Home Made Jerky

[Joe Newton]

This is the one we have.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232000149348

 

 

Looks decent enough. Where did your Mrs order it from?

[Peter]

eBay or Amazon she says.

[donnk]

Hows the cold smoking work what do you use?

 

made one, he steel tube on side is filled with sawdust and lit. then an aquarium pump uses the venturi effect to drag the smoke into the smoker. works great.

 

Use it mostly for bacon and fish.

 

[headgroundsman]

I have been dry curing hams and bacon for a couple of years now. Its great stuff and the bacon is just like old times, no shrinkage! I have cure a goose breast last year and sliced it super thin. It ended up a bit like parma ham just a bit stronger. I might get one of these dehydrators they look good. Any advice on smoking would be good!

[Peter]

Easiest way of cold smoking by far is a pro q smoke generator. You can even smoke in a cardboard box.

[John Shutler]

Dehydrators are pretty cheap, about £50

Usually I make it out of venison, sometimes mutton and rarely beef, I tend to use what ever I've got in abundance at the time so if I've knocked a deer over or one of our sheep it makes sense to use that instead of buying beef

 

Tend to make a marinade of soy, sweet chilli sauce, garlic, ginger(ground) couple of bay leaves and whole grain mustard which works pretty well

 

Cured duck breasts are pretty easy, 24 hours in salt then hang for two weeks

[ArthurBottlesworth]

This is what I've been doing

Pretty easy

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/may/13/how-make-bresaola-in-pictures

[rovers90]

I love the idea of doing air dried ham, etc but think it is best cut really thin, like on a meat slicer. When I've bought lumps of parma ham I can never get it thin thin and I dont think its the same when its thicker.

 

I keep looking at meat slicers in auctions but haven't got space for one!

[Lazurus]

Did my first batch today, from brisket 3 hours on very low oven...... Bloody lovely.

[John Shutler]

My latest batch