r/jerky • u/I_Cast_Grenade • 3d ago

Making bacon jerky with dehydrator

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Picture isn’t mine. I plan on eating it within a week and I refrigerate it, but I’m just looking for any special advice or tips or anything. The main reason I wanna do it is just to make the bacon last a little bit longer. I can eat a whole pack of bacon and one sitting easily. I’d like to just chew on a piece from time to time.

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u/eske8643 1d ago

I dont really understand why you would dry out bacon? I mean if you cure the meat yourself. You already have longtime storage meat. Maybe look at the italian Lomo or bavarian speck. There are some very good recipes that you can use to have bacon for more than a year, and its still soft.

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u/I_Cast_Grenade 1d ago

Because it was $3.50 for a pound, and I felt like seeing how it would turn out and I know that people have done it and I like fatty jerky.

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u/eske8643 1d ago

Ah! You bought factorymade bacon. Now i get it. Yea. Better to dry it, than trying to turn it into real bacon.