Is it cheaper to make beef jerky at home?

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asked Apr 2, 2020 in Recipes by witnit (300 points)
Is it cheaper to make beef jerky at home?

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answered Apr 2, 2020 by linda (29,790 points)
It is cheaper to make your own beef jerky at home.

However while it's cheaper to make your own beef jerky at home it's only slightly cheaper and you have to factor in your time to make the beef jerky.

However with homemade beef jerky you can make the beef jerky with the ingredients you want to make it with and make it taste the way you want.

You also know what actually went in the beef jerky when made at home.

There is about a 5 percent savings of making beef jerky at home.

Jerky is expensive because the jerky takes more meat to make then it actually looks like.

The jerky also has to go through a curing process which takes time and money so the jerky has to be more expensive than other meats because of the extra costs.

With beef jerky the beef that is used to make beef jerky is about 60 percent water content so when the beef is dehydrated the beef gets smaller.

So it takes more beef to make the amount of jerky that is needed.

To make 1 lb of beef jerky it takes about 2.5 lbs of beef to make the 1 lb of beef jerky.

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