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Hawkeye10

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Why am I eating a new brand (I think) that is strangely soft and moist and sweet like Praline Bacon?

Sometimes the modern American appetite baffles me.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Why am I eating a new brand (I think) that is strangely soft and moist and sweet like Praline Bacon?

Sometimes the modern American appetite baffles me.
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Store bought beef jerky sucks, big time. I have yet to try 1 that's even bad, all are worse than bad....

Buy a dehydrator and make your own. That's what we do now, 110 times better then the store crap.
 
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SenorXm/Sirius said:
Store bought beef jerky sucks, big time. I have yet to try 1 that's even bad, all are worse than bad....

Buy a dehydrator and make your own. That's what we do now, 110 times better then the store crap.
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It's not a big thing here. My local supermarket started to stock it. It's like chewing leather.
 
zyzygy said:
It's not a big thing here. My local supermarket started to stock it. It's like chewing leather.
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If you make your own its soo much better
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Why am I eating a new brand (I think) that is strangely soft and moist and sweet like Praline Bacon?

Sometimes the modern American appetite baffles me.
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Because the elite are ruining your beef snacks, they ruined the airlines, ruined beef snacks, Donald Trump must stop them and make beef jerky great again
 
Last time I ate American beef jerky I was 16.

I ate Chinese beef jerky a few years back- it was sticky and sweet.
 
PoS said:
Last time I ate American beef jerky I was 16.

I ate Chinese beef jerky a few years back- it was sticky and sweet.
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Are you sure it was beef? :2razz:
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Why am I eating a new brand (I think) that is strangely soft and moist and sweet like Praline Bacon?

Sometimes the modern American appetite baffles me.
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There's some brand here in Los Angeles I just discovered (the name escapes me) that's made by orthodox Jews and it's not the usual super-chewy, traditional jerky. Soft, supple and most (but not sweet) as you describe.

I love all jerky, but this stuff is great.
 
Winchester said:
Are you sure it was beef? :2razz:
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Well it did come in a foil packet with a cow on its label and I had to open it like a bag of potato chips ... so yes!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Why am I eating a new brand (I think) that is strangely soft and moist and sweet like Praline Bacon?

Sometimes the modern American appetite baffles me.
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My daughter loves beef jerky for some reason so we get it a lot. She likes more sweet and I go more for sweet and spice. There's a local guy that we get it from that makes some awesome jerky and his are mostly soft and moist.
 
americanwoman said:
My daughter loves beef jerky for some reason so we get it a lot. She likes more sweet and I go more for sweet and spice. There's a local guy that we get it from that makes some awesome jerky and his are mostly soft and moist.
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I just dont get it,,,,when I want candy I get candy, when I want jerky I want jerky.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
There's some brand here in Los Angeles I just discovered (the name escapes me) that's made by orthodox Jews and it's not the usual super-chewy, traditional jerky. Soft, supple and most (but not sweet) as you describe.

I love all jerky, but this stuff is great.
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People love it, I dont.

I might be a hard case, I am still not over the Corn Nut people figuring out a way to make them less hard on the teeth way back in the early 80's I think it was.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Because the elite are ruining your beef snacks, they ruined the airlines, ruined beef snacks, Donald Trump must stop them and make beef jerky great again
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That's pretty funny, but I am not in a laughing mood.... beef jerky is something that I love, I am not happy that so often now it is meat candy.

Seems like we need to not call meat candy jerky, surely we can come up with a snazzy name.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Store bought beef jerky sucks, big time. I have yet to try 1 that's even bad, all are worse than bad....

Buy a dehydrator and make your own. That's what we do now, 110 times better then the store crap.
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Ya, I am pretty sure that was the conscious the last time I complained to people about how Jerky has been wrecked.

And I am retired now, I have the time.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Store bought beef jerky sucks, big time. I have yet to try 1 that's even bad, all are worse than bad....

Buy a dehydrator and make your own. That's what we do now, 110 times better then the store crap.
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My son hunts and makes a lot of deer jerky. There is no comparison.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
And I am retired now, I have the time.
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Making your own Jerky definitely takes A LOT of time. We get 4-5 lbs. of beef. Takes days to get it all done. But it lasts a long time and like I said before, it's 100x better than store bought.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Making your own Jerky definitely takes A LOT of time. We get 4-5 lbs. of beef. Takes days to get it all done. But it lasts a long time and like I said before, it's 100x better than store bought.
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Do you have a fav recipe?

Fav contraption?

Do I need a meat slicer?

I might be ready to take the plunge.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Do you have a fav recipe?

Fav contraption?

Do I need a meat slicer?

I might be ready to take the plunge.
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Any good dehydrator will do.. We do 1/2 the meat with a teriyaki recipe. They other 1/2 hot and spicy. Not super hot, but a little bite. We marinate them for 2 days or so in the refrigerator. Then start to dehydrate. Each 'batch' in the dehydrator takes hours, so it's going to take 2-3 days to get all the meat done.

We cut it by hand, and that is time consuming. But here's a tip. Half freeze the meat(we usually use London Broil or Flank), then cut it. It easier to cut when it's half frozen.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Any good dehydrator will do.. We do 1/2 the meat with a teriyaki recipe. They other 1/2 hot and spicy. Not super hot, but a little bite. We marinate them for 2 days or so in the refrigerator. Then start to dehydrate. Each 'batch' in the dehydrator takes hours, so it's going to take 2-3 days to get all the meat done.

We cut it by hand, and that is time consuming. But here's a tip. Half freeze the meat(we usually use London Broil or Flank), then cut it. It easier to cut when it's half frozen.
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In my experience not a lot of people know that trick, we used to do that in the Army DFAC when we did Beef Bulgogi.... 50lb or more at a time....half frozen and then through the slicer, worked like a charm.
 
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