While it took near six years to celebrate this accomplishment, we have now reviewed 500 jerky flavor names to date. That is some serious creativity from the jerky makers. A jerky flavor can come under many different names. For example Sweet & Spicy can be: Sweet & Hot, Sweet ‘n Hot, Hot and Sweet, Hot ‘n Sweet, Hot & Sweet, Sweet and Spicy, Spicy and Sweet, Sweet Hot, Sweet and Read More
Top 20 Jerkies
Easily the most frequent question asked is what is the best jerky. That is a loaded question. Depends if you prefer a soft and tender, or a dry texture, or crispy. A bold flavor or mellow flavor. Sweet or not, spicy or mild. Thick or thin cut jerky. And not to mention biltong. There are so many different factors, and so many different jerky flavors (491 – August 30/2019). Plus there is recency bias. Read More
300 Jerky Shrine Brands
The JERKY SHRINE now houses 300 Jerky Brands!!! What started out as buying jerky bags starting in 2007 for ideas on what ingredients to use on my own homemade jerky has now grown to over 300 Jerky Shrine Brands inside the JERKY SHRINE. That may be 25% of all jerky makers worldwide not including private label jerky brands. Read More
Jerky Ingredients – Jerky Price Ranges Update (August 2019)
As part of our annual commitment to update the cheap, average, and expensive prices in the jerky industry, here is our third annual August 2019 jerky prices update. Our Jerky Price Update (July 2017) and Jerky Price Update (August 2018) posts every month registers in the top 10 pages visited at Jerky Ingredients according to Google Analytics. We appear to have Read More
1,300 Jerky Shrine Bags
The JERKY SHRINE sailed past 1,300 bags over the weekend with seven different jerky maker brand submissions, and another submission due to arrive this week. This JERKY SHRINE that debuted in January 2019 has been well-received. The JERKY SHRINE is ever evolving, with another planned change in the coming months. Read More