Jerky is always a food of convenience. It’s a food that is always on the shelf, you eat it if you’re dead. If I had time, energy, equipment, space, and desire to cook, I would be cooking a meal.
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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days agoJerky is seriously price inflated with a surprisingly large amount of defenders who babble about the cost of meat without apparently having ever made some themselves.
Buy $20 of beef, rub it with some salt and spices and stick it in a dehydrator, it’s not rocket science, it’s literally just how humans have preserved meat for our entire history.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah, but you can make like 20 servings of Jerkey at once. You could even buy a large amount of beef at Costco or a bulk meat market and use part of the beef for a meal and Jerky the rest of it.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes. If you have time, energy, equipment, skill, and desire to cook. Working people this days rarely have it all
madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How much shrinks away? I’ve always suspected jercky to be a scam just don’t know how much
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not much at all. I’ve made salmon, venison, and beef jerky - at most the meat contracts maybe 18 to 20 percent in size. If you have a multi level dehydrator and do it in bulk you can make it very cheap. Bonus is you can season it any way you like. I love teriyaki salmon and super spicy beef with mustard powder and onion.