Re: Homemade Beef Jerky Question
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:32 pm
How to make jerky:
Go to the meat market and ask for lean meat to make jerky. They will sell you the leanest cut, throw it in their freezer, slice it nice and thin along the grain. You come back a few hours later and pick up your prepped sliced meat, no extra charge. Take it home, marinate as you like, and dry it. I used a borrowed Excalibur dehydrator.
The end result was jerky without tons of preservatives, and seasoned with exactly what I wanted. I hate tough overseasoned crap that's barely chewable - I don't eat tons of jerky in the first place. Mine was still chewy but nowhere near as board-like as the stuff we brought home from Costco.
Go to the meat market and ask for lean meat to make jerky. They will sell you the leanest cut, throw it in their freezer, slice it nice and thin along the grain. You come back a few hours later and pick up your prepped sliced meat, no extra charge. Take it home, marinate as you like, and dry it. I used a borrowed Excalibur dehydrator.
The end result was jerky without tons of preservatives, and seasoned with exactly what I wanted. I hate tough overseasoned crap that's barely chewable - I don't eat tons of jerky in the first place. Mine was still chewy but nowhere near as board-like as the stuff we brought home from Costco.