hey everyone Steph Perkins here from beard Bush blend seasonings today I want to show you how to make jerky with our seasoning blend today we're making venison jerky which this is cut from the round portion of a whitetail here in Ohio but you can use this recipe for just about any kind of jerky you can make it in neat you can make it in goose pretty elk whatever kind of wild game or you know domestic animal that you want to make jerky out of you can certainly use this recipe so what we're gonna do is I have 12 pounds of meat here it's our magic ratio with our seasoning is one bottle which is 6 ounces for 12 to 13 pounds of meat one ounce of our seasoning will do two pounds so we're gonna go ahead and use Chipotle today and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put the meat in the mixing bowl and then I'm gonna go ahead and add our seasonings to it I also have and have a half of an ounce of pink-tinted cure this will help preserve the meat it's gonna give it a nice red color when we smoked it and I've weighed out 1/2 of an ounce we're gonna ahead go ahead and add that to so what we'll put our meat right in our mixing bowl like that and then we're gonna go ahead and add our tinted cure pink salt and this this pink salt is available online any home butcher store anything like that you can just google pink curing salt this is available in the little 1 ounce pack it's real handy and split it and use it for 12 to 13 pounds of meat at this point we're going to go ahead and add a whole bottle of our chipotle beer to butcher blend seasonings I'm gonna go ahead and put just about half of it in at this point and I'm gonna start giving it a little mix I want it to be evenly distributed throughout the batch so now that I have it mixed up about halfway I'll go ahead and add the rest of the contents of the bottle this is a very simple process anybody can do this at home it's really not difficult and this is gonna make your wild game taste absolutely incredible you can go to the grocery store and pick up a pack of beef jerky or you can make your own from a deer that you harvested and then pass it out to your buddies on the weekends and brag about the awesome jerky you made so as I'm mixing this I'm just making sure that the seasoning is evenly distributed throughout this batch and once I feel that I've got it to a point where I know that all the strips are covered I'm gonna go ahead and stop and as you can see that is what the jerky looks like seasoned with our Chipotle seasoning I'm gonna go ahead and let this rest overnight so it this is a dry rub there's no liquid I'm gonna let it rest overnight and tomorrow we will put this in our hickory smoke house we'll smoke it at about 165 170 degrees for about 6 hours we're gonna take the internal temperature of this jerky to about 165 degrees there is gonna be moisture along with the smoke in our oven just to make sure that the jerky doesn't dry out you can put this in your home smoker your electric smoker you can use a pellet grill you can use a big green egg grill you can use your oven food dehydrator however you want to take this jerky and dry it down to a point where it reaches temperature and it's that the moisture content you feel like you want to be at you can certainly do that at home the other thing is is this is 12 pounds of meat when this cooks down it's gonna lose about 50% of its weight what we're gonna end up with is about 6 to 7 pounds of finished jerky that you can be proud of because you made it yourself