I used to make a lot of deer jerky but it’s been several years and I can’t find my marinade recipe. What are everyone’s favorite marinades or spices. I plan on making both sliced and ground jerky. Thanks in advance.

Equal parts Wild turkey 101 and turpentine

This us one I've used before, pretty good.

This is one my uncle used for years.

My marinade is
5 oz worchesterchire sauce
5 oz soy sauce
5 oz cider vinegar
2 oz liquid smoke

Put marinade in a gallon freezer bag with the sliced meat. Treats 2#. Place in fridge 12-24 hrs. Flip the bag every few hours.

When its time to smoke/dehydrate add your favorite rub. Preferably one that doesnt have a lot of salt as the marinade has plenty.

REO spices sells a jerkey seasoning that I and everyone I know loves and uses. I make 40-50 lbs of jerky a year. That’s raw weight of coarse.

https://www.spicenslice.com/products

Always came back to this one. AND, he employs a lot of disabled people.

I use Hi mountain jerky cure and it works great, add what you like with it and go. When I do make some I do 30lbs at a time and get it done in a day.

Another vote for Hi mountain here. Lot less mess than all the liquid marinades and turns out a great final product. I make tons of goose jerky every year with it. Cracked pepper and garlic is my favorite but inferno is a crowd pleaser too

Agree hi mountain is hard to beat. I do deer, snow geese, Canada geese with hi mountain cracked pepper and garlic.

I start with soy

4 parts soy to 1 part worstishire sauce then red pepper flake to your level of spicy and a dab of liquid smoke

marinade in a zipper bag in a bowl air squeeed out

then dehidrator

you can add onion and garlic powder also or most any other ground spice you like

but that is a good base to start with

cant go wrong with hi mountain i like most of their flavors. pepper garlic being a house favorite.

4# deer - I use ground

1/2 C Soy Sauce
1/2 C Worcestershire Sauce
2 TBSP Liquid Smoke
2 TBSP Seasoning Salt
2 TBSP onion powder
2 tsp Spice Time BBQ seasoning - Walmart carries it
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp black pepper

Use a cup of good Brandy for taste and just drink Savell's 101 Turkey!

Seems like with that volume of meat, that's akin to adding dressing to a big bowl of salad. Then again maybe it's black magik that works for the sacrilege of ground jerky

Might be a sacrilege but you get a lot more jerky with ground. Think of the scraps.
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No, it's got plenty of flavor. I don't get any complaints. Both of my son's were Marines. When a package came from home, they had plenty of friends.

I like ground for the simple fact that all the seasoning is in the meat.

Here is the recipe I used for last batch I made. Not sure where I got this recipe?? Probably from someone here on trapperman being wrote down not printed out.
I do make variations of this. Mostly I left out a lot of the red pepper as my family is not into the really hot.
But I also switch out brown sugar with my homemade maple syrup. Just Worcestershire or just Soy or both. Way I look at it when changing things around. Don't really ruin it just makes it different. If I like something I do it again. If I don't like something much I just don't make it again.
My son and his buddies can handle hot. So last time I made 3 different batches all different amounts of pepper.
The boy got the hottest.
I did this recipe last time with liquid smoke. Then just dried it in my warming oven. You can leave out the liquid smoke or not and dry it in the smoker if you have one. I have done it that way too.



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Thanks very much guys.

I can see that I need to add some vinegar to my soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, liquid smoke, yada, yada, yada recipe.
Kindly like what's in Carolina hog sauce for BBQin.