Power outage during dehydrate. SAVE ME!!

[LouisvilleQue502]

Hello all,
I had a nice venison roast that I sliced and put in my dehydrator this afternoon. I keep my dehydrator on my covered back porch. The outside temp when it was out there was between 40-46 Fahrenheit. Okay... so I put it on at noon and wanted it to cook for 5.5 hours. However, my power was out from 1pm to 6pm. Is the jerky ruined and should I throw it away?

I really don’t want to get sick.

 

[chef jimmyj]

Does your dehydrator start at 160 then drop?
Did you add Cure #1 to your marinade?
What was in the marinnade?
What % Salt did you use?...JJ

 

[LouisvilleQue502]

I have the Nesco dehydrator set at max temp 155. I did. It use a cure. Had over a lb of meat and eyeballed the salt, probably like 1 tablespoon. Other marinade ingredients are garlic powder and Worcestershire sauce

 

[pineywoods]

You said you used cure your good carry on you can put it in the fridge for the night and start again tomorrow like nothing happened and it was just a bad dream. Or you can start it now whatever you want

 

[chef jimmyj]

I concur with Sir Woods. You'll be fine...JJ