How To make you Own Jerky

How to Make Beef Jerky

For Many years throughout history people have made beef jerky for food and storage and necessity. Many new methods have been developed such as freezing chemicals etc.

People still like the flavor and ease of beef jerky which is mostly made from beef but has been recently added to by other flavours such as camel.

Because when making jerky all the fat and moisture has to be removed, jerky is in general a very good source of protein. Unfortunately many times these great benefits are offset by the chemicals added by some companies.

For Making your own healthy jerky follow these steps

1. Select your meat, lean beef is best it will save you time, scotch, round, sirloin.
2. Slice your beef in strips less than 3.2 mm thick (1/8 ich)
3. If you want to make slicing easy partly freeze your meat
4. Make sure you trim all the fat because this does not freeze and can turn bad.
5. Use a marinade made from vinegar and sea salt (use ingredients of your choice) and put in your fridge for 6-23 hours allow the meat to absorb the flavours.
6. Coat the meat with seasoning of your choice (sometimes this does make the jerky sticky) please experiment
7. Dehydrate the meat by leaving gaps between the slices for air flow. In dehydrators use non stick spray on the racks. In an oven set it at 70 c allowing preheating. In the oven its not meant to cook only get rid of the fluid by evaporation.
8. The next step is watching most times this take 7 to 13 hours, check your jerky regularly until its consistency is what you are looking for.
9. Put your jerky in bags and store in either a fridge or a freezer until you need it.

Eat home made jerky in one week of preparation for best results. Making beef jerky can be fun, but today you can get factory made jerky with no preservatives so remeber tis before making your own beef jerky.