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    First go at making home-made beef jerky.. Turned out horrible. What did I do wrong?

    170 degrees is low? My dehydrator only goes up to 160, and I have heard of people drying jerky at 40 degrees with cool wind! Also, I don't have a smoker..
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    First go at making home-made beef jerky.. Turned out horrible. What did I do wrong?

    So it just spoiled from not having a cure? I thought about cures, but the recipes I looked at never said you needed them.. Just a little bit of salt for flavor was all they mentioned.. I will look for a cure kit, but I live in California, and there are no Cabelas here. I will dry mine at a...
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    First go at making home-made beef jerky.. Turned out horrible. What did I do wrong?

    I did a lot of research on both home-made and store-bought dehydrators.. I've seen the $10 jerky maker, Alton Brown's fan/filter dryer, and several others, but I decided to buy an electric dehydrator. After researching recipes, I saw that a lot of experts recommended drying jerky at only around...
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