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.