[quote]GDollars37 wrote:
Oberto and Jack Links both suck. Pemmican is the Rolls Royce of big company beef jerky.[/quote]
I kinda have a taste for JL. I’m offended by your comment, and I hereby wage internet warfare on you. I’m in a mood, today. Naps are awesome.
Jack Links Jalapeno Beef Jerky, 80 grams a day. I love that shit.
[quote]nowakc wrote:
Yeah I tried oberto once and hated it as well.
I like the jack links chicken fajita jerky, it’s the only kind I buy anymore. Shit is chewable at least. All Jerky though I end up needing water nearby in order to eat it in a decent amount of time…otherwise I’ll have to chew the shit for years.[/quote]
Listen to this guy. That chicken fajita jerky from Jack Link’s is extremely awesome. The beef nuggets are pretty damned good, too.
There is a local butcher here that I love and they make their own jerky sticks.
Regular beef sticks are the best, followed by pepper and pepperoni.
Nice and chewy. I have no clue as to the nutritional content, but they are amazing. And expensive: $6 per pack of 8, 5" long sticks.
A couple of years ago back home I got this “fish jerky” stuff in some back road convenience store… dried salted fish… was really interesting. You’d think fish would fall apart but it was pretty chewy.
Some local buffalo jerky was the best I’ve ever had.
For those that make their own jerky, is it affordable? I like to keep jerky and cashews or almonds here at work for my afternoon snack. But the jerky is get is the Oberto crap. I’d love to make my own. I can get my hands on a dehydrator. Worth it?
[quote]dre wrote:
For those that make their own jerky, is it affordable? I like to keep jerky and cashews or almonds here at work for my afternoon snack. But the jerky is get is the Oberto crap. I’d love to make my own. I can get my hands on a dehydrator. Worth it?[/quote]
I have been making 1-2 lbs of various jerky every other day for the last month or so. if You are a hunter then it is definitely worth the money, my friend gives me Deer and Antelope meat for free, I also look for cheap meat on sale at the local grocery, I buy http://shop.himtnjerky.com/online/home.php?cat=248 for seasoning and it works very well they have like 10 or so different flavors.
1 pack of Jerky cure makes 15 lbs of jerky for $7.00 or so you can get good ground beef or lean steak for $2.50 per lbs to make jerky it cost $2.96 per lbs Vs. $5.50/$6.00 per lbs in the store.
It takes a little planning you need to cure the meat for at least 24 hours then depending on how chewy you want your jerky 6-24 hours in a dehydrator, you can use your conventional over if you like there are directions for that in the Cure Packet.
[quote]RyanBrown0311 wrote:
dre wrote:
For those that make their own jerky, is it affordable? I like to keep jerky and cashews or almonds here at work for my afternoon snack. But the jerky is get is the Oberto crap. I’d love to make my own. I can get my hands on a dehydrator. Worth it?
I have been making 1-2 lbs of various jerky every other day for the last month or so. if You are a hunter then it is definitely worth the money, my friend gives me Deer and Antelope meat for free, I also look for cheap meat on sale at the local grocery, I buy http://shop.himtnjerky.com/online/home.php?cat=248 for seasoning and it works very well they have like 10 or so different flavors.
1 pack of Jerky cure makes 15 lbs of jerky for $7.00 or so you can get good ground beef or lean steak for $2.50 per lbs to make jerky it cost $2.96 per lbs Vs. $5.50/$6.00 per lbs in the store.
It takes a little planning you need to cure the meat for at least 24 hours then depending on how chewy you want your jerky 6-24 hours in a dehydrator, you can use your conventional over if you like there are directions for that in the Cure Packet.
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Thanks for the info and link, I’ll look into that.
no better jerky than my dads deer jerky, period no contest, just stop the competition now, straight up from a deer he killed. Gotta love homemade stuff!
trader joes makes good jerky…you need have fangs to mess with most store brand stuff. i bought a dehydrator last year and haven’t looked back
I Australia jerky is not very popular (atleast where I live).
Recently I have been eating Jack Link’s jerky, but I have only found it in 50g packets and its expensive.
I have heard of kangaroo jerky and would love to try it but I havent found any.
I’m looking in to getting a dehydrator.
How much jerky would a pound of beef make?
It is always good to be friends with the hunters! deer jerky, elk jerky, moose jerky, buffalo jerky, wild turkey jerky…the list can go on forever. They are almost always good, some better than others. IME, buffalo is usually the best of the wild red meats.
I think flavor is largely dependent on what the animal has been eating. The deer that eat lots of grass are good, but the ones that eat a lot of sagebrush taste real gamey.
Best I’ve ever had has always been bought on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
My grandfather sends me homemade deer jerky.
My god its good. You suckers and your store bought shit.
[quote]Doyle wrote:
I Australia jerky is not very popular (atleast where I live).
Recently I have been eating Jack Link’s jerky, but I have only found it in 50g packets and its expensive.
I have heard of kangaroo jerky and would love to try it but I havent found any.
I’m looking in to getting a dehydrator.
How much jerky would a pound of beef make? [/quote]
Go ahead & laugh but I bought the Ronco Food Dehydrator almost 10 years ago when I was really into a meat diet (http://www.amazon.com/Ronco-Dehydrator-Yogurt-Maker-Machine/dp/B000059L4A) & I gotta say it worked amazingly well in making beef jerky… I would say that a few lbs. of beef becomes 1-2 lbs of jerky - it depends on how thin you slice your jerky…
Have you at least tried the South African classic, “biltong”?
That shit is fierce (salty as hell, but tasty) & apparently a bitch to bring over as a gift to Canada [my co-worker tried to bring some back for me and CDN Customs confiscated most of it :(]
See if you can find a US connect or friend that can buy you Jack Links’ jerky in bulk & ship it to you is AUS Customs is lenient about it…
Other than that, another foray into dried protein is dried cuttlefish (an acquired taste for some)
Most Asian supermarkets will carry this - It’s chewy, challenging but overall pretty flavourful somewhat like jerky - although the sodium content is waaaay up there.
Homemade deer jerky FTW. Coming in second, Pemmican.
For the record, you don’t need a dehydrator to make jerky. A box fan and some aluminum screen (like the kind on a screen door) works just fine. Just sandwich your slices of marinated beef (or venison or whatever) between two sheets of screen (If you’re working with multiple pounds of meat you may have to use multiple layers so the meat doesn’t overlap).
Set a box fan face down on top of the screen, duct tape the screen to the box fan, place screen and fan on top of some bricks to provide better airflow(you may want some newspaper under the bricks to catch any drippings), and then turn on the fan. 12 - 16 hours later you have jerky.
Hope this makes sense.
Ostrich jerky ftw.
[quote]altimus wrote:
Homemade deer jerky FTW. [/quote]
+1
tastes great, supports local hunters keeping deer from running in front of my car.
[quote]ctschneider wrote:
For the record, you don’t need a dehydrator to make jerky. A box fan and some aluminum screen (like the kind on a screen door) works just fine.
Just sandwich your slices of marinated beef (or venison or whatever) between two sheets of screen (If you’re working with multiple pounds of meat you may have to use multiple layers so the meat doesn’t overlap).
Set a box fan face down on top of the screen, duct tape the screen to the box fan, place screen and fan on top of some bricks to provide better airflow(you may want some newspaper under the bricks to catch any drippings), and then turn on the fan. 12 - 16 hours later you have jerky.
Hope this makes sense.[/quote]
Can you also dehydrate meat by putting it in a very low-heat oven for several hours? This works with fruit.