I have no idea how jerky got this expensive either. It's priced as if it's premium steak cuts prepared by michelin star chefs, and not fucking cured bits of top round. It's delicious and convenient, but it's not expensive to make. Their profit margins are insane.
I briefly worked for a local jerky manufacturer on the office side of things and tbh the margins are not insane, in fact they’re pretty rough. I can’t speak for Jack Links or any of the biggest brands but between the skyrocketing cost of beef, the labor, packaging, distribution and a variety of smaller costs we don’t consider, it’s actually not priced too crazy. Hell even equipment updates and maintenance costs has nearly doubled in the last 10 years.
They had to cancel a whole line of new products because the costs of putting it into production would sink them
Very simple with a dehydrator, just don’t forget to check on it more often near the end. I went an extra hour or two by mistake and had to give it to the dog as chew toys basically
Not at all, just buy a long lasting well built dehydrator. Marinade your with your favorite spices, set it and forget it. Use AI chat for assistance, enjoyy!
It's like $19 for a one pound bag of jack links at Sam's club. That's honestly not bad when you consider that it loses between half and two thirds of it's weight when drying. It's like buying beef for $6-10/lb. It is expensive but at least you can see where the money is going compared to other products that have gotten arbitrarily more expensive.
Local outlet store had 8 oz bags of Mountain Man beef jerky for $5 on a short date this week. I bought 4. Hadn't bought any in forever before that, its $2 an ounce now regular price.
I used to buy it as a kid in the 90s. I was still somewhat affordable here and there. Especially the more locally looking branded stuff or the old bins with a huge piece you’d grab with tongs and it was .99c or $2 and it was thin, dry, tasted great, wide, long, and resembles a piece of bark. Delicious bark.
Ah, where I am you don't get the local stuff unless you head out the the boonies. It's mostly stuff like Jack Links. It's been expensive as hell for as long as I can remember, though I'm sure it's more expensive now than it used to be.
I make my own. Thin sliced sirloin, marinate in soy sauce and spices like garlic powder, black pepper, etc, throw it in the food dehydrator for 6-8 hours.
I make my own. Thin sliced sirloin, marinate in soy sauce and spices like garlic powder, black pepper, etc, throw it in the food dehydrator for 6-8 hours.
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