Making jerky with ground beef

I make my jerky out of beef London broil. I would use deer if my husband killed one during hunting as most hunters do during hunting season. If I had a jerky gun I probably would make ground meat jerky, I use my smoker to make my jerky and would just have to get special mats to put the jerky on.

Here's some talk on ground beef jerky.

I love making ground beef jerky. It's a cheap way to make a quick batch trying different ingredients. Some things I've found making gr. beef jerky - buffalo is waaaaaaay too dry! Oy, I mean dry!! Believe it or not, the 7% hamburger at Wal-Mart is perfect. Go figure. I tried the high end gr. beef at Whole Foods....it's good, but why pay that $$.

I make about a batch every weekend and test it on my colleagues. Their palettes aren't that refined but I know I've hit on a good ingredient when the bag is gone within a few days. These slobs don't know it, but they're my test kitchen. I'm trying to recreate a flavor I found years and years ago at my G'Pa's gas station. He used to sell candy, chips, and individually packed jerky strips. OMFG! Needless to say, my test kitchen is busy every weekend testing new ingredients and my clueless co-workers couldn't be happier.

To recap: I haven't found ground buffalo to make a good jerky. =[

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