Jerky Reviews
Note: A new update has been published with our April 2022 One Pound Beef Jerky Price Ranges, where the price of beef jerky went up $5 per pound.
A user comment on our Jerky Price Range (July 2017) post prompted me to do some research. The comment posted was a question asking how much one pound of beef jerky should cost. Well, surprisingly, not all that many jerky makers even sell their jerky in Read More
A massive shout out to John Bailey from Beefy Boy’s, Nina Marie Cattaneo from Ray’s Own Brand, Dustyn Dahn from Empire Jerky, Alexander Halasz from MTL Jerky, Evan Arndt from Stoney Point Inc., Clarice Owens from Healthy Oceans Seafood Company Inc., Mike Merwin from Crazy Mike’s Beef Jerky, Franco Fonseca from Smokehouse Jerky Co., and Jeff Richards from Read More
Due to the latest generous jerky submission from Stoney Point Inc. of seventeen unique bags, the JERKY SHRINE reached exactly 1,400 bags. Over six years later in doing these jerky reviews and the demand is overwhelming. There never seems to be any shortage of new jerky makers debuting also in an already crowded jerky market. Read More
While it took about 6 years and a month, we have now published 800 jerky reviews to date. In early 2019, we moved down to publishing two reviews a week on average instead of three or four reviews. That change caused significant delays between reviews for jerky makers. Not that any of the jerky makers complained, but we want do these jerky review in an timely fashion. At the end of the day, it Read More
It took a little over six years to review $6,000 worth of jerky. The single biggest complaint about jerky is the high price. Of course the best way to get around the expensive price of jerky is to make your own homemade jerky. However, even homemade jerky is not all that cheap. Keep in mind the meat loses 50 – 75% of its weight due to moisture evaporating during the drying process. That’s Read More
In ways it seems like yesterday that the world’s first Jerky Shrine debuted. Today, we are celebrating the one year anniversary of the Jerky Shrine. The Jerky Shrine has been very well-received, even more so than I had anticipated. What started out with the two Jerky Shrine cork boards, which started filling out fast facilitating a need to create a Jerky Shrine Wall plastered in cork Read More
It took just a little over 6 years to celebrate creating 800 Jerky Tags here at www.jerkyingredients.com. For the record there are 63 jerky categories created now, where WordPress has a limit of around 100 categories. As a basic description, a Jerky Tag is descriptive, and a Jerky Category is generalized. Jerky tags are unlimited in the popular web content management system; Read More
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
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
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