First Jerky

[SmokinSignals]

Bought some very thin sliced beef from the market and decided to give the jerky a test run before hunting season comes around.  Wanted to try and pick a favorite flavor and try to perfect the recipe for game meat.

Slicing the meat into strips

Pat dried before cure was added. I used the Hi Mountain variety pack which has 5 flavors.  We only used 3 for this test.....cracked pepper and garlic, cajun, and hickory.

Cured for 24 hours and decided to cold smoke the jerky for 2 hours along with some homemade mozzarella cheese. After the cold smoke, we removed the cheese and brought the smoker oven online.

Jerky turned out tasty, but not magical.  I liked the cracked pepper the best, but will give it a couple days to really get the flavor soaked in.

[classicrockgriller]

Well it looks good.

Now you get to eat what you made and try it again with adjustments.

The adventure has just begun.

[mikecorn.1]

Looks good


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[SiFumar]

Looks tasty!

[bundy]

Looks really good, those skinny strips.