I LOVE beef jerky!

However, REAL jerky is not make in an oven, or with heat for that matter. Or so I am told. I guess that the best way to make jerky doesn't take an oven, or a smoker, or a dehydrator, but a 20" x 20" box fan, three cheap paper air filters (20" x 20") and some bungee cords to hold it all together. The massive airflow dries the meat without cooking it.

I bought a 20" box fan this past summer specifically with this idea in mind, and have yet to use it.

It was something that Alton Brown from the Food Network did, and of course during the show, he explained all of the reasons for it.

Search for "Alton Brown" "Box Fan Jerky" or something similar and you will find it or click here:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/beef-jerky-recipe/index.html

Here is a link with pictures, but they didn't get the right filters. The cheap paper ones allow for the meat to site in the accordion like groves...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Box-Fan-Jerky/

Yet another (and the last) link with some pictures of it done right in the filters...

http://annarbor.albertelli.com:85/weblog/?p=86

Farewell - June 4, 2020