Making venison jerky

Making venison jerky is a pretty simple process once you have all the required ingredients and a good dehydrator. You can make a dehydrator to use when making venison jerky as long as you follow some simple rules. Some simple steps are mix the marinade well, partly freeze the meat, slice across the grain, soak in the marinade over night, keep the dehydrator temperature down, check the process regularly and move the strips around to keep the drying even. Follow these simple rules and you'll produce such a good quality product you may never buy jerky again.

Deer jerky marinade

A good deer jerky marinade will take into account the different flavour of the deer meat compared with good quality beef, white meat or fish jerky. You can find a good deer jerky marinade by searching online or browsing your local library for a good recipe book. Typically they will include spices and sugar or salt. The sugar and salt are the curative products which are necessary to the dehydration and long term storage process. The dehydrating process on it's own usually isn't sufficient for the jerky to keep. Getting a good marinade is an important step to making venison jerky.