How should I make some sweet jerky? I have a dehydrator and I want to experiment around with different homemade marinades, does anyone have experience making billtong? If so how would I make it at home on a budget?

Don't need anything fancy for biltong, though some people uses vac sealer and special game bags for it.

Come to the fur auction next Saturday and I'll go e ya a sample of .my jerky

you have a dehydrator which is more than you actually need

it isn't rocket science at all , lots of recopies out there , you can go as simple as soak your meat in a freezer zipper bag for a day in soy sauce and the seasoning of your choice , bbq , teriyaki if you want heat add red pepper flake

Biltong roll it in coarse salt and ground pepper and get on about drying it

you can do a sandwich baggies worth at a time to test the flavors you like write them down and you will have yours the way you like it.

How do I dry billtong?

Thanks for the offer sniper but I need to run my dog in some woods

watch videos on dried meat but basically all of it is shoot for >120 degrees and dry till you get your desired amount of dryness dryer you get longer it lasts

the food safety people will probably say 140-165 but people have been successfully drying meat for many centuries before they had that kind of heat requirement

most anything that will harm you will be killed by >120 for longer than 4 hours , and the dry makes a hostile environment for bacteria to grow , add in that you started by salting it to also make a hostile environment for stuff you don't want to grow.

you are sort of half pickling it then drying it


last year to prove it worked I made a dehydrator with a cookie sheet , cooling rack , cardboard box and I used a couple old arrows to lay my skewers across set that on my wood stove and by changing the opening at the top of the box I changed the internal temp to where I wanted it and was getting good convection drying from it.

My dehydrator can go as low as room temp, I’m goin to hang it in there. So I watched some videos and I see the salt rolling and I see they make their own meat rub, could I use a store bought meat rub? Do I have to soak the billtong in anything?

Lot of biltong made with a cardboard box and a light bulb....biltong is thicker and while dried it's not as hard as jerky...

Alrighty, I found some videos and stuff showing how long to dehydrate, thanks for the help and I will let ya know how it turns out

Well we will be there from 9 am to at least 5 pm lol

Store bought is fine, just watch the salt and other chemical additives

Alrighty, what are some good marinades for jerky? I’m going to make some ground deer jerky

Where is the fur auction?

Kidron

ground jerky is a heresy so youll have to find some heretics to do that.

For real jerky, a simple marinade of 5 oz cider vinegar, you can really use any kind of vinegar other than white if you want to get fancy, 5 oz worcestershire sauce, 5 oz soy and 2 oz liquid smoke. 12-24 hr soak time.

What’s a heresay and what’s a heretic

That 2 hour away from me, I don’t think I can make it

Heresy in this usage: dissent or deviation from a dominant theory, opinion, or practice
Heretic...one that does the heresy.

Isn't ground Jerky called pemmican?