the sanitation is what would bother me, and i think shink might have a jerky
for the cats, i know she gives hers some kind, Lee
"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> Leonard Blaisdell > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> "Tom Del Rosso" > wrote:
>>
>> > Alton uses a fan with no heater to dry the meat. The recipe doesn't
>> > say
>> > anything about cooking, and neither do many others. Some call for a
>> > dehydrator and merely 'recommend' that it has a heater. Isn't cooking
>> > mandatory?
>>
>> I've made a lot of jerky out of venison and some from duck. It's been
>> twenty five years since my last batch. My memory is foggy, except I
>> sliced the meat to about 1/8 inch, brined it with salt and a bit of soy
>> sauce for about a day, coarse peppered hell out of it to discourage
>> flies and hung it in the garage over fishing line during the fall when
>> temps didn't freeze much nor heat up to much more than seventy F. There
>> was no cooking. It took one to two weeks hanging out of direct sunlight
>> in our dry climate. I never saw a fly come close to it.
>> Puddle ducks make much better jerky than diving ducks from my
>> experience. Avoid a Ruddy Duck.
>> I did it. It was good. I'm alive. However, your milage may vary.
>> I quit making jerky when I quit shooting deer. I didn't quit shooting
>> deer for any moral reason.
>>
>> leo
>
> Home made jerky is generally the best and not all full of the crap they
> tend to put in jerky for people.
>
> This is my favorite commercial jerky and it comes in chicken and duck,
> has no chemical additives, sugar, salt or Nitrates, and is about 1/2 the
> price of jerky for humans. I'm buying a different brand of the duck
> right now at pet smart for $17.00 for 2 lbs.
>
> It's delicious and the dogs get to have some too. ;-)
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/Smokehouse-Nat...eats/dp/B0017T
> X3VG>
>
> Or <http://tinyurl.com/3hvhkpt>
>
> It really is nothing but pure dried meat.
>
> The dogs love it so much they have come to expect it as treats and look
> at me mournfully if I offer them any other kind. ;-) Even they know the
> difference between quality and crap, altho' that surprises me a bit
> knowing what dogs will sometimes consume. <g>
>
> I wish they made a similar pure cat treat but this stuff is too tough
> for the cats to chew.
>
> I hate peppered jerky. When we home made it, we used teryaki sauce and
> sometimes a bit of pure maple syrup and used a dehydrator. I've made
> jerky from beef, venison and emu.
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