Beef Jerky Recipes

Most beef jerky recipes are cooked up by hunters, and for many of us non-hunters the idea of making our own beef jerky never occurs to us. Yet to cook your own beef jerky recipes is so much cheaper, and the taste is out of this world!

Today beef jerky is a popular snack food, though it did not start that way. Jerky recipes were a necessity, not a luxury. People would cook jerky because it would help them survive. If they had a long way to travel in the wilderness, for example, or if they had to find a way to keep meat through the winter, they could use jerky. Preserved meat would be used on ships, by armies, and by travelers because there was no refrigeration.

Nowadays, however, a jerky recipe is a popular way to prepare a delicious – if unhealthy – snack food. Most of the people who cook up a beef jerky recipe are hunters. The best jerky, after all, is made from wild big game. Deer, moose, elk, and other similar animals all make great jerky recipes. It doesn't even occur to most of us non-hunters that we can make our own beef jerky recipe.

Whoever heard of cooking jerky at home, after all? I had been eating Slim Jim jerky for years before I even realized that I could make my own. I wish I'd realized sooner. It is much cheaper to cook your own beef jerky recipe, and the taste is out of this world!

I have been perfecting my beef jerky recipes for several months now, and have impressed a lot of people who were not jerky fans. My mother would not touch the stuff before she tried mine. She thought it was disgusting, oily, and awful. I can understand where she came to that opinion. Most of the store-bought beef jerky is really pretty poor. They've been sitting in plastic bags for months, and have been stuffed so full of artificial preservatives and MSG that most of the original flavor is lost.

The homemade beef jerky recipe, by contrast, preserves the flavor of the meat intact. When you dry the meat and turn it into jerky, it actually intensifies the flavor. Beef jerky recipes are not for people who only like mild food. They often have an intense and gamy flavor. Nonetheless, a lot of people find these beef jerky recipes delicious. Even if you have not enjoyed beef jerky in the past, if you have a chance to try some homemade beef jerky, you should. After all, if you don't like it you don't have to keep eating it. If you do like it, however, you will have found a delicious new treat!