Making jerky sticks

[Hello]

I bought a jerky gun today and learned that I need to go slower with it and be more consistent with my strips. 5 hours in the oven and using the cure + seasoning package plus 1.5 pounds of 93% lean ground beef...I have jerky. I'll be looking at other seasonings because what came with the jerky gun is okay, but sort of underwhelming. I couldn't find oven safe cooling racks so I bought two pizza sheet things. They worked well
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[phug]

Looks good. If you want thing easier, you can make each strip as long as possible on the pizza sheet and then cut them to length with kitchen shears after dehydrating them

 

[wallybangbang]

You all should check out the little and Big chief smokers, all electric with the wood chip pans in the bottom. They are awesome. I've been making jerky (mostly venison) and smoked salmon in them since I was a kid. Bout a 100$ at wallymart.

 

[Hello]

Looks good. If you want thing easier, you can make each strip as long as possible on the pizza sheet and then cut them to length with kitchen shears after dehydrating them

Did you just keep constantly pulling the trigger while moving across your dehydrator tray? At first I thought it was some straight shot, a single pull, but it's not. I am glad I use 1.5 pounds of meat though because the seasoning and cure package was just enough for my taste. Anything less may have been too much.

 

[phug]

Yup, just like laying a bead of caulk. You keep pulling the trigger and vary the pressure and the speed to get a uniform strip of jerky. Occasionally you have to let go an then resume pulling the trigger.

 

[Oldskewl]

You jerky looks good! They make different nozzles so that you can do double(i.e. 2 sticks at a time.) My biggest gripe with the jerkey cannon was stuffing the meat into that little cylinder and then of course cleaning it.

 

[phug]

I find it's easier to stuff if you roll the beef into little sausages before loading it into the tube. As for cleaning yeah that's a pain but if you can put it in the dishwasher it's not so bad.

 

[Oldskewl]

Ahh! I never thought about using the dishwasher.

 

[phug]

Just be careful if your jerky gun is plastic the tube on mine cracked once. Pbw would probably work wonders too

 

[KCBrewer]

I don't know if the others come apart the same way, but the LEM jerky canon is simple to clean. Everything disassembles and it comes with a brush to clean inside the tube.

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[KCBrewer]

I find it's easier to stuff if you roll the beef into little sausages before loading it into the tube. As for cleaning yeah that's a pain but if you can put it in the dishwasher it's not so bad.

+1 on rolling them into tubes. Roll out small logs slightly smaller than the tube diameter and drop a few of them in.

 

[8rnw8]

Sorry to resurrect a necro (truth be told I've brought older threads than this back while drinking and doing random searches...). I just got into making jerky, and have made 3 batches, one with top round, and two with ground beef.

The top round and first ground beef turned out great! Both were more traditional, soy, pepper, garlic, liquid smoke, etc. For the last batch I really wanted to try teriyaki. Mixed everything up, let sit in fridge for a day, loaded the jerky cannon, and dehydrated for 4 hours. It tastes like meatloaf. And not in a good way. You would swear I put ketchup in it. I'm baffled. Recipe was soy, powdered garlic, powdered ginger, powdered onion, teriyaki sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and pepper.

Anyone have any good teriyaki jerky recipes? Preferable for ground beef, but even for whole muscle would be welcome as I think I could adapt it fairly easily.

For that matter, ANY ground jerky recipes, would be appreciated.

 

[8rnw8]

Anyone?

 

[Oldskewl]

I prefer whole muscle jerky. These are the 3 recipes I prefer to use. When I make ground jerky, I use the LEM jerky seasonings.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/142948/docs-best-beef-jerky/

https://www.google.com/amp/www.food...asse/beef-jerky-recipe.amp.html?client=safari

https://www.google.com/amp/s/allrecipes.com/recipe/30795/t-birds-beef-jerky/amp/?client=safari

 

[8rnw8]

Thanks Oldskewl!

 

[Morrey]

I have an LEM Jerky Canon and I dehydrated a batch of ground venison jerky with the sample packet of jerky seasoning included last season. They also included a packet of "Snack Stick" seasoning that says to fill 19-21mm collagen casings with the seasoned meat and dehydrate.

Since I prefer the flat strips, would it be ok to use the snack stick seasoning pack and just use the mix that way? I think it would taste good although it may taste more like a Slim Jim than jerky???

 

[8rnw8]

Yeah, that's what I have been doing. I want to get away from the packets though, and try some recipes from people on here. I have the LEM cannon also.