• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I used to be almost addicted to beef jerky, especially the smaller store types where it’s made semi-local…until it got to be 29.99 per pound. I love the stuff but will never like it THAT much

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      14 minutes ago

      i always though beef jerky was always expensive, i never bought it. doesnt matter the brand. maybe if you buy storebrand ones like from wf. but rarer ones likey turkey, salmon, venison, wagyu.

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      13 hours ago

      Beef Jerky is so good man. And its actually stupidly easy to make at home… The problem is the beef, more specifically the cost and amount of the beef.

      It takes like 3+ pounds of beef to make one pound of jerky, Which is why it was always pricy, but with beef prices what they are now… i’m surprised anyone can afford to make jerky, much less buy it.

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        13 hours ago

        Can you just buy dehydrated beef so you’re not paying for all that water weight?

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          12 hours ago

          Genius! Buy dehydrated beef, dunk it in some water to hydrate it back into normal beef, then make it into beef jerky! Big beef hates this one simple trick!

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          13 hours ago

          Somewhere along the chain, someone has to buy it and then dehydrated it. You can’t grow a dehydrated cow. Also, dehydrated beef is jerky…