Deer Jerky

[Buck_Hunter]

We have lot's of ground up deer from various deer. When we were moose hunting, one of the guys had brought up some deer jerky that he made from a dehydrator, ground deer, and jerky seasoning. He just mixed the seasoning with the deer, then used a rolling pin, flattened it out to 1/4" thick, cuts it into strips, put it on a pan and in the dehydrator. Since we do not have a dyhydrator, he said we can do it in our oven, Anyone make deer jerky this way? If so, any recipes and how do you exactly make it in an oven, temp, cooking time?

Thanks,

Matt

[RICHARDCatdaddy]

Never done it in a oven,but let me ask a couple folks,maybe I will come up with something for you.

[Buck_Hunter]

Thanks a lot Richard!

[KwackWacker]

Heat your oven on the lowest setting for bake (mine is 180) and wedge a wadded up piece of aluminum foil in the top of the door so that it will stay open. Lay the jerkey on a piece of aluminum foil on the top rack and leave on over night. That's how we do it. I don't have one particular recipe because everytime i make it, it's a little different.

[Manitobawoj]

Made a bunch of goose jerky that way turns out great and the house smells yummy!

[Tony204ing]

Made a bunch of goose jerky that way turns out great and the house smells yummy!

I dont remember the recipe but the first thing i thought of when i seen this topic is when i was a kid we made some in the oven and the house smelled like it for a week.

[warlocke]

when we do deer jerkey we do it in the oven, its better than in the hydrator imo.

what we do is take tooth picks, run it through the meat, and then hang it from the rack. but we use pieces of steak that we didnt cook and such, like we opend a pack of 4 steaks but only fixed 2, the other 2 become jerky lol.

[Bushie Jackman]

I use a dehydrator, started out using a round type that can be purchased at wal-mart. I don't like ground jerky, but to each his/her own. This recipe will make you want to jerky out your whole deer, except for the back-straps.

Cut my deer meat into strips about an 1/8" to 1/4" thick
Place strips into large bowl (4lbs)
Add: 1 large bottle soy sauce
1 bottle liquid smoke
Hot sauce to taste
1 large bottle worchester shire sauce
2 tblsp black pepper
2 tbsp onion powder & onion salt
2 tbsp garlic powder & salt
2 tbsp Italian seasoning mix
Let deer meat marinate for 3 days in fridge. Take out of fridge and lay on round racks, so as the jerky strips are not touching on the rack. Usually takes about 6 hours to dehydrate. depending on your dehydrator. Check occassionally, meat should be bendable but not breakable when done.
ENJOY!

[BBQ Bob]

The other thing you can do is mix ground deer with Jimmy dean pork sausage, 1:1 ratio. This makes great jerky and gives it a little fat content. I have been doing this for years and people love it. I smoke mine over charcoal at 140° F for about 6 hours.

BBQ Bob