Cold Smoked Jerky

[uncle eddie]

I never really had the will to make 100% smoked jerky in my MES40, but I will eat all you give to me. I always make my jerky in an Open Country forced air dehydrator.

My last batch was eye of round and I took a 1/3 of it and loaded up a cookie cooling tray and popped it in my MES40 with a little hickory in my AMNPS to try to cold smoke my finished jerky. It was 50F outside when I did this and I made chewy-jerky for this batch in my Open Country dehydrator (as opposed to crunchier drier jerky) An hour and a half in the smoke later, the results were pretty good...I actually think maybe an hour of smoke might be better.

We'll check it again in the morning and I will get the families opinion this weekend.

Loaded up and ready to smoke


Thin blue smoke


After smoking and two samples tested

 

[Rings Я Us]

I love smoker eye of round jerky. Im making some right now on my ECB/w Gen.1

 

[motocrash]

Good looking stuff:)

 

[motocrash]

Saw this on the site.Great one!

 

[motocrash]

Sorry about the above post.It wasn't meant for here.

 

[SmokinAl]

Looks real good!
Al

 

[SmokinAl]

Looks real good!
Al

 

[uncle eddie]

End Result: I am hooked on cold smoked dehydrator-made jerky now. It tastes about the same as 100% smoked jerky with the added convenience of using the forced air dehydrator to make the jerky easily. Since it is made with cure and marinate, I am sure I can "cold" smoke the finished dehydrator jerky through the summer as well.

 

[Steve H]

Does look good. I may need to dig out my dehydrator and give that a try.

 

[nanuk]

So, just to be clear, you dry it first, THEN smoke it for an hour?

 

[SonnyE]

Saw this on the site.Great one!

If you own a Tesla, and it breeds with a Prius, the offspring would be an Edison if male, or a Ge if a Female. :rolleyes:

 

[uncle eddie]

So, just to be clear, you dry it first, THEN smoke it for an hour?

Correct...make the jerky as normal. Then I put it in the smoker (no heat) and use my AMNPS to smoke it.

 

[nanuk]

I recently purchased a dehydrator and a MES clone.
Ima trying this when the snow melts!

 

[SonnyE]

Correct...make the jerky as normal. Then I put it in the smoker (no heat) and use my AMNPS to smoke it.

I'll Tri it that way. But I've always smoked, then dried.

 

[mlrtym44]

I need to try smoking my jerky. never did it. anyone try smoking before the marinate? just curious what the difference might be.