RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

look at www.sausagemaker.com. They have all kinds and very good quality. A friend of mine has their 25 pounds electricsausage stuffer which is awesome.

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

i bought this one from cabelas. i have the one from wal-mart and it does work good but i make every deer i shoot into jerky....all of it. and i had to fill the one from wal-mart night and day for a week to do one deer. this dehydrator does about 15lbs of meat in 5 hrs. much more efficient for the amount of jerky i make. definitly worth the money


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RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

LEM Excalibur dehydrators work great! very high quality for your $$

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

I bought a NescoAmerican Harvest Snackmaster at the farm store for $39.
It is the 425 watt version with the motor on the top. It works great! Don't even have to rotate like on alot of the other brands. I can do about 5lbs (raw weight) at a time. And you can add 2 more trays if you want. $15


chris

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

Use your oven. Its free (besides for the electricty or gas). Set it at 145 deg. and bake jerky for 8-10 hours or until jerky has reached desired dryness. No need to go out and buy a dehydrator, which will sit in a closet for most of the year. Also your oven can hold a lot more jerky than most dehydrators.

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

The Jerky Machine
Try this one.

L.E.M. Products 10-Tray Stainless Steel Dehydrator
$299. and worth every penny!

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

Ovens work real well in making jerky,get you some of that metal screen type material that comes in a roll thats used to cover rain gutters, lay it across your center oven rack and make sure you have one of those handy oven thermometers set inside your oven ,set your oven so it reads no higher than 145-150 degrees, thenput themeat on the screen.

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

The dehydrator I bought was only 39 bucks. And now that I have it I'm making all kinds of stuff. Dried apples, bananna chips, some dried fish, etc. Plus the jerky. Now I have lots of good, healthy, high energy snacks to take out hunting!
I do know what you mean about sitting in the closet most of the year though. That's why I decided to make lots of other stuff with mine (and it was a cheap one). So I get plenty of use out of it. There's no way I'd go out and spend $300 for one...JMO.

chris

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

He did say 40-50 #s of Jerky. Can't do it in personal oven. Still go with the
Jerky Machine Bass Pro item. You still have other cheaper units at Bass Pro.
But this is the Personal/Commercial quality for the price.
And you can get seasonings too.
Eric

RE: Deer Jerky Dehydrator
 

Nesco American Harvester with the tempature control, just picked one up last week, made a batch of jerly it was great!!!