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3-8 lbs of meat strips
- Soy Sauce: 1 cup (depends on meat amount)
- Brown Sugar: 3/4 Cup
- Dark Molasses: 1/4 cup
- Onion Powder: 1 tsp
- Garlic Powder: 1 tsp - not fresh - use powder
- Black Pepper: 1 tsp
- White Pepper: 2 tsp
- Cayenne Pepper: 2 tsp
The recipe is based on one called River City
Beef Jerky and you can add or modify to taste. Mix
together and add your meat strips overnight or atleast 2 hours.
The Primo is set up using 4 firebricks.
These are ceramic bricks used in fireplaces and wood stoves and can
take high heat. They shield the food and allow longer slower cooking
without fear of burning your food. The 4 bricks are covered with foil
to catch some drippings and a 2nd grid is placed on top and the meat
is piled on it.
Start with 3-5 lb beef brisket (this is a 5lb brisket flat) that I
trimmed of fat then sliced thick.
Let the strips set in the marinate for 2 hrs to overnight and cook in
a mound at 190-220 deg for 2 hours. Then flip and rotate the meat and
cook another 2 hours.
I let the jerky cook at 190-220 overnight with a 3am check and a
minor vent adjustment. At 6am I picked the strips apart and finished
cooking at 225-250 for the last hour. Total time was 12.5 hours.
This is really easy and the kids love it. Brisket works well and is
chewy, top round, sirloin, chuck and most any lean cut of meat will work. |