How to make air-dried beef? Is it raw beef or cooked beef?

Air-dried beef, also known as beef jerky, originated in Inner Mongolia and is also known as Genghis Khan's military food! But there are many kinds of beef jerky on the market now!

The practice of beef jerky is actually relatively simple!

1: generally choose the hind leg meat of cattle, remove the fascia and cut into strips!

2: Mix ginger, onion, sugar and salt into sauce, and marinate beef strips 12 hours!

3. Hang the beef strips on the shelf to dry, usually 10-20 days. At this time, 60% of the water will be lost!

4: Beef strips, hanging in the oven and roasting with charcoal fire for about three hours!

PS: Generally 1 kg fresh beef can get 2-4 ounces of beef jerky.

Let's talk about the fake beef jerky on the market first!

The first type: synthetic beef! This kind is all handmade, and there is no meat at all!

Mix konjac flour, salt, glutamic acid, gluten, soybean protein, flour, trisodium phosphate, beef essence and calcium carbonate, then add butter and a small amount of beef juice to make slurry, and then stretch and press it into pieces! The beef jerky made in this way has the same thickness, and the most important thing is that it is very cheap!

The second type: change to pork and pretend to be beef!

After adding water to pork, cook it with cow head and beef offal. Picking it up after 78% maturity, cooling and shrinking. Then add essence and pigment, and dry to make beef jerky! Isn't the picture below beautiful? Unfortunately, it's fake beef!

The third type: dried yak meat made of duck meat!

Cut duck meat into strips or blocks, add red pigment, paraffin, industrial salt and beef essence, bind and press with TG enzyme, freeze and cut into strips and air dry!

How to buy authentic beef jerky?

1: Look at the price! A catty of beef can get 2-4 pieces of beef jerky. The normal price of beef jerky is 90- 180 yuan/kg. While the dried yak meat is basically maintained at 230-300 yuan/kg. If it is lower than these prices, genuine businesses will lose money!

2: Look at the fleshy fiber and shape! Real beef has different fibers in different parts, and its shape will never be the same for all meat, and there are differences! If you see that the beef jerky sold by others is the same length and thickness, then look carefully!

3: Taste! Natural spicy fragrance. It doesn't smell like an abnormal chemical!