for months, where Bacillus and salt-tolerant yeasts slowly build its umami. Made in 4 steps over 6.1 months – 2 years. The longest step, ferment in crocks in the sun, takes 6 months – 2 years (Jung S-J 2024). Salt is 8 % (Jung S-J 2024). Bacillus and Zygosaccharomyces rouxii do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourcePercentages of the whole mix in the traditional formula given by Jung and Shin 2024. Korea's Food Code requires at least 6 % chilli powder in anything sold as gochujang.
Barley malt (yeotgireum) and water · Malt soaked in water equal to about 5 % of the batch volume[jung2024]
Starter
meju powder (its Bacillus, moulds and enzymes) plus barley malt (amylase)
Total time across the recorded steps: 6.1 months – 2 years
Start
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What changes:Bacteria and moulds grow over the steamed bean and rice doughnuts
Step 1 of 4
Make the gochujang meju
Time
3–4 days
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Bacillus
Aspergillus
Bacillus dominant
B. subtilis
Zygosaccharomyces rouxii
Soybeans soaked about 3 h and rice about 6 h are ground, mixed and steamed for over 1.5 h before shaping. Output: gochujang meju powder.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
dry, then ground to powder
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Bacillus and Aspergillus grow on the steamed mash
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Doenjang is soybean paste, but gochujang is mostly starch, sugar and chilli, with meju only as starter and seasoning. Its sweetness comes from malt before fermentation starts. Factory gochujang uses pure-culture koji and tank fermentation instead of meju and crocks.
Chapssal (glutinous rice), mepssal (rice), bori (barley) and milgaru (wheat) gochujangthe starch used for sweetening
Sunchang gochujangthe best-known regional gochujang, from Sunchang in Jeollabuk-do
Factory gochujangpure-culture koji of wheat, barley or rice instead of meju; tank fermentation
Safety
Korea's Food Code limits Bacillus cereus in jang to 10,000 CFU per g. In a survey of 35 cottage-industry gochujang, 8 were above that limit, likely from raw materials or cross-contamination. The same products ranged pH 3.57–4.98, and 40 % were above pH 4.6, the line used for low-acid foods.
Hazards the sources name: Bacillus cereus (above 4 log CFU/g in 8 of 35 cottage-industry products).
When chilli reached Korea is debated. The usual view is the late 16th century, but some Korean scholars argue that a native pepper was grown much earlier. Codex adopted a worldwide gochujang standard at its 43rd session, building on a 2009 Asian regional standard.