• Aarrodri@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I bought a semi professional meat slicer , and a decent dehydrator. Now I make my own beef jerky and saving tons.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve read several reviews that suggest DIY beef jerky is only slightly cheaper, and it’s a surprising amount of work per pound. The TL;DR of those reviews was that it’s just not worth it.

      Has that not been your experience? I love to eat it but it’s pretty expensive.

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        6 months ago

        It was a lot of work without the weight tools. It takes me about 5 min to cut meat, prepare marinate … Then next day about 5 min to set dehydrator. The advantages? is variety of flavors, no bs chemical, volume. I buy a full round beef for 30 bucks at Costco and that makes the equivalent of about 70 dlls of packaged beef jerky.