The Complete Guide to Making Beef Jerky at Home

***Correction: if using pink curing salt use 1 teaspoon per 5lbs of meat (not 1lb). Thanks @mikesmicroshop4385 for pointing this out!

I really appreciate how honest and transparent he tries to be

Was just telling my girlfriend I wanted to try making my own beef jerky. Could have easily followed any other type of video like this: but then you dropped this video and man, I’m thankful you did! I’ll definitely try out the oven method first before buying a dehydrator

Hi guys I just want share my experience on this exact recipe so you don't make the same mistakes I did, I attempted this recipe the day before last and let it marinate for 24 hours, before drying I laid the marinated meat on a paper towel and patted it dry and left a couple with the marinate onto see if it makes a difference, furthermore I seasoned some of the meat before dehydrating it at 65c for 5 and a half hours and what I learned. 1. There is no need for the additional seasoning and in fact it made it unbearable to eat. 2. Patting them dry produced a similar if not better tasting product because the marinate was able to penetrate the meat and the wet ones were just too slimy feeling for my taste. 3. I'm sensitive to honey so I thought I'd use date honey but that was unfortunately the wrong move to make because it ended up being the only thing you can taste I couldn't even taste the meat so next time I'll stick with the brown sugar. 4. although I think the fact that I used date honey was entirely my fault I still think that the 15-20% sweetness estimate is way too high and I felt that I got nothing but sweet flavours which was a bit disappointing so next time I'm hopefully going for a more conservative 8-10%.

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I’ve been making jerky for about 15 years and learned something new. I could never put my finger on how the store bought jerky always had that extra moisture to it. Now I know they have a high humidity drying process. I also hate that style😂 I literally can’t eat any other jerky than my own because I’m obsessed with how mine comes out. I felt the nostalgia when he pulled out his first ever dehydrator. Mines been going strong for 15 years.

I completely forgot about the experimental taste test at the end 😂, almost went to watch another video. Very educational, and I almost forgot about the bit of fun thrown in. Gotta give it to Max to always make his video's interesting, The meat side of youtube is always the best 💯

Its really nice to see such a large creator being so active with his community in the comments. Some people have less than one third the subs and dont give superlikes or reply to any comments.

Going broke buying all these beef jerkies. Recently added dried meat into my lifestyle for a better eating, real food healthy eating lifestyle. Was thinking about learning to make my own jerkies and boy was i glad i clicked on this video. I thought it was going to be a long sophisticated, constant monitoring type of process but you definitely made it easy to follow and explained it step by step so thoroughly. Thank you my guy! Will definitely support purchasing some jerkies from you as well until i get the ball rolling. Much love.

Fantastic guide on how to make jerky!! Gotta try it when i have the time!! Been watching this channel for a long time and there is always soo much to learn!!!! keep up the good work!!!

Can we please get a series of these videos. They are my favorite!

Lots of good info packed into this video! Thanks, Max!

i live somewhere i cant get max jerky but i really wanted to try it. Thank you for this. Really appreciated.

Thank you so much Max. Loved this instructional style content

You are the best, You’ve come so far. Great Job!

im gonna try it!!! thankz for the breakdown!! love the vid 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😊😊

My recepe for jerky (any jerky): Use whatever mid-grade meat your butcher has on hand(it's normally cheaper and faster to get it non-pre cut). Take the jerky and slice it into 1/7th-In, now let it get to room temperature. For a marinade I use 2shots JackDaniel's, .5shot of 80Prof Vodka, and 3Cups of beer per .5lbs of jerky you're making. Now let it rest over night. Now, in the morning, after letting it sit, take it out and prepare to boil it (1min/.5Lbs of meat). For the boil use 1cup of Viniger, 1table-spoon of whatever salt of your liking, 2Litres of water, 1shot Molasses, and 2table-spoons of whatever sugar of your liking. Use this mix and double it per every 1lbs of meat. After boiling smoke it high and fast for half an hour, after let it cool 1min/1lbs of meat, after go low and slow for 1hour. After smoking dry it out. Now enjoy.

I typically smoke my Jerky for a few hours until the surface is dry, then finish in my dehydrator. It makes the cleanup MUCH easier since you don’t have marinade baked onto the Excalibur mesh sheets. Very interesting on the moist dehydrating at the factory - I may have to try spraying my jerky while it smokes with apple cider or something along those lines for a similar effect!

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