- Dec 5, 2017
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First time making beef jerky, so please offer critiques/tips if you see I'm missing something or could improve on this somehow (I'm sure there's lots of ways I could improve, so please share).
First, here's what I'm working with. It's thin-sliced eye of round.
I cut it into strips from there
I set aside a few pieces that I'm planning to just salt and pepper for my kids, and the rest is getting marinated in a honey sriracha marinade. I recently tried @waterinholebrew's recipe for honey sriracha bacon jerky, and while my bacon wasn't near the quality his was, my family loved it, so that inspired me to try making a marinade recipe with beef jerky based on that same flavor combo. Here's the marinade recipe that I'm using:
6 tablespoons honey
6 tablespoons sriracha
3-5 tablespoons red wine vinegar (roughly estimated...sorta... :cool: I basically added this to make the marinade a bit more viscous and for a tad more volume to fully cover the meat)
Added meat and marinade to a Ziploc bag and have it marinating for about 18 hours before smoking it in my MES.
The plan is to smoke at around 170° with the meat hanging from toothpicks in the smoker.
Thoughts?
First, here's what I'm working with. It's thin-sliced eye of round.
I cut it into strips from there
I set aside a few pieces that I'm planning to just salt and pepper for my kids, and the rest is getting marinated in a honey sriracha marinade. I recently tried @waterinholebrew's recipe for honey sriracha bacon jerky, and while my bacon wasn't near the quality his was, my family loved it, so that inspired me to try making a marinade recipe with beef jerky based on that same flavor combo. Here's the marinade recipe that I'm using:
6 tablespoons honey
6 tablespoons sriracha
3-5 tablespoons red wine vinegar (roughly estimated...sorta... :cool: I basically added this to make the marinade a bit more viscous and for a tad more volume to fully cover the meat)
Added meat and marinade to a Ziploc bag and have it marinating for about 18 hours before smoking it in my MES.
The plan is to smoke at around 170° with the meat hanging from toothpicks in the smoker.
Thoughts?
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