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- From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
- Subject: Re: Beef Jerky questions..!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.232401.211@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:24:01 -0500
- References: <bmaple.0g1m@burner.com> <1992Dec31.025140.25296@news.eng.convex.com>
- Organization: Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
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- In article <1992Dec31.025140.25296@news.eng.convex.com>, oexmann@convex.com (Carla Oexmann) writes:
- > In article <bmaple.0g1m@burner.com> bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple) writes:
- >>I keep seeing this stupid infomercials on this Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator
- >>and how wonderful it is for making beef jerky.
- >>
- >>And it brought something up.. do you really NEED a dehydrator to make jerky,
- >>or is there some 'recipe' of sorts whereby you lie it out in the sun, put it
- >>in the oven, etc. to make beef jerky?
- >
- > In the summer, the attic works beautifully, as does a parked car ( except
- > that it will drive you crazy smelling the jerky the next time you use it.
-
- I wasn't going to bring this up but with all the do-it-outdoors advice I
- am compelled to!
-
- Whatever you do, if you don't use an oven or a drier, you should protect the
- stuff from flies! One book I read (I usually make the stuff in an oven myself)
- recommended using a screened box (with the meat a couple inches away from
- the screen and the screens on the side of the box because if they're on the
- top the flies can still drop eggs on it). It only takes a fly a few seconds
- alone with a piece of meat to turn it into a squirming, maggot-ridden gob of
- putrefaction. Believe me, you don't want to find this out the hard way...
-
- --
- James Harvey
- harvey@iupui.edu
-