What can I do with failed soy sauce?

[borad]

I've made a batch but I mixed the beans with a blender didn't throw away the water and just mixed in the flour with koji kin. It was very wet and I kept the lid of the pot on, so it had no aeration. It had some white mold on top and it smells like really really bad feet. From what I read koji needs to smell pleasant (when made with rice). But I'm assuming I can't use this for soy sauce anymore. It doesn't smell foul more like really smelly cheese. Can I maybe make something else out of it?

[KennethT]

I can't answer your question, but I did want to say that I'm impressed that you tried to make your own soy sauce...  it reminds me of when I was young and reading the Time Life series of international cuisine books and saw a description for SE Asian fish sauce.  Never seeing it in a store before (that stuff wasn't readily available back then), I tried to make it and it wound up being a horribly spectacularly smelling failure.

[Toliver]

When in doubt, throw it out. 

I was able to find this ancient eGullet discussion about making your own soy sauce:

"Making Soy Sauce At Home"

You may find some answers/resources in it.

[pastrygirl]

6 hours ago, KennethT said:

.  it reminds me of when I was young and reading the Time Life series of international cuisine books and saw a description for SE Asian fish sauce.  Never seeing it in a store before (that stuff wasn't readily available back then), I tried to make it and it wound up being a horribly spectacularly smelling failure.

 

I like fish sauce, but can’t imagine it smelling very good at any step of the way   Likewise, I wonder if the soy sauce just went through an awkward phase, maybe it’s funky before it’s done but then it mellows out?

[borad]

I have no idea I'll keep it for now and if it starts to move around I'll burn it

[KennethT]

@pastrygirl Ha!  One of these vacations, we're going to go to southern Vietnam - and spend a little time on Phu Quoc - a small island that while it is beautiful, is very well known for having several large fish sauce making facilities.  They say you can smell them for miles!

[Tri2Cook]

I've never tried to make soy sauce... but if I did, I think mold-encrusted "really really bad feet" would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of where I would drop out. 

[helenjp]

Just went to a soy sauce factory a few weeks back...they had "sniff pots" for various stages of the fermentation process. It smelt like miso, and also a bit like fermenting malt beer at first. So definitely more bread, beer, booze and less like feet...