Jerky Reviews Published To Date: 1184
I started making homemade beef jerky in 2007. Around 2011, my cousin Paul and I spent over $5,000 researching opening a jerky company for a couple of years. We could not develop a viable business plan, and neither of us was willing to quit our full-time job, so I officially started the www.jerkyingredients.com jerky review website in January 2014. Plus, our Filipino wives were totally against launching a new jerky brand. Paul joined the jerky taste reviews in June 2014, and my co-worker Stéphane in 2016.
Jerky is not nearly as popular in Canada than it is in the United States of America. Generally, the further South and West you go in the USA, the more popular jerky becomes. California easily leads all USA states in the number of jerky brands.
Jerky Ingredients
For ideas on what ingredients to use in my homemade jerky, a jerky bag collection began in 2007. That became an exercise in what ingredients not to use in jerky. Jerky ingredient lists, in general, have improved appreciably since 2007, a continuing positive trend in the jerky industry.
Jerky Ingredients reviewed: 974
Taste Reviews
Our taste reviews have evolved. For a while now, Paul and Stéphane have written their taste reviews. I then conclude the review with my comments on Paul’s and Stéphane’s taste reviews, my opinion on the jerky, and the official taste rating.
Paul Rekker Taste Review Counter: 428
Stéphane Leclerc Taste Review Counter: 342
JERKY SHRINE
The debut of the JERKY SHRINE was unplanned in January 2019. Instead of hiding all this jerky paraphernalia in binders, I displayed these jerky brands. The JERKY SHRINE has been well received to date. I would never have guessed how much fun it is to be a curator.
www.jerkyingredients.com/tag/jerky-shrine
Jerky Shrine Brands On Display: 115
History
Operating a jerky review website (I hate calling it a blog) has been a fun, challenging, ongoing educational experience that is surprisingly time consuming. I was a former web application developer for over 15 years. I taught myself how to add the programming language PHP to the jerky reviews and website. Each jerky review is written in HTML, utilizing a custom MySQL database. This infrastructure gives excellent flexibility, for example, the Jerky Tags/Categories and Jerky Counters pages.
Us
Contact jerkyingredients@gmail.com if you have any questions or suggestions or want to submit your jerky for review.
In the photograph below, Mark Jurrius is in the middle. Paul Rekker is wearing the baseball cap on the left, and Stéphane Leclerc is on the right. The other photograph is our Jerky Ingredients mascot Lexi, born in 2013. She is a Whippet, and she has tried over 700 jerky flavors. Whippets are not to be trusted off-leash. If I ever lose control off leash with Lexi, I say ‘JERKY?’ for her to return.
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