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The guts of sea fish are pressed empty, washed, mixed with salt and left in closed earthen jars in the sun for 10 to 20 days. They ferment into a salty, red-brown, semi-solid paste that is the base of the southern Thai curry gaeng tai pla. Made in 4 steps over 12 months – 13 months. The longest step, finished paste, takes up to 12 months (JIRCAS 1995). Salt is 9.1–16.7 % (JIRCAS 1995). Pediococcus halophilus (now Tetragenococcus halophilus) and other Pediococcus and Lactobacillus do most of the fermenting.
Total time across the recorded steps: 12 months – 13 months
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What changes:The fish guts are squeezed empty and washed
Step 1 of 4
Press out the gut contents and wash
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Bacillus break
Pediococcus halophilus
Pediococcus
Lactobacillus
Output: cleaned viscera.
Flavour
left unpressed, the guts give a bitter paste, which some places prefer
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
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
Tai-plaa uses only the guts, not the flesh. That makes it fattier and quicker to ferment (10 to 20 days in the sun) than whole-fish pastes like pla ra, and it goes rancid sooner.
Bitter tai-plaaThe gut contents are left in, which makes the paste bitter; some places prefer it.
Safety
The FDA notes that histamine can form while fish is salted and fermented, until the product is shelf-stable, and it uses 50 ppm as its guidance level; illness usually involves more than 200 ppm. In 30 southern Thai fermented seafood samples, most of them tai-pla, histamine measured 35–41 ppm by one kit, with one tai-pla sample in the 75–100 ppm band by test strip. Viscera carry many gut bacteria, so start from fresh fish, keep the salt up and cook the paste.
Hazards the sources name: Staphylococcus aureus; Histamine-forming bacteria (27 isolates from southern Thai fermented seafood, most of the samples tai-pla).