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    Making Meat on Peaceful Mountain

    There are outstanding threads here in OTP with delicious recipes for making jerky, and smoking meats (&cheese!) and dehydrator reviews and great advice! This thread is not one of those, as will become quickly apparent, lol.

    What I want to do, learn to do, through trial & error - is how to preserve, through drying, meat that Tom & I have hunted ourselves. Our freezer has been emptied of all game - so I'll be buying cuts of beef and poultry to learn/practice on this summer - so by next season, I'm good to go. The idea is to be able to provide us with protein for survival, on a year round basis, if/when it ever comes to that.

    Starting points.

    ~ I have stocked up more Salt (non-iodized), Black Pepper, Apple Cider Vinegar and Liquid Smoke than most people would use in a lifetime. These will be all I use for preserving/flavoring.

    ~ Our solar system provides us with more electricity than we come close to using. Because of that, I (intentionally) bought the cheapest stripped down model round plastic dehydrator made. It doesn't even have an on/off switch. Plug it in, it heats (165F) & blows from the bottom up. I bought extra trays to raise things up from the heat in case I want to try drying some fruit or whatever; I'll spend the summer figuring it out. The reason I didn't choose a much better model was because if the solar system ever goes tits up, or EMP, or whatever - and all I have is a campfire to work with - I don't want to learn about drying using all the digital automated 'advantages'. I'm not dissing anyone's choices & methods here; this is something different.

    ~ I'll also be experimenting over an open fire - but progress/pics on that I'll put on:

    https://theoutdoortradingpost.com/sh...ky-the-old-way

    This thread will be used for doing it this way.

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    MountainGirl, I will try to find it, but here or at the PF I showed a video of "Deebos Box Fan Jerky".
    Nothing but air, moving through the meat on cheap air filters.
    1 box fan, no heat. Takes a while, but he flavor of jerky that has never seen any heat, is very very different than any smoker or dehydrator.
    As Inor, it is out of this world.
    I cant speak of the long Gevity of it, because we never had any left to vac seal, or store.
    I have room to make jerky again...
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    You asked about grinders here is mine-

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    Quote Originally Posted by hawgrider View Post
    You asked about grinders here is mine-

    That is nice, Hawg, thanks. You got a great price on it, or you've had it for a while. They're over $300 now but I think that's the one I'll get...especially now. Ran to town this morning to pick up a small roast - hamburger was $7.49 a pound. Cheaper to grind my own. lol. Much cheaper when it's fresh meat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deebo View Post
    MountainGirl, I will try to find it, but here or at the PF I showed a video of "Deebos Box Fan Jerky".
    Nothing but air, moving through the meat on cheap air filters.
    1 box fan, no heat. Takes a while, but he flavor of jerky that has never seen any heat, is very very different than any smoker or dehydrator.
    As Inor, it is out of this world.
    I cant speak of the long Gevity of it, because we never had any left to vac seal, or store.
    I have room to make jerky again...
    Hey Deebo - yeah I'd love to see that thread if you can find it. I want to explore any/all methods (that dont involve propane) and a box fan would use less juice than a dehyd. And yes, you do indeed have room you could set up a whole processing station!

    Very cool link & idea!! Thanks!!
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    Going to keep records here, so I don't lose them lol.
    Batch results to be edited in.

    First run: June 18
    Small (1.66lb) beef bottom round roast, sliced setting 5- about 1/4", left naked.
    Used 4 trays; filled 3, bottom one empty to keep it off the close heat.
    Set up a small table/station outside the back door.
    Fired it up at 10:30, will check every 2 hrs.

    Notes:
    1. Meat cut at room temp. Slicer gums up some but not bad.
    2. Need to sharpen knives.

    Taste:
    1:30 Tastes good, piece off the top rack, fully cooked but nowhere near dry.
    5:00 Tastes good, well done but not burnt.

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    Took it off at 5pm, so 6.5 hrs. Hard but bendy, cracks but doesn't break.
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    Now the real test. Will leave it covered loose on the counter w/paper towels between layers & eat it over the next month. If it doesn't kill me then I know it works.
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