Beef Jerky Made by you

Article and recipe by Louise Servage

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.

When making jerky all the fat and moisture must be removed, jerky is in general a very good source of energy. Some times these benefits are offset by the many chemicals added by some jerky businesses.

Here’s some information on making your own

1. Select your meat, lean beef is best it will save you time, scotch, round, sirloin.

2. Cut your beef into 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. Coatting the meat with flavouring of your choice ( unfortuneately sometimes this does make it sticky) try different things and see which results you like.

7. You Dehydrate meat by having gaps between the slices to promote air flow. If using dehydrators use spray on the racks to make them non stick. Set ovens at 70 c allow preheating. Meat isn’t meant to cook it is simply in there to dry out.

8. You need to now keep your eye on the jerky to be to make sure that you get the required consistency.

9. Put your jerky in bags and store in either a fridge or a freezer until you need it.

For best results eat your home made jerky within one week. But don’t forget you can save some time because there are some companies that use traditional methods to produce their jerky.

Author Louise Servage writes for (http://www.beefjerkyoriginal.com/) beef jerky original a business that is absolutely dedicated to one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century (http://www.beefjerkyoriginal.com/) beef jerky the our most popular snack.

Did your grandmother have any recipes like this one?

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