Yes- it’s over 20 years old, but it’s my favorite. A real classic.
Those things are the best!
Agree. I’ve tried others but always go back to the nesco. I have 2, each with 4 trays. Most of the time I stack 8 trays under one dryer, and it works perfectly. 8 trays will hold about 7-8lbs of jerky meat. I saw a few years back the new ones had timers, I thought about upgrading, but bought a cheap digital timer instead, so I could stick with old faithful.
I have the cabelas delux one. It’s okay. My brother has a nesco. When mine dies I’m buying a nesco
I bought a Cabela's dehydrator to make jerky, more for the dogs than me, our weekly treat costs were through the roof. I buy a 10 lb tube of ground beef at Wal Mart and use 5 lb at a time.
5 lb ground beef
1 teaspoon Prague #1 powder
1/2 bottle teriyaki marinade
1/4 cup brown sugar
liquid smoke
Worcestershire sauce
Ground turkey makes lousy jerky, ground venison is pretty good.
Before & After:
Wow, this was outstanding in the dehydrator and was terrible failure in the smokehouse. Some won't stay together as sticks and some dried out too much. Maybe it would work in one of those Bradley or little chef smokers, but it just did not cook, or dry, the same.
I got two gallon bags of hard crap that will be dog treats. Some we are saving as jerky, but its so soft I am afraid it will crumble being thawed out. My daughter said it still tastes good and crushed a bunch into sandwich bags and we will try it as crumbles in scrambled eggs.
if you do ground beef you need to get the 93% lean , and it's still a little oily .5 lbs. fills my 10-rack Cabela's dehydrator. I add half a bottle of teriyaki sauce, 1/3 cup brown sugar, Worcestershire, liquid smoke and Prague powder. I buy 10 lb tubes of ground beef at Wal mart, prep half and freeze half. Ground turkey's not so good, ground venison's OK but beef is better. Since most of it is prepared as dog treats, I'll sometimes drop the brown sugar and always forgo the spices others use.