Interrupted?

[Tender-butt]

So you have your jerky going in your smoker. Then something interrupts you. Like say your using a pellet smoker and the power goes out. What do you do?

My wife wants steaks tonight. I use my smoker. Will it hurt anything to pull the jerky out after smoking for only 4 hours. What should I do with it if I use my smoker for the steaks?

I was gonna finish it in a dehydrator but my dehydrator is too small for all that I’m making.

 

[tallbm]

So you have your jerky going in your smoker. Then something interrupts you. Like say your using a pellet smoker and the power goes out. What do you do?

My wife wants steaks tonight. I use my smoker. Will it hurt anything to pull the jerky out after smoking for only 4 hours. What should I do with it if I use my smoker for the steaks?

I was gonna finish it in a dehydrator but my dehydrator is too small for all that I’m making.

Hi there and welcome!

If you have Cure #1 in your jerky then you have no issues. Pull the meat, put in fridge and then finish smoking it again later.
If you don't well you have to worry about meat safety issues. You CAN put it in the oven and leave the oven door open to it's 1st stop and put oven at 200F and that works like a charm as well.

I hope this info helps :)

 

[chef jimmyj]

If the jerky was brought up to 160°F in that 4 hours, cure #1 or not, it is cooked and like any cooked beef, you can store in the refer then re-heat, aka finish the drying later...JJ

 

[Tender-butt]

It’s not cured. I just decided to do it in the oven.

Does curing the jerky change the flavor? I’m thinking about learning to do it.

 

[tallbm]

It’s not cured. I just decided to do it in the oven.

Does curing the jerky change the flavor? I’m thinking about learning to do it.

Yeah it will change the flavor some but the flavor change is what you have already tasted with jerky anyhow so probably not a "real" change hahha.

Now with pork and poultry you will definitely know the flavor change. If you smoke a pork belly it tasted like pork if you smoke a cured pork belly... BACON!!!! :D