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I bought a semi professional meat slicer , and a decent dehydrator. Now I make my own beef jerky and saving tons.
I've read several reviews that suggest DIY beef jerky is only slightly cheaper, and it's a surprising amount of work per pound. The TL;DR of those reviews was that it's just not worth it.
Has that not been your experience? I love to eat it but it's pretty expensive.
My dad used to make beef jerky, it was shit ton of work and he would buy expensive cuts of meat. So it was just as expensive.
It was great jerky though...
With the right tools it takes very little time
It was a lot of work without the weight tools. It takes me about 5 min to cut meat, prepare marinate .. Then next day about 5 min to set dehydrator. The advantages? is variety of flavors, no bs chemical, volume. I buy a full round beef for 30 bucks at Costco and that makes the equivalent of about 70 dlls of packaged beef jerky.