Jack Link's Beef Jerky

For those who think you can make a cheaper jerky at home; it's quite difficult. I own a slicer and a weston horizontal machine and after all the effort and minimal cost savings, have reverted back to store bought. What's already been pointed out, when all is said and done, you only yield about 33% of the original roast. So a 10lb roast will yield 3.33lbs of jerky.

With Jack Links, while they sell formed strips and nuggets, the majority of their products are whole strips. To make whole strips at home is going to be the most costly. Also eat/make a lot of it, you're going to be doing a lot of slicing and will need to sharpen your knife often or you can invest in a slicer...When you deal with large roast, there's going to be some unused trimmings.

If you're okay with the jerky gun and using hamburger which is a much different but less costly product you have another factor to worry about, pink slime. It's still around so if you don't want to eat that, then you need to do your homework and you may discover that the great deal on hamburger you've been buying does indeed contain pink slime.

Now there's the ingredients/spices, obvoiusly they're not free and if you buy in bulk you will save more. Most recipes calls for marinading the meat in Worchestershire or Soy sauce. One problem with that stuff is it's smell soaks into your hands, so you either live with the smell, buy gloves or you need to scrub your hands with a slice of lemon to get the smell out. Next with the odor, obviously your kitchen or possibly the whole house is going to smell like a meat locker. Then there's effort and small expense of clean up and the electricity used to create and clean whatever equipment you use.

Temp out of stock..Went with the $17.92 with $4.00 coupon.. Thanks

Quote from Follywood : because it's actually horse meat

Only if you buy it in the EU [wikipedia.org]. LOL!

Actually, horse is pretty good. Used to eat it all the time when I lived in Sardegna (Italy).

Quote from krayziejoe : Can you use the coupon more than once? I want to order more than one, but want the coupon to apply to each lol

Looks like you can as long as it is 2 seperate orders. I was able to do it on the one of each of the nuggets and jerky. Shows "temp.OOS" but it worked.

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Quote from mrredskin : yeah this is the same price as big lots[/QUOTE It is a slick deal to avoid Big Lots. I've only been once and doubt that I will ever go again

ok chief. learn how to quote, too

This jerky is garbage. If you want great jerky, I got this link from another SD user and this jerky is AMAZING. I've made my own jerky and people love it. These guys make mine look bad, and the price is out of this world. And the selection variety is also outstanding. Beef, chicken, turkey, pork, ostrich, venison, buffalo, elk, pheasant, duck, rabbit, kangaroo, and wild boar. The beef, chicken and turkey all run around $13.00 lb. with the more outlandish varieties running around $18-20 lb. Not to mention their flavors will blow your mind. Cherry, chili-cheese, BBQ, pepper, cajun, hellfire, teriyaki, mesquite, hawaiian, honey mustard, etc, etc. Over 50 varieties of jerky. And it comes in 1/2 lb or even 1/4 lb packages so you can try everything to see what you like without spending a ton. AND they accept Pay-Pal! AND they ship to APO/FPO/DPO's so you can send this to service members overseas. Enjoy your new favorite jerky place!
I know I sound like a commercial, but I live in Tn and this store is in Michigan. I'm just a big fan of their jerky!
http://www.dublinstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc

I see the complaints about $13/lb of jerky yet if I buy decent ground beef from the store and make my own, it's going to come out to more than $13/lb.

Quote from nutsaboutgolf : For those who think you can make a cheaper jerky at home; it's quite difficult. I own a slicer and a weston horizontal machine and after all the effort and minimal cost savings, have reverted back to store bought. What's already been pointed out, when all is said and done, you only yield about 33% of the original roast. So a 10lb roast will yield 3.33lbs of jerky. With Jack Links, while they sell formed strips and nuggets, the majority of their products are whole strips. To make whole strips at home is going to be the most costly. Also eat/make a lot of it, you're going to be doing a lot of slicing and will need to sharpen your knife often or you can invest in a slicer...When you deal with large roast, there's going to be some unused trimmings. If you're okay with the jerky gun and using hamburger which is a much different but less costly product you have another factor to worry about, pink slime. It's still around so if you don't want to eat that, then you need to do your homework and you may discover that the great deal on hamburger you've been buying does indeed contain pink slime. Now there's the ingredients/spices, obvoiusly they're not free and if you buy in bulk you will save more. Most recipes calls for marinading the meat in Worchestershire or Soy sauce. One problem with that stuff is it's smell soaks into your hands, so you either live with the smell, buy gloves or you need to scrub your hands with a slice of lemon to get the smell out. Next with the odor, obviously your kitchen or possibly the whole house is going to smell like a meat locker. Then there's effort and small expense of clean up and the electricity used to create and clean whatever equipment you use.

Also the cost of running an oven, dehydrator, or heat gun for hours. I agree with everything said above. Looking at cost, I don't think it's worth making your own. If you like it as a hobby and enjoy the whole process, then that's different.

Quote from werewolfalpha : This jerky is garbage. If you want great jerky, I got this link from another SD user and this jerky is AMAZING. I've made my own jerky and people love it. These guys make mine look bad, and the price is out of this world. And the selection variety is also outstanding. Beef, chicken, turkey, pork, ostrich, venison, buffalo, elk, pheasant, duck, rabbit, kangaroo, and wild boar. The beef, chicken and turkey all run around $13.00 lb. with the more outlandish varieties running around $18-20 lb. Not to mention their flavors will blow your mind. Cherry, chili-cheese, BBQ, pepper, cajun, hellfire, teriyaki, mesquite, hawaiian, honey mustard, etc, etc. Over 50 varieties of jerky. And it comes in 1/2 lb or even 1/4 lb packages so you can try everything to see what you like without spending a ton. AND they accept Pay-Pal! AND they ship to APO/FPO/DPO's so you can send this to service members overseas. Enjoy your new favorite jerky place! I know I sound like a commercial, but I live in Tn and this store is in Michigan. I'm just a big fan of their jerky! http://www.dublinstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc

I'm interested in trying this, but don't want to pay $9 for shipping.

Can't wait until this is OOS so I can say, "The Jerky Store called, and they're running out of YOU."



I'll show myself out.