Red Mosquito

Any of you made jerky before? I bought a couple nice eye of rounds at Costco today and am going to make up some marinades. I have a Traeger smoker, but also a dehydrator, and can't really find if one's better than the other, so I'm going to try both methods and compare. I figure if the dehydrator wins on tenderness, I can always add some liquid smoke to the marinade going forward.

I'm not a big jerky guy. But I hope this goes well for you.

Brad Leone made a video on this

godspeed, meatwad

jerkwad

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

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MW, here's my technique. I hope it helps:

Whisk Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, paprika, honey, black pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, and onion powder together in a bowl.
Preheat oven to 175 degrees F (80 degrees C).
Transfer beef to paper towels to dry.
Bake beef in the preheated oven until dry and leathery, 3 to 4 hours.

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

washing machine wrote:jerkwad

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that’s not saying much

gotta have the paprika

send me all your jerky

So all in all it came out pretty good. I made a few different marinades and did all of it in the dehydrator, which worked well. I have some marinated strips left that I'm going to do on the smoker to compare. Reid I'll give your marinade a shot on the next round. I did one batch with the packets that came with the dehydrator, and that definitely tastes the most like store-bought beef jerky, but it's pretty salty. Another batch was a mixture of sambal oelek and Yoshida's, one was soy/worcestershire with roasted garlic pepper and red pepper flakes, and the one I haven't done yet was my spicy Mexican style, which was basically a mixture of taco sauce and Tapatio.

Interesting. Do you have photos?

Anders wrote:Interesting. Do you have photos?

No but it looked like beef jerky.

meatwad wrote:

Anders wrote:Interesting. Do you have photos?

No but it looked like beef jerky.

done a couple batches recently.

1 cup soy sauce
2 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp Worcestershire
2 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp chili flakes
2 tsp onion powder
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp black pepper

2 hrs 170 on the electric smoker


next batch will likely be Dr Pepper Jalapeno

2 c. Dr. Pepper
2 Jalapenos, sliced
1 Tbs. Worcestershire Sauce
2 Tbs. Kosher Salt
2 tsp. Black Pepper
1 tsp. Garlic Powder
1 tsp. Onion Powder

That sounds delicious

So I'm making the marinade reduction right now, substituted a thin sliced habanero for the jalapenos...lol, the fumes are making my head sweat as it boils....FML...

Hope you wore gloves