NEW! Revolutionary Jerky Set-up

Pakak

I just got back from Eggor's a bit ago. He has come up with a setup for making jerky that’s very innovative. He’d asked me to come over and take some pics awhile back so I could post them on the forum for him. I’m very impressed with the rack he made. Seems like it makes jerky production a lot less of a chore! I have to admit, I’ve never tried it before, mostly because it seemed too intimidating. I’ll post these then have him come on and give a better explanation of what he’s done.


Here’s Eggor skewering the meat. He used buffalo, marinated overnight, which was very lean and looked perfect for making jerky.

<img src=http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/pakak/01-Prep.jpg&gt;


This shows the bottom grate he made for the rack to set on.

<img src=http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/pakak/02-Grate.jpg&gt;


Here’s the rack he fabbed, partially loaded with the skewers.

<img src=http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/pakak/03-Rack.jpg&gt;


Finally, the rack fully loaded on the bottom and nearly loaded on the top.

<img src=http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/pakak/04-Full_Load.jpg>[p]

Borders

Pakak, first of all, Eggors' whole set up(table, etc) looks sweet. Second, looks like there's nothing sitting on the bottom grate. It all seems to be sitting on the fire ring.

Pakak

I think I know what you're asking ...[p]Look at the second picture. What I'm calling the bottom grate slides between the fire ring and the firebox, thus it's suspended above the coals. The jerky rack then sets on top of this grate.

Pakak

Here's how Eggor is going to make his own lump. [p]Note the bucket is setting on the lower grate, inserted between the firebox and fire ring.[p]
<img src=http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/pakak/05-Mini_Lump.jpg&gt;

eggor

Pakak,
ok, first things first, the bald spot is eggors fault, and the messed hair is my wifes fault, but it was fun. [p]The story goes like this. [p]Last Christmas I was in sort of a dilema. Present for the wife. She had been wanting patio furniture, including adirondack chairs, so off to patio furniture store i go and begin to eyeball a brand new shiny stainless bbq that the manager wanted to unload. It could be run on natural gas witch i had already ran a line for. I was SET. Then i asked the question, why are they trying to get rid of that Q? 'cause were just selling the bge from now on and were tired of people asking about this thing and we want to get it out of the store'. OK you know the rest of the story. [p]Bought the bge for a christmas present for the wife and lived to tell about it. I skated on that one because 'the food tastes goood and I do half the cooking'.[p]Next, I really like jerky. Not that processed stuff. But like injuns used to make. Pakak told me he thinks he knows what they used for fire, somthin bout buffalo cakes. dunno. [p]Down to business, fingers gettin tired. The framework is made of .250 stainless that I bent with a vise and propane torch, just heat it until it bends. It measures 15 inches long, 5 1/2 inches tall, and 10 inches wide. When you heat the stainless round stock it will bend about half an inch from were it is clamped in the vise, so keep that in mind. Might want to do a couple practice bends to figure out what I am talking about. The extra rack on top is not necessary unless you plan on doing a whole lot of jerky at one time. That rack would require that it is welded in place. The top rack measures 4 inches tall and 10 inhes wide spaced 9 inches apart. This setup is configured for a large.[p]I prefer buffolo, elk, or deer for the meat, just becuase it is so lean. Use whatever recipe you like for the seasoning. I prefer to cut the meat in thicker than norm @ 1/2 x 1/2 x however long with the grain of the meat. If you use the the setup in the pictures, I finished up 6 lbs of buffalo in +/- 4hrs @ 250 degrees. yeilded about 2 lbs. Just so you know the bottom rack for the jerky can probably do up to 10 lbs of raw meat, without using the top rack, depending on how thick and long the strips are.[p]OK, the fingers are realy crampin'up. I still had to get those adirondack chairs finished up. Now that i spent all the money on the egg and accessories, I have to build those chairs from scratch, been jenerating a lot of scrap pieces when I caught the whiz's post on generating your own lump. Just had to try it seeing that those chairs are mid from the same wood as 'wicked good'. Should know tomorrow how well the formula works trying to do lump in the eggor.[p]pakak said he would post some pictures to help show how some of this is done.(I couldn't figure out how to get the film in his camera so he offered to help)[p]Also, read the post that R.R. passed away. My heart goes out to the family, he was a good man.[p][p]

eggor

Borders,
thanks on the compliment, you are correct, read the following posts, hopefuly we get this clear enough so you can do this eggors way. It really is pretty easy.