Marinade smells so good I could get a ladle and drink some. I’ve always marinated 24 hours but is there any benefit to going longer for a better flavor? And is that safe to do so? It’s been thawed already for a day in a vacuum sealed package. Any advice on that would be appreciated. I can’t wait! I’d make jerky outta the whole deer if I could

I have went as long as 48 hours, but honestly could tell any difference.

If you have one of the little vacuum sealers for jars? You can put the mix in half gallon jar and vacuum it down. That speeds the whole deal up and over night is more than plenty.
If you have it soak over night as is should be good. That is all I ever did before I had the vaccum sealer.

Mac

Mac I have the bags but not the jars.

I’ll prob just give it a few mixes during the 24 hours.
Has always worked fine before

Good to know. Tomorrow night will be earlier quitting time for me anyways so I can get it in the oven

I usually go 24 hours but have gone longer and didn’t notice a difference in flavor.

I can tell you that you don’t want to get greedy and try to reuse the marinade for the next batch. It just doesn’t work, imparts almost no flavor to the second batch. That’s a mistake I won’t make again. LOL

Your meat will only absorb so much marinade then it is done. It won't take much more once the initial draw is taken in.

I can about smell your picture. Be sure to give at least part of it a heavy coat of course ground black pepper when you get it all laid out. I like some cayenne pepper on mine too but it's easy to over do, use a light touch.

If you put the jerky and marinade in a vacuum sealable bag and remove the air with a vacuum sealer, you will get much better marinade penetration of the meat. Vacuum sealing with a marinade is a trick most good restaurants use on all marinated meat dishes. It works great for jerky making too.

Keith

I'll be putting a batch in the marinade tonight. Yours looks mighty good.

so, while we're on the subject...who's willing to share their marinade recipe?

Mine isn’t anything special but I’m always happy with it!

I don’t measure very well and tend to add more than what is recommended. And last year the guys recommended adding liquid smoke which I did

Sounds like we will both be snacking on the very best stuff!

thanks, Ashley!

Watch the bearded butchers YouTube video on whole deer made into jerky.

My mouth is watering looking at that pic!

I will thanks!

Thanks Keith I dug out the vacuum sealer and did what you said!

I will! I like coarse pepper so I will grind some

I had both hind quarters sliced into jerky strips.

waiting on CWD results before I proceed any further.

Looks awesome!!



This^^

The time given in recipes for brine is usually the time it takes for max absorption. Longer doesn’t add to or take away from flavor.

Aw man! You have a lot of that in your region?

it's definitely here.

personally, if it was just ME eating it...I probably wouldn't have had it tested. but my daughter LOVES my deer jerky, so...

I have left it too long before and it was way too salty. Just the way I like it.
You will need extra beer to warsh it down though.
One time a buddy of mine I had a big bowl of freshly shelled pecans, lots of deer jerky and some beer.
You eat the pecans until you get mealy mouthed, then you eat jerky until your TMJ gives out. TMJ is the abbreviation of temporal mandibular joint, and ironically, Too Much Jerky.
Then you drink a beer.
Warsh, Rinse, and repeat. Just make sure that you don't run out of beer first.
We ended up being fat, drunk and happy after that particular binge.

Carl I myself had suffered TMJ because I was grinding my teeth at night and eating too many Haribo gummy bears. Not fun! I drink enough beer now so I sleep soundly through the night

looks good so far, 24 hours is all I do

if you have empty trays in your dehydrator I always fill them up with liver i ran through the slicer when slicing g the jerkey meat. I have a 9 tray unit and prefer it full if im running it.

The dehydrated liver makes great dog treats and makes use of the liver if we dont eat it ourselves.

I put mine in the dehydrator today. I hope this batch lasts longer that the first batch I did last week. My grandson gobbled up a one gallon ziplock bag of it in three days. That one was venison and this one is beef made from top round.

i second this its a great watch. i havent done it yet but if we kill enough to turn a whole one into jerky we will be doing that this year.

also their buck bacon video is great my buck didnt have enough to try to make bacon lol.

Every time I scroll by this post I misread the title as "Jerry's in the drink" and think it's a post from Cathryn about Jerry falling into a river or something, lol.

Thats a fine looking machine you got there boss. I'm currently using my holding box I bought cheap at auction. Makes the wife happy I dont tie her oven up. I can turn this on kinda walk away. Been using it to finish my sausages and othe smoked things too.



Mac

I wrote the dang thing and I thought that too! Eyes are quicker than my brain

The dehydrator may be in the cards for me. I have the Lem oven rack and it does a pretty good job

Like Paul said the batches never last very long, everything on here is looking good.

Just pulled it out of the oven! Boy it smells good!

Is that crunchy on the outside?

they look good!

Just a bit. But tender inside. I honestly like the oven method.

Hey thank you!

I also read it that way.

Keith

My kids got this for me for Christmas a couple years ago. 12 or 13 trays. I can do a bunch of jerky at once. The batches still don’t last long once the realize I have ran one off.

Lots of trays and it makes great jerky, not as fancy or expensive as others but it works for me.

I do rotate the shelves throughout the process.

I bet it's really good. Hard to wait til its completely cool, but IMO its worth the wait.

You ever make corned deer, like corned beef Smash?

…. Get that crap out of here ADC…. Looks like you got it at toys r us

lol, it was next to the easy bake ovens.

I've got the same dehydrator, works really good for jerky and drying out mushrooms. That Texan must hang his jerky over the tumbleweeds in the desert.

….. you got to smoke jerky

ADC corned deer brisket is on my list!!!!

Smasho, yours looks mighty good.

Got mine finished. It'll only last a few days with the grandson coming here after school.

Looks yummy.

I don't smoke not even sure how you'd keep it lit.

Those look nice Paul!

It's easy but time consuming. Makes awesome rubens! Doesn't have to be the brisket. I use any big piece of deer, and I roughly follow this recipe.... https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/corned-beef-recipe-1947363

THANK YOU!!

Alton Brown's recipes never disappoint.... but I'm not as fancy as him so his calls for 8 whole cloves, 8 whole allspice berries, 12 whole juniper berries, 2 bay leaves, crumbled... I add "some" pickling spice for example. lol

Jerry’s in the drink? lol. I read the same from the title.

Poor Jerry. At this point he’s probably wondering what’s wrong with him. Love you Jerry and Cathryn!!! This post was not meant towards younz!!!

I read, "Jerry's in the drink", but I thought that it would be about him falling off the wagon.
Whether he fell in or got snockered, I sure hope he's doing better by now.
Maybe y'all should send him some jerky to pick up his spirits.

If he “picks up his spirits” doesn’t that mean he’s “in the drink” again????

No, no. It was not. lol…. I was acknowledging my lack of reading comprehension.

ADC, thank you for the recipe. Going to give it a try

How should I know?! You're the one started this post and aired poor Jerry's woes to the entire world.

I hope you like it. I've done it a few times and it always turns out great.

Well......glad I'm not the only one lol

I read it as jerry not jerky also. Didnt know I wasnt the only one.