beef jerky

[shot shot]

OK, so I'm sitting here with a packet of beef jerky that I blew 2.69 on, and have decided that I have to try making it myself. Now I've done a search on here, and there is a recipe for it, but I need a recommendation on what cut of meat to buy, it needs to be cheap to keep the cost down. So lets have it lads, your cut of choice!

 

 

thanks in advance

Edited April 14, 2010 by shot shot

[vole]

Have no idea how to do Jerky but I have just scoffed the last of a batch I got quite cheaply off Ebay. The American stuff would be hard to imitate but I bet its African counterpart,Biltong,would be do able.

[jollysp2]

Try HERE i've been meaning to make some for a while as like you sick of wasting money on such a small amount!!!

[mikee]

i worked with a south african guy a couple of years ago and he made his own biltong, it was delicious, he used the leanest cuts of meat he could get as the fat is not so nice, he marinated it in a tub of what ever herbs and spices he used for a while then cut it into very thin strips and dried them on a rack over a radiator in his house, it was superb, i think he said it was topside of beef, but i reckon venison loin would be great as absolutely fat free when cleaned up.

 

try this

 

http://www.biltongbox.com/shop/index.php?a...mp;productId=17

 

mike

[jollysp2]

BILTONG VID

[Lampwick]

You can have my old leather shoes if you like they will probably taste as nice as the dried stuff your gonna make!

 

Good luck with it, i do like to see somebody making a go of self sufficiency!

[CZ550Kevlar]

I go to my local butchers and pickup offcuts and ends of Rump from him for not alot of money then take it home add some soya sauce, garlic granules, onion granules and worcester sauce leave for a few hours then put it in my dehydrator and 8 hours later perfect melt in your mouth jerky.

[henry d]

I`ve tried goose, an old bu993r that would have been tough. Marinated in vinegar then corriander and cumin dry roasted and ground as a rub and into the fan oven at @ 50"C for as long as it took the strips to dry V tasty and would work with pigeon/hare/venison.

 

I believe that a wooden box with a 40 watt bulb set up inside works well too. Try THESE GUYS !

[Beardo]

there are some good threads on this already if you do a search

[flexouk]

I used some beef steak from tesco of all places. It worked well for the first go (not to expensive whilst playing with flavours, etc.) Just so long as its about the right thickness I wouldn't be to worried at the start. I've now built a drying box using a lightbulb inside of it and hanging hooks made of paper clips! I get the rump off-cuts from my local butcher.

[Beardo]

Westfalia are doing an offer on food dehydrators at the mo...

click here

[holly]

pigeon jerky is good