Jerky help
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I like a good beer brat, but has anyone ever used beer in marinade for whole muscle jerky?
Ridley Acres I like using whiskey
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Ridley Acres I like using whiskey
shakey69 said in Jerky help:
Ridley Acres I like using whiskey
If the meat gets whiskey, then I get whiskey too LOL!!!
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Attempt number 2 at jerky using marinade method. A couple things I learned why the first batch wasn’t very good:
My bottled water is 16.9 oz. not sure why I thought they were 8 oz, so my first attempt actually had 34 oz of water and 5 pounds of meat. I put all the meat in a gallon zip lock bag and filled it up with water to cover meat. I knew it didn’t seem right and it wasn’t.
This time I split it up into two vac bags, added 4 oz of water to each bag, and vac sealed it. When you lay the bag flat, the water covers the meat like the tutorial says. I guess I am a slow learner… but this batch now looks like I think it should while marinating instead of a bag full of mostly clear water. Going down to the steak competition tomorrow and will start smoking jerky when I get home. I am confident that this batch is going to be great.

Grimpuppy Do you flip the bags every couple of hours or does the vacuum sealing take care of that? I do mine in gallon ziplocks and squeeze air out, lay flat and flip every couple of hours.
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I flipped them. They were vac sealed with non chamber vac sealer, so it wasn’t super vac sealed. I just hit vac button and as soon as it started sucking liquid, I hit the manual seal button.
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Grimpuppy good looking batch.

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shakey69 said in Jerky help:
Ridley Acres I like using whiskey
If the meat gets whiskey, then I get whiskey too LOL!!!
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kyle That sounds like a fair deal.
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Let me grab my hooch and buttered popcorn, I’m in for the full show!
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Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
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Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
@dennyo said in Jerky help:
Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
I was asking myself the same question till the light finally came on. It’s a perforated tray. That’s the countertop underneath.
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@dennyo said in Jerky help:
Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
I was asking myself the same question till the light finally came on. It’s a perforated tray. That’s the countertop underneath.
processhead said in Jerky help:
@dennyo said in Jerky help:
Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
I was asking myself the same question till the light finally came on. It’s a perforated tray. That’s the countertop underneath.
You are correct.

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I use them because the slide right into the rack slots on my MB30.
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processhead, Grimpuppy Duh!! Great call coach!
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Man I feel do dumb. Thinking why would there be dots all over his food???
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@dennyo said in Jerky help:
Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
I was asking myself the same question till the light finally came on. It’s a perforated tray. That’s the countertop underneath.
processhead said in Jerky help:
@dennyo said in Jerky help:
Grimpuppy You had answered my question on how you vaced it but what is the mat with the white dots under the meat in the trays?
I was asking myself the same question till the light finally came on. It’s a perforated tray. That’s the countertop underneath.
You mean to tell me those were not Mentos?? LOL!
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I like to crush my mentos and blend with the spice mix

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Grimpuppy said in Jerky help:
I like to crush my mentos and blend with the spice mix

HAHAH!!! I think they would bring you more “fun” if you kept them whole and put some form of carbonated beverage instead of water/marinade. That nucleation process if fun but messy
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