Laura Paris wrote:
>After years of interest in trying this, I finally made my first batch today!
>I used coconut butter, since there's no way I accumulate enough other
>appropriate animal fat to use.
I buy suet. Suet from grass fed bison I think is best.
> So I made beef jerky (totally unspiced) and then ground it in the food
> processor; however it didn't grind up as small as I thought it would, and
> the machine was going crazy.
A blender does better. Like the $95 Kitchenaide on Chop speed. And the meat
needs to be very, very dry. It is the dryness that keeps it, and what makes
it safe to eat.
Don.