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Any beef jerky connoisseurs?
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Ok, my dad said he used to know a guy that had a great recipe for home made beef jerky, and used his standard kitchen oven. I was thinking you needed special equipment.

Anybody have a killer recipe/instructions I can follow without having to purchase extra equipment?>


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SirQuack #228969 11/08/08 05:14 AM
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Let me check with my wife and her mother. They do it all the time.


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Ken.C #228971 11/08/08 05:21 AM
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Cool, thanks Ken. I have found a few websites that say it is pretty simple. We get all of our meat free from the inlaws farm, so only the best. \:\)


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SirQuack #228972 11/08/08 05:25 AM
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It'll probably be a day or so. My in laws don't check their email very often.


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Ken.C #228973 11/08/08 05:31 AM
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ha ha, I can relate.


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SirQuack #228977 11/08/08 06:31 AM
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I made some a few years ago. Its pretty simple, cut your meat into 1/8" strips and marinade over night. Move the top rack towards the top of the oven and hang your strips. Don't forget to put a pan on the bottom rack for drips. Turn the oven onto the lowest setting, let it go for 8-10 hours.

I cant remember the proper temperature, but I remember leaving my oven door open a crack to get it low enough.


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Using a smoker results in much MUCH better jerky than the oven method. Full sliced meat is the best of course, but the ground meat recipes actually aren't all that bad.

And for deer... the big muscles of the rear haunches makes awesome jerky.

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BrenR #229000 11/08/08 01:02 PM
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Not to mention - using a smoker keeps your whole house from smelling like jerky for a week. (the downside is that every dog in the neighborhood will be trying to dig a hole under your fence while the jerky is smoking) ;\)


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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


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