I made Bears Dried Beef..

[pigbark]

started the Eye of Round curing on the 9.14 .. smoked them today and all I can say is it's a WINNER around here.. my wife is in love with it .. it didnt get a chance to cool much under 100 F .. cut it ,, cut it, I want to taste it.. LOL man if you have not cured yet, you really need to try this one out. it's so easy to do.. this is one wagon you'll be glad you jumped on.

 

[bertman]

Looks fantastic! I made this a few months ago using venison, and I would second your recommendation. Good stuff!

 

[Fueling Around]

Dried (cured) beef is one of my favorites.
Looks great and if the wife likes it...
"Honey make some more dried beef."

 

[SmokinAl]

Looks delicious!
Al

 

[pigbark]

Looks delicious!
Al

it is.. I brought a small bag for lunch today.. I let a buddy try it , we knocked it out fast .. he said it was the best he had in a long time.. I'm going to use the meat slicer on the bigger piece tonight.. thin sliced, should be perfect..

 

[smokerjim]

looks great, going to have to make some and try it

 

[pigbark]

looks great, going to have to make some and try it

its worth a try..
who is UVA? they cant Fight like the Irish- Notre Dame

 

[smokerjim]

its worth a try..
who is UVA? they cant Fight like the Irish- Notre Dame

GO IRISH!

 

[Bearcarver]

Looks Great PB !!
Glad you're enjoying it !
You did a Really Good Job!!
Like.

One thing though---You should get a slicer, so you can cut it real thin.
That will take it even farther over the top!!

You're gonna need it for Bacon & other things anyway.

OOOOPS---On edit I see you have a slicer & will be cutting the rest real thin.

Bear

 

[tx smoker]

Yessir, you cannot go wrong with dried beef Bear's way!! I started making it 2 years ago with a twist from Holly2015 and have not looked back. It's some of the best stuff on the planet!! Now you gotta make some creamed chipped beef and gravy on toast. A childhood favorite revisited and it's never been better!!

You go Bear!!
Robert

 

[pigbark]

Looks Great PB !!
Glad you're enjoying it !
You did a Really Good Job!!
Like.

One thing though---You should get a slicer, so you can cut it real thin.
That will take it even farther over the top!!

You're gonna need it for Bacon & other things anyway.

OOOOPS---On edit I see you have a slicer & will be cutting the rest real thin.

Bear

Thanks Bear.. the step by step you have laid out is super easy to follow.. this is the second one i have tried, both easy to make and taste great.. hopefully more people try curing meat out.. simple to do and really adds flavor..

 

[Steve H]

Looks real good. I'm about due to make some more as well.

 

[Bearcarver]

Thanks Bear.. the step by step you have laid out is super easy to follow.. this is the second one i have tried, both easy to make and taste great.. hopefully more people try curing meat out.. simple to do and really adds flavor..

Another one I'm sure you'll love is my "Bacon on a Stick". You only put Tender Quick on it for 48 hours, and the taste is unbelievable.
Here ya go:
Bacon-On-A-Stick

Bear

 

[Smokin' in AZ]

Yessir, you cannot go wrong with dried beef Bear's way!! I started making it 2 years ago with a twist from Holly2015 and have not looked back. It's some of the best stuff on the planet!! Now you gotta make some creamed chipped beef and gravy on toast. A childhood favorite revisited and it's never been better!!

You go Bear!!
Robert

Wow, I totally forgot about that....we used to do it camping, on toast. I think we used carl budding chipped beef from vacuum bags.

Sorry I might be dating myself...on that note I had somebody ask ask me the other day if I was over 18.....and I said yep several times.

Sorry PB for the derail, now back to our regularly scheduled program.

John

 

[tx smoker]

Wow, I totally forgot about that....we used to do it camping, on toast. I think we used carl budding chipped beef from vacuum bags.

Interesting. I just finished eating a batch and it too was in a vac seal bag....but it was a bag that I sealed I do dearly love my creamed chip beef and gravy on toast. Even with all the breakfast stuff around here that I've made, I still manage to eat this at least once a week.

Nap time....
Robert

 

[Smokin' in AZ]

Also used to get it served as "$hit on a Shingle" in the Navy.

Hope you had a nice nap buddy!

John

 

[tx smoker]

Also used to get it served as "$hit on a Shingle" in the Navy.

Here we go again This is "creamed chipped beef and gravy on toast", not SOS. The stuff in the Navy (SOS), at least according to everybody who has chimed in on previous threads (I was never in the Navy), say that SOS is made with cheap hamburger, weird spices, and tastes horrible. Dried beef is too expensive, although much tastier, thus they use cheap nasty meat.

Hope you had a nice nap buddy!

Thanks but didn't actually take a nap. I just tend to eat way more of this stuff than I should and it makes me full and lazy.

Nap does sound good though....
Robert

 

[Smokin' in AZ]

Here we go again This is "creamed chipped beef and gravy on toast", not SOS. The stuff in the Navy (SOS), at least according to everybody who has chimed in on previous threads (I was never in the Navy), say that SOS is made with cheap hamburger, weird spices, and tastes horrible. Dried beef is too expensive, although much tastier, thus they use cheap nasty meat.



Thanks but didn't actually take a nap. I just tend to eat way more of this stuff than I should and it makes me full and lazy.

Nap does sound good though....
Robert

Ok that was in the late 70's and early 80's so might be a bit different or I might be having a senior moment, but I do remember it being chipped beef and gravy at least on the submarine tenders that I was stationed on. But I also remember that I used to help load cases of steak and lobster on to the submarines (and those guys referred to us surface skimmers as targets, but that's OK because we called them bubble heads) ....and we would get steaks as a treat once a month, probably so we would not rat them out.

John

 

[Bearcarver]

Ok that was in the late 70's and early 80's so might be a bit different or I might be having a senior moment, but I do remember it being chipped beef and gravy at least on the submarine tenders that I was stationed on. But I also remember that I used to help load cases of steak and lobster on to the submarines (and those guys referred to us surface skimmers as targets, but that's OK because we called them bubble heads) ....and we would get steaks as a treat once a month, probably so we would not rat them out.

John

That's quite possible that the Uppity Air Force & the Navy may have gotten Chipped Beef in their SOS, but believe me it was Hamburger in the Army.
I guess just too many of us to waste a High Priced Meat mixed in the Gravy.

We always had the Tasty "Cream Chipped Beef on Toast" at home, but in the Army it was Hamburger & SOS was a Good name for it. It's terrible, IMHO.

Bear

 

[Smokin' in AZ]

Sorry to hear that Bear, anybody serving, especially in combat deserves better!