Video Beef Jerky For Beginners – Smokin’ Joe’s Pit BBQ

Video Beef Jerky ✅ Thank you for watching my beef jerky for Beginners video. On This video, I make some amazing beef jerky using a jerky kit from PS Seasoning using my Meat Dehydrator. This beef jerky is some of the best I’ve had and you can add addition seasonings to the jerky like I did in this video. ✅ Beef Jerky For Beginners – Smokin’ Joe’s Pit BBQ

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welcome back to my channel I’m Joe with
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Smoking Joe’s Pit Barbecue are you a fan
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of beef jerky like I am but maybe you’re
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not 100 comfortable in making it well
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this is a video for you stay tuned
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all right let’s get started on this beef
Trimming
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jerky for beginners video I’m starting
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with an eight pound beef Aya round now
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when you’re making beef jerky
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you want to try to get a piece of meat
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that’s really lean
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so I’m going to take this out of the
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wrapper
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and I did have it in my freezer for
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about two hours so it’s partially frozen
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just to make it easy to trim and slice
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so whenever I make beef jerky I like
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using the beef I round again because
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it’s a very lean piece of meat now we do
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have some fat on the surface
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and all you want to do is try to remove
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most of the fat
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so you don’t want fat in your beef jerky
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because that can actually spoil on you
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pretty quick
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and ruin the beef jerky entirely now if
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you’re going to consume your beef jerky
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let’s say within a week you’re going to
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be fine leaving a little bit of fat but
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my preference is not to leave
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that much fat on the beef jerky because
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it can go rancid pretty quick
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so all I’m doing is I’m taking my Dow
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strong fillet knife
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and shaving a little bit of the fat at a
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time I just want to expose that really
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nice
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clean meat
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alright so as you can see I’ve got half
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of this beef eye of round
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trimmed just so you guys can see how
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much fat I’ve taken off so I’m going to
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trim up the rest of this
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and I’ll bring you guys right back
Cutting
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all right so I’ve got my B5 round all
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trimmed up now we started with eight
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pounds and I just weighed this and we’re
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down to six pounds okay so I trimmed
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about two pounds of fat and naturally
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you will cut off some of the meat but
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that’s just part of the process okay so
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again just a reminder that this meat is
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partially frozen which is going to make
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it really easy or easier I should say
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to trim up for your beef jerky
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now I’m going to be cooking this beef
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jerky in a dehydrator
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so I’m cutting these strips
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or these pieces of meat
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oh about maybe a quarter of an inch an
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eighth to about a quarter of an inch
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because these will shrink down okay
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you can see how thick I’m going right
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there
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okay not too thin and not too thick
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now I do have a meat slicer and yes
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that would make it easier but
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I have nothing else to do so I’m just
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going to cut this
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by hand
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so if you notice
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I am cutting this meat
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Against the Grain okay
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this is going to give us a much softer
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beef jerky
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just the way I like it I don’t want a
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really super tough
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piece of jerky
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so I would highly recommend
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that you do cut your jerky
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Against the Grain just a overall better
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eating experience if you will
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so as I mentioned earlier we started
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with six pounds of meat
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and once this is ready we’ll probably go
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down to maybe three
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two and a half pounds of beef jerky
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but it will be the best beef jerky
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you’ve ever had
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better than any store-bought
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beef jerky that’s for sure
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and you made it yourself
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all right so I’ve got all the meat cut
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up now I’m just going to place this in a
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plastic container
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and try not to have
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the meat overlap itself okay just kind
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of loosely in there if you will
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[Music]
Seasoning
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all right let’s mix up our seasonings
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for our beef jerky I’m going to be using
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this jerky kit from Pia seasoning this
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is their honey barbecue jerky kit now
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each kit will make 15 pounds
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now inside the jerky kit you do get
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three pouches of jerky seasoning and
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three pouches of jerky cure
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now each one of these pouches is 56
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grams so I’m going to add
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one packet of seasoning
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and one package of the jerky cure now if
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you remember I am starting with six
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pounds of meat so I waited out it comes
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out to 11.2 grams of cure per pound
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and 11.2 grams of seasoning per pound
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so I just opened up one of the packages
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and weighed out 11.2 grams now I did
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weigh out the seasonings using this meat
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scale if you guys don’t have one and
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you’re into jerky making or sausage
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making I highly recommend this little
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scale right here from meat check out the
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links below and grab yourself one
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not for every five pounds you do need to
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add one cup of water
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since I am starting with six pounds
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I added about one and a quarter cups of
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water so I’m just going to mix this
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really well
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all right we got our seasonings all
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mixed up
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just gonna Slide the meat over
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and pour this marinade all over our meat
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I got to tell you these jerky kits make
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beef jerky making super simple
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now as you start to get experience
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in making beef jerky
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you can mix up your own seasonings which
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I’ll do in a future video
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I know there’s going to be some folks
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out there that are going to ask why
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we’re using a jerky kit to make beef
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jerky
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and I got to tell you I’ve made a lot of
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beef jerky and I continue to use these
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jerky kits they’re super simple easy to
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use plus you don’t have to buy 15
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bottles of seasonings and cure and
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everything else everything is all mixed
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up for you now I’m going to add some
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more seasonings to this after this is
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marinated overnight
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you want this meat to absorb this
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delicious
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seasoning that we just mixed up so I’m
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going to cover this up pop into my
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fridge for about 12 hours
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and we’ll see you guys tomorrow stay
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tuned
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all right and just like that it is a
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very next day
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let’s take a look at our beef jerky oh
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yeah
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change color you can definitely tell
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that the meat has absorbed a lot of our
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brine now there’s some spots that are
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still kind of red but that’s okay
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that’s going to work just fine I could
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have gone in here and mixed it up
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a little bit
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but I can tell you that the meat is
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definitely
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absorbed a lot of that marinade okay so
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I’m just going to move the meat aside
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and I do have my jerky rack right here
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and I’ll show you my dehydrator here in
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a minute but what I’m going to do is
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I’m going to grab
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the meat and just start to lay it
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on top of these racks
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now this jerky right now is a blank
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canvas even though this is a honey
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barbecue jerky kit
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feel free to add
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any other spices
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just be mindful that you don’t want to
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add any salt to the jerky
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but you can add some things like I will
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show you that process here in a bit now
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the jerky is going to shrink up a little
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bit
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but you don’t want the jerky overlapping
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on each other okay
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oh man this jerky smells absolutely
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amazing
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[Music]
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well it’s not jerky yet well is it jerky
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now or is it jerky when it’s done
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what do you guys say
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now this dehydrator that I’m going to be
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using has 10 racks
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so I’ve got plenty of room
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so I’m just going to add a little bit of
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red pepper flake
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to this turkey right here
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just sprinkle some of this on it
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little sweet and spicy action going on
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all right so on this jerky I want to add
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some black pepper
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just do one side
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you can add as much
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or as little as you want so you don’t
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have to add anything on top of the jerky
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if you don’t want to
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again this is a jerky kit the honey
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barbecue jerky and that flavor alone is
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pretty good
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but I want to kick it up a notch
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so I’m going to add some black pepper to
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some and some red pepper flake to others
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all right just like that I’m going to
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lay out the rest of these and I’ll bring
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you guys right back
Dehydrating
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all right so here’s my meat dehydrator
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and this is by the company meat check
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them out at the links below if you guys
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are interested in getting one of these
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this is a 10 drawer meat dehydrator
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so I ended up using five racks I’m gonna
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put the ones with the red chili at the
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very bottom
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and I left some plain
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I’m going to put those up top
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you can easily fit I don’t know
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15 pounds of beef jerky in here
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‘s some more red chili
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put those
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close to each other
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and I only made one with black pepper
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I’m gonna put that right in the middle
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that way if anything drips
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it’ll all season itself right there and
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you do have a drip tray on the bottom
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just in case you do have some liquid
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that drips
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so I’m going to close the door
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[Music]
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I want to hit the power button
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so right now it’s set to time
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I’m going to cook these for probably
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let’s do four and a half hours
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hit the time and temp button
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I’m gonna cook these let me see here
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at 149 degrees for four and a half hours
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I’ll bring you guys back two and a half
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hours in we’ll check on the jerky stay
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tuned
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all right so we are at the two hour mark
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I still have two and a half hours to go
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let’s check out our beef jerky
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shouldn’t be too hot
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not at all actually
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but that’s what our beef jerky looks
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like after two hours in the dehydrator
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so as you can tell the beef jerky is
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still a little bit pliable but it has
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dried up quite a bit we’ll check back in
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about two and a half hours
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stay tuned
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alright so after five and a half hours
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the jerky is ready now I did let them go
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for an additional hour because it wasn’t
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100 dry
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and I just wanted to make sure our jerky
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was nice and dry so I let it go for
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another hour now we just gotta peel this
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beef jerky off of these racks
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and it is on there pretty good I think
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we could have sprayed
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these racks with some Pam or something
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not too bad
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so I’m just going to grab a few pieces
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all right so here’s my beautiful stack
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of beef jerky
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check that out
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here’s our peppered beef jerky
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red pepper flake
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and here’s our standard honey barbecue
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jerky
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this is what you want to happen to your
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beef jerky when you bend it you don’t
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want it to crack you can see the meat
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fibers kind of turning white on there
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that’s exactly what you want you can rip
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it apart
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you can see those white fibers from the
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meat that’s exactly what you want you
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don’t want it to crack on you okay
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that is absolutely perfect
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[Music]
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same thing with our black pepper jerky
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look at that
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perfect
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and the red pepper flake jerky
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again it does not break
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but it does crack
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and you can see those white fibers
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from the meat
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all right let’s get these bad boys a
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taste
Tasting
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all right let’s try the plain honey
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barbecue beef jerky
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here we go
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[Music]
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oh yeah
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delicious man that jerky has an amazing
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Hickory flavor
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so good now let’s try our black peppered
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beef jerky again still the honey
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barbecue but we add some black pepper to
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it
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there’s a back side of it
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here we go
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[Music]
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man that black pepper gives it a really
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nice kick of spice absolutely delicious
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now let’s try the red pepper flake beef
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jerky check that out
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here we go
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you know what I should have done is I
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should have combined the black pepper
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with the red pepper flake that would
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have been Savage
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so let’s just sandwich these together
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there you go
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that’s money
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um
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man I am really loving the honey
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barbecue flavor of this jerky kit don’t
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forget to check out Pia seasoning and if
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you don’t have a dehydrator check out
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the company meat the links will be down
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below and thank them for sponsoring
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today’s video
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oh and just in case you’re wondering I
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did weigh out the beef jerky and we
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ended up with three pounds of beef jerky
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that means that we lost 50 percent of
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the weight during the cooking process
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and that’s due to the moisture that was
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extracted from the meat itself so now
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that you’ve got all of this beef jerky
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how are you gonna store it well you want
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to store it in a glass container not a
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plastic bag not a plastic container you
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want it to be airtight maybe like a
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large mason jar just put all your beef
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jerky in there pop it in your fridge and
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it will hold for several months
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the other thing that I want to mention
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is that The Cure packets that you get
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inside the beef jerky kit does have
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sodium nitrite which will help preserve
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the beef jerky for you I hope you guys
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enjoyed this beef jerky for beginners
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