Home Made Beef Jerky: Question for Experienced Jerky Makers

[Werewolf]

Just a question.......might you have accidently used garlic salt instead of powder? From your recipe, it doesn't seem like it would be very salty.

Nope...

No Garlic Salt permitted in the house because it is mostly salt.

Galic Powder, not granulated but the dusty stuff. I've found to maximize a garlic flavor that the powder is best. Granulated is a waste of money and fresh is good when you smoke or sautee whole cloves (don't wanna be around me on the day after I've eaten a bunch of fresh garlic sautee'd to a nice caramelized brown - a particularly unpleasant smell emanates from both ends )

I believe the source of the salty taste came from the teryiaki. Totally dried and all liquid removed the little salt it has comes out.

Now after almost a day of sitting in the fridge one can barely taste the salt.

 

[dennishoddy]

I've made jerky in a dehydrator and a smoker and never boiled it.
Marinate it all night the day before in whatever you want, then throw it into the dry heat. You'll know when it's done. It's not half as difficult as some make it out to be.

And when does jerky stay ever around long enough to go bad?

I've made hundreds of pounds of jerkey, and this is gospel.

some like it dry and crunchy, some like it soft and tough to chew.

I use salt and vinegar based marinades and have never had a problem except fighting off the kids and wife.

 

[elwoodtrix]

Larry's Meats in Union City...

 

[-Maximus-]

I prefer a smokehouse myself. I guess not everyone has access to 20 of those...lol

 

[BadgeBunny]

Personally, I think you retain more of the meat flavour with a dry cure where marinated tends to just take on the flavour of the marinade.

Dont get me wrong, I like both.

LOL ... you remind me of that saying ... even the worst sex you ever had was still good sex ...

 

[-Maximus-]

I've made hundreds of pounds

Me too!...Almost daily for years! I am in the 10,000+ pound club. I bet I have eaten in the hundreds.

 

[Shadowrider]

Me too!...Almost daily for years! I am in the 10,000+ pound club. I bet I have eaten in the hundreds.

I think this guy knows what he talking about here! Robertson's is some fine jerky. So is "No Man's Land" but I ain't seen any this side of Seiling.

 

[Jefpainthorse]

Folks... everybody knows Jerky comes from the Metcalf Gunshows......


Some people!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I think this guy knows what he talking about here! Robertson's is some fine jerky. So is "No Man's Land" but I ain't seen any this side of Seiling.

Weatherford, Binger, Clinton.... Do you make it out this way anymore?

 

[-Maximus-]

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