Beef Jerky Recipes?
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Mobile Chicane said:
No, but please post the instructions for making beef jerky.
It's actually dead easy, but to do a really good job it's a good idea to buy a dehydrator. I got ours from UK Juicers (http://www.ukjuicers.com/excalibur-5-tray-dehydrator-white) but I notice they seem to have gone up in price a lot since we got it. You can do it in the oven, but you need to have to be able to set it very low and leave the door open. The method I use is to buy a piece of lean beef - usually whatever's on special offer on the meat counter at Waitrose. Buy as much as you can afford as it shrinks a heck of a lot in the drying process. I aim for a couple of pounds in weight. Put it in the freezer for a couple of hours to make it easy to cut, then slice as thinly as possible, I aim for about 2mm but inevitably it gets a bit thicker towards the end when the meat's warmed up and it's harder to slice accurately. Make sure al the fat is cut off otherwise it will go rancid after a few days.
Then the meat needs to be marinated in the fridge for 24 hours. For the marinade, I generally start with about half a bottle of teriyaki marinade, into which I chuck about 12 crushed cloves of garlic, about an inch cube of ginger chopped fine, and a few red chillies finely chopped Lastly a good dollop of Lea and Perrin's. Mix it all up and layer in the beef, making sure it's all covered. I do mine in a plastic tupperware box.
To dry it, if you have a dehydrator than just lay the pieces out on the racks and follow the instructions on the box - mine usually takes about 6 hours at max. In an oven, you need to get the temp as low as possible and have to door partially open to ensure good air circulation. It's done when a piece of beef cracks when it's folded in half, but doesn't break.
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