18 tips and techniques for incredible Jerky

Jerky Tips & Tricks

• Before you begin your experience jerky, familiar with the recommendations of the security check and food to avoid the risk of food poisoning.

• Select Remove only the leanest meat and visible fat cuts. Fat may be old.

• It is advisable to freeze completely wild kill potential parasites in meat.

• When drying oven strips can be placed directly in the oven racks, but add a thick layer of aluminum foil in the bottom to catch drops.

• A wire rack in a baking tray with aluminum foil works well, but may require a driven airflow. A fan blows on the open oven door should do it.

• Make sure the space between the panes for air circulation. Arrange the slices apart at least a half inch.

• Partially frozen meat is easier to cut into thin strips. For the old cut along the grain soft uneven stripes. For more tender dried, cut meat against the grain.

• take thick slices longer to dry than thin. Try to keep the strip for uniform drying of uniform size.

• Use paper towels to absorb, no oil to the surface.

• Depending on the drying method, it may be necessary to turn the meat halfway.

• Ensure jerky cool completely before storing. Blot the humidity. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or freezer.

• Jerky weigh about a quarter of its gross weight of origin.

• Sudden finished products should be as flexible as a green stick. Clean break as a dry stick. This test should after cooking the beef jerky cools be performed.

• salt not only removes the moisture from the meat, but also as a preservative. Jerky the use of salt is much longer than lifeless. Usually with a teaspoon of salt per kilo of meat, the optional addition of herbs and spices, no salt is considered to be equal.

• uneven usually etched in saline with 2-1 / 2 cups pickling salt to 3 liters of water and optional herbs and spices. After 1-2 days, the brine was removed and the dry cleaning process.

• The spicy beef jerky can be stored in the refrigerator or freezer for 2-3 months. In addition, it deteriorated. Cecina No salt should keep in the refrigerator and used within 2 weeks.

• If you always store a marinade in the refrigerator.

• Take., A basic recipe for beef jerky and add your favorite herbs, spices and flavors in a marinade or dry rub to create your own signature uneven

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