Do you eat/make jerky meat sticks?

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I have an attachment for my Lem sausage stuffer for jerky. I've not used it yet though as I tend to make jerky from whole muscle cuts and dry them in the smoker. (We have Amazon UK which is pretty good, but some stuff can be either unavailable in the UK, or the postage is ridiculous)
 
I still make smoke cured meat, biltong and boerewors

Not so easy in UK climate coz of the humidity but you can get round it by building a simple smoker

Used to buy biltong from a local south african butcher but he's up sticks and moved to the smoke so now I only make my own
 
I've made good droewors (air dried sausage) in a homemade drier (plastic box with ventilation holes, PC fan and 60w light bulb). Minced venison & beef fat, vinegar, salt, pepper, crushed coriander seeds.
 
Rather than use a nozzle, I roll out sheets of the mince and then slice with a knife and dry them in a dehydrator for jerky.

I make biltong from whole muscle cuts and air dry that in the garage, hung in front of a slightly ajar window to get the draught through. Only 1 time was it too humid, but works throughout the year.
 
Not so easy in UK climate coz of the humidity
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Yep! Been there...I had a university friend, white Rhodesian, between 1977 and 1979 who tried, up t'North, in Yorkshire to make biltong what with him being from those parts of Africa. But, at that time, and despite tinfoil "mirrors" and all that he never did succeed. Just mostly got nasty slimy semi-dry mouldy beef strips. Although he reckoned anyway that elephant biltong was the best.

Now, forty years later in the late 2010s, BOWL JOHN, I wonder if he tried now he'd have success as certainly our warm seasons are much warmer. He was a few years too late for that hot Summer of 1975. But from that time ever onwards at university I've never passed by a supermarket bag of jerky without thinking of it as anything other than an inferior America version of biltong.
 
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lovely stuff i used to work with an ex rhodesian sf lad back in the 80s who still had relations out there , they used to send him packets(care packages as he wasn't allowed back ) of biltong it was superb
 
Everybody likes biltong then it seems than BOWLJOHN. And that's about the limit of my Shona too. I often wonder what happened to Bill. His family had a ranch near Buffalo. I was asked quite often, this was 1977, 1978, if I wanted to "Bright Light" but decided against it.

It's one of those things that you can't decide if you regret or were wise to decline.

I think I was on balance probably wise. My father who had spent six years in uniform in WWII merely counselled 1) that whilst "war" was the most fun that you could have it tended to lose its attraction once you'd had your legs blown off and 2) that as most of your casualties were caused by your own side's mistakes to never do anything involving the military unless you had a set of pips on your shoulder.
 
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