- Nov 28, 2016
- 17
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Hello forum, I have a deer jerky question for you.
I took a buck last month to the deer processor I have been going to for a few years and told them to make jerky this time since I have always had them make summer sausage or normal cuts and ground. I picked the meat up a week later and started unpacking it at home and I noticed that they made ground deer jerky and not whole strips from the roast like I expected but it is what their website says so it is my bad for not asking them what type they made.
I had a jerky gun a few years ago but didn't care for ground beef jerky and gave it to goodwill. I now buy beef roast and slice them into strips with the LEM 2 in 1 jerky attachment on my #8 grinder. I have always planned on getting a sausage stuffer to make small batches of breakfast links and maybe a few brats here and there. Now I have 12 two pound packs of ground jerky in the freezer. I have no friends with equipment so borrowing a gun is not available. I really don't want to buy a gun since I will be getting whole roast from now on at the processor and making strip jerky myself.
Now, could I put this ground jerky mix in a stuffer with 19mm collagen casing and then put them in my Excalibur dehydrator? I have a cookshack smoker also but would like to not have to mess with that if I can get away with the dehydrator.
I will call them to make 100% sure that there is cure in the ground jerky before I get ready to make it, but have some here if I need to add it.
I took a buck last month to the deer processor I have been going to for a few years and told them to make jerky this time since I have always had them make summer sausage or normal cuts and ground. I picked the meat up a week later and started unpacking it at home and I noticed that they made ground deer jerky and not whole strips from the roast like I expected but it is what their website says so it is my bad for not asking them what type they made.
I had a jerky gun a few years ago but didn't care for ground beef jerky and gave it to goodwill. I now buy beef roast and slice them into strips with the LEM 2 in 1 jerky attachment on my #8 grinder. I have always planned on getting a sausage stuffer to make small batches of breakfast links and maybe a few brats here and there. Now I have 12 two pound packs of ground jerky in the freezer. I have no friends with equipment so borrowing a gun is not available. I really don't want to buy a gun since I will be getting whole roast from now on at the processor and making strip jerky myself.
Now, could I put this ground jerky mix in a stuffer with 19mm collagen casing and then put them in my Excalibur dehydrator? I have a cookshack smoker also but would like to not have to mess with that if I can get away with the dehydrator.
I will call them to make 100% sure that there is cure in the ground jerky before I get ready to make it, but have some here if I need to add it.