Beef Jerky with a box fan and air filters???

[DocGlock86]

Just seen this on youtube, curious if anyone has tried it?

Oh yeah just skip to 5:00, a lot of blah blah blah in the beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgSCMxttCc

 

[BDBHoover]

Interesting concept

 

[bobbittle]

Alton Brown, host of Good Eats, uses that method to make beef jerky and dried herbs. I've never done it but the science behind it is sound. Commercial food dehydrators cook the food more than dry it out.

 

[mrjarrell]

http://youtu.be/wLCmxKs4oXU

http://youtu.be/dfI0NKl-Kq0

Alton did it better.

 

[CathyInBlue]

More Alton Brownish DIY goodness:
Magic Smoke: Welcome to the Smoke House

 

[williamnewman1]

other than me buying a really nice dehydrator at a yard sale for $5 , interesting concept

 

[PistolBob]

I have my original Ronco food dehydrator that I bought, close to 20 years ago. I would imagine it has dried nearly a ton of assorted jerky, and two or three times that amount of fruits and veggies. The air filter thing looks pretty cool...you can buy a box fan for about $15 at Walmart, and a couple of filters for $8 or $9...or you can buy food dehydrators of the round plastic variety at Big Lots and Wallyworld for about 20 clams or less.

Are the filter fibers edible? Aren't some of them made with fiberglass?

I'll stick with my Ronco...now where did I put that "Hair in a Can" spray...

 

[nsolimini]

How my aunt makes hers... I love it

 

[ArmedRPh]

YES!! I have done this a couple of times. I followed Alton's recipe and directions. Delicious and it did keep for a couple of weeks (i'm sure it would have kept longer, but I ate it all.) A few suggestions...he suggests in a later episode to source "silicone dehydrator shelf liners" to keep the meat directly off of the filter. I couldn't find any cellulose filters, so I did end up using fiberglass filters, consequently I spent a bit of time afterwards picking fibers off of the jerky. PIA job if you can avoid it. The liners would have prevented this no matter which filter you used. My other suggestion is to trim the meat of all the fat you can. After the drying, any chunks of fat have a rather unpleasant texture in the mouth.
He does talk about how this process doesn't use any heat, so you don't get any of the "cooked" flavors in the meat and it does have a different, and quite excellent flavor and texture from any hot-dried jerky. Enjoy

 

[Kedric]

Dang it... now I am craving some jerky.

y'all suck.

 

[Westside]

http://youtu.be/wLCmxKs4oXU

http://youtu.be/dfI0NKl-Kq0

Alton did it better.

Beat me two it. I have tried it and it works.

 

[PistolBob]

Kroger has 3.25 oz bags of jerky on sale for $3.50...I saw them at lunch and I have already scarfed mine. The Pepper Jerky is HOT.

Lowes has the cellulose air filters.

 

[DocGlock86]

I'm gonna try it tonight/tomorrow. I'll post pics and review when done. Anybody have a decent tasted and tested recipes? If not I'll just use the one from my first post.

ITS JERKY TIME!!!