Best Beef Jerky

[PatriotnMore]

So it's official, I make the best Beef Jerky I've ever had. My 600 watt dehydrator is perfect for making Jerky. The key is using good steak, prep of it, marinating, and finally the cuts and dry time.

I like mine in six inch long, 1/2 to 3/4" thickness, and moisture dried about 90%. The meat is dried at 160, until it's like a cooked steak on the inside, and Jerky on the outside.

I think I could sell it and make some $$ at the swap meet, but pricing could be an issue, having to use a high enough quality steak.

[Coded-Dude]

i want to get a dehydrator so bad! i have to go to the local meat butcher and buy their expensive buffalo jerky.....buts it is damn good.

[olhunter]

1/2 to 3/4" thickness...

Dang dude! That's just a dried out steak.

[AAShooter]

i want to get a dehydrator so bad! i have to go to the local meat butcher and buy their expensive buffalo jerky.....buts it is damn good.

Make it in your oven.

[Coded-Dude]

I've often contemplated that, but never really got around to trying it.

[PatriotnMore]

Dang dude! That's just a dried out steak.

There is a Jerky shop outside Bishop, on the way to Mammoth Mtn that makes what he called Chunk Jerky, that's where I first had it in that style, only his pieces were larger, and man it is good.

[llamatrnr]

I've used cherry wood chips for smoking quail and fish, and made great venison/elk/beef jerky after brining/marinating in apple juice (L'il Chief Smoker) GREAT!!

[whytea]

Once you start making your own, you'll never go back to store bought again. I started years ago on a cheap Ronco round job, and now I've got 2 Excalibur units. It's nice to be done with it in 12 hours or less.

I'll share one of my secrets; London Broil. Buy it when it's on sale at Stater Bros for $1.60 a pound or so, and have buy the entire slab before they cut it up. They will slice it for free to 1/8 an inch. I usually buy 60 or 70 pounds and freeze it to use throughout the year.

Don't try to sell it at the swap meet. Many health regulations to deal with.

[problemchild]

I use my smokin tex smoker oven to make jerky. I smoke the meat with applewood. I marinate the cheapest shoe leather meat you can buy for 2 days. The jerky comes out better than anything youve ever had and dang sure anything you can buy. You dont need to use steak.

[santacruzstefan]

I find the london broil on sale, and that works pretty good. I wish I had a smoker, though, since the meat tastes better as opposed to the dehydrator. There is this one place in Ohio, I think, that I ordered some jerky from one time. It was this little Polish meat shop, and man, did they have some amazing jerky. It was thick, spiced right, perhaps a quarter inch thick, and it hurt your jaw chewing it. I'm trying to replicate that.

[wrightb]

I don't eat the store bought stuff these days. I will, but nothing compares to homemade. Find a good habanero sauce to marinate it in with tons of red pepper flakes

[Mr. Burns]

I like Riley's Jerky. You can chew that stuff all day long. Haven't had much homemade stuff but what I have had was great.

[problemchild]

Ill post the recipe if I can find where my wife put it. I also have a killer recipe for smoked salmon.

[AAShooter]

Ill post the recipe if I can find where my wife put it. I also have a killer recipe for smoked salmon.

Please do . . . thanks.

[ZenDaddy]

If it is 3/4" thick and like a cooked steak inside, please eat it quickly and freeze what you don't eat. It is not jerky.

PC, I've told you before not to dangle that pic of salmon in front of my poor salivating hungry self... cruel and unusual I say