Meat grinding.
Making snack sticks in dehydrator.
Legg snack stick seasoning 1 tsp prague powder 1 curing salt 19 21mm collagen casings for the sake of convenience i recommend the 21mm size whereas strongly advising against any.
1 4lb beef roast 1 1lb pork roast 7 tbsp a c.
Beef snack sticks in a dehydrator step 1.
I used to stick the jerky directly in the dehydrator at this stage but a co worker baulked at eating my jerky due to salmonella concerns.
You will be looking for a final internal temperature of 158f and this will be difficult to achieve if your dehydrator oven only goes to 155f.
I start out low around 145 to 150 degrees for an hour then turn the temperature up to 170 degrees and continue to cook until the snack sticks reach an internal temperature of 150 degrees.
Meat grinding stage one.
In order to keep the cost of making these snack sticks down we look for bargains on beef.
Doing this to your snack sticks is going to make for a very dry product.
Be sure before you start that the meat is cooled to at least 30 degrees fahrenheit.