Casingless Beef Sticks

[fagesbp]

I decided to try a slimjim without the casing. Started with 3.5 pounds of beef rump roast and 1/2 pound of pork fat. Ground that thru a medium plate (a 1/4" I believe) then seasoned and passed it thru the same plate. I then let it chill and cure overnight. This morning I added ECA and laid the sticks out using a jerky gun. Just put them in the smoker at 140.

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I was stupid and didn't measure so the racks kind of overlapped in the smoker but they're above the meat so a few curved sticks will be the only problem.

 

[boykjo]

Looks great so far.... Nothing wrong with skinless beef sticks

 

[bakedbean1970]

I will be very interested to see these. Have been thinking about trying this myself but never have.

 

[fagesbp]

I went to about 6 stores trying to find the gun. It seemed like before I saw them everywhere and thought "That's stupid. If I want jerky I just slice whole muscle" but now that I rethought and decided to give it a try the guns were nowhere to be found. We don't have any outdoors stores in the small town we live in so we ended up having to drive to academy to get it.

 

[themule69]

I went to about 6 stores trying to find the gun. It seemed like before I saw them everywhere and thought "That's stupid. If I want jerky I just slice whole muscle" but now that I rethought and decided to give it a try the guns were nowhere to be found. We don't have any outdoors stores in the small town we live in so we ended up having to drive to academy to get it.

looks great. was the jerky gun easy to get the meat thru? looks like it did a good job.

david

 

[fagesbp]

It was a serious pain in the ass to load it without air pockets but very easy to pump it out.

 

[daveomak]

Look mighty good Brandon....  Nice job....  

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[doctord1955]

Use your stuffer to fill the tubes!  Sparray your racks with cooking spray before you shot your sticks on them!

 

[fagesbp]

I wiped the racks with cooking oil before i laid the sticks down because I didn't want to make a mess with the spray. Loading the gun with the stuffer means I have to clean the stuffer. It's 6 of 1 and half a dozen of another. Trading off pains.

 

[doctord1955]

Lay down newspaper or butcher paper and sparay over them.  Lot faster filling tubes with stuffer but when i do only #5 i fill mine by hand also  Did u get the gun or the cannon?

 

[fagesbp]

This is what I got. It's all they had in stock and I thought it was pretty good. It's well made as far as I can see.
Jerky gun at academy.com

 

[fagesbp]

And they're done. I cut them in halves and made 10 packs of 8 6" sticks out of 4 pounds of meat/fat. I used kosher salt, black peppper, cayenne pepper, ground corriander, mustard powder, garlic powder, msg, dextrose, nfdm, eca, and cure #1. The eca is the only thing not in the spice pic because I put it in this morning just before shooting and smoking.

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[doctord1955]

Look great! 

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Looks great.

 

[old bones]

Yep!   Looks good.    Nice Job..  Makes my mouth start to water... 

 

[mighty quinn]

I do deer sticks about the same way only in the collagen casings. I have 5 pounds smoking right now; half plain and half with high temp. cheddar cheese. I will post pics when they come out. I usually do them all without cheese, but I found a place here in town that carries it so i thought why not. Yours look great. I am trying to rig up my smoker to hang them. I just lay them out like yours right now. Good smokin!

 

[driedstick]

Looks good luv skinless ones

 

[kingfishcam]

Looks good! Do they stay together well after smoking, or are they a bit fragile without a casing?

 

[daveomak]

Very nice...... Dave

 

[s2k9k]

It was a serious pain in the ass to load it without air pockets but very easy to pump it out.

Next time try this, with the piston all the way in (towards the nozzle) take the nozzle off and stuff the tube pushing the piston back with the meat as you fill it. No air pockets this way.

Oh and your sticks look Great!!!