That jerky looks delicious. I'm going to give your marinade a try as it's different from mine. I buy my meat and eggs directly from farmers. I have two large chest freezers and I buy half cows, and whole pigs and chickens. It's nice and they will butcher it any way that I like. When I do have to go to the store, I do the same as you do, I buy in bulk on sale.
Damn it, I really want some homemade jerky now. lol
For my BBQ I also have a direct line to a butcher who works at the farm to part out the animals to retail butchers. Farm direct is the best. Period. Freaks the Mrs. out though sometimes since I generally get the goods in plastic trash bags rather than hygienic vacuum sealed cuck bags. Lots of blood around too, I like it.
For my smoker I don't generally ever use a marinade or even inject, good beef really just needs salt, pepper and IMHO a bit of paprika on occasion.
Pork and chicken on the other hand are a different story.
Hell yeah, It's awesome. I live in a small village that is pretty tight and we all look out for each other. Just the other day my neighbor gave me some venison, ox and some black bear roasts. I gave him canned apple pie filling, apple butter and spaghetti sauce for it. I think I might use one of the bear roasts to make some jerky this weekend. I've never had black bear, so I'm not sure if that would be any good or not. I just might do half bear and half beef, so I'm not disappointed if I don't like the bear.
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