Do you have to cook the beef to make beef jerky?
June 23rd, 2012
Question by rosrucerp: Do you have to cook the beef to make beef jerky?
I got a food dehydrator for christmas, and I would like to try making beef jerky. The recipe says that you don’t have to cook the meat if it is fish or beef. You do have to cook chicken or turkey. (What about pork?) So, if I make beef jerky in the dehydrator without cooking it first, do I have to cook it after I dehydrate, or can I just eat it like it is?
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Answer by ole man
no ,that the beauty of that
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No. Marinate and dehydrate.
boil your chicken or pork or venison in a vinigar water solution, roll it out as much as possible to squeze out excess liquid and to flatten then dehydrate.its what i do and its fine.
NO!!! Marinate the beef in liquid smoke, or whatever you prefer and dehydrate. Thats it…
Good luck
I like to just salt and pepper it, then air dry it. It can be done in the oven but go slow, it’s easy to over do it.