Jerky makers are getting more and more impressed with our taste reviews. Our taste reviews have slowly evolved since this jerky web site started in January 2014, where we are always striving to improve. For nearly the first two years, Paul and I would meet together to do these taste reviews. Around late 2016, Stéphane periodically started partaking in our taste reviews. Since November 2017 Read More
1,200 Jerky Bags
The jerky bag collection has now officially reached over 1,200 jerky bags, with each bag being unique. After making homemade jerky starting in 2007, I started collecting jerky bags for ideas on what ingredients to use on my own homemade jerky. That more turned out to be an exercise of what ingredients not to use. Thankfully, the jerky industry has somewhat cleaned up Read More
22 Jerky Flavors Submitted
As a jerky reviewer you do not always know what flavors to expect from a jerky maker submission. Franco and Patti Fonseca from Smokehouse Jerky Co. with 22 jerky flavors submitted for review in one delivery blows away the previous record of 17 flavors.
At Jerky Ingredients we tend to average publishing three jerky reviews a Read More
200 Jerky Brands Reviewed
The next phenomenal feat to recognize here at Jerky Ingredients is 200 Jerky Brands reviewed to date. It took over 4 1/2 years for us to finally review 200 jerky brands. We tend to take our time with these jerky reviews, exploring every detail in depth. This jerky review process is a marathon and not a sprint. As always, it is our pleasure to review submitted jerky. As of today Read More
700 Jerky Tags Created To Date
The next fun milestone to celebrate here at Jerky Ingredients is 700 Jerky Tags created to date (June 24/2018), including 60 Jerky Categories. As a basic description, a Jerky Tag is descriptive, and a Jerky Category is generalized. There is a maximum of around only 100 Jerky Categories available, but Jerky Tags are unlimited.
According to Google Analytics, the 7th most visited page on our jerky review web site is Read More
400 Jerky Flavor Names Reviewed To Date
Our next milestone to celebrate is a fun fact. While it took almost 4 ½ years to accomplish this latest feat, we have reviewed over 400 jerky flavor names to date. For any jerky maker thinking of adding a new flavor name, our Jerky Flavors page is a great place to start for getting ideas on jerky flavor names.
This Jerky Flavors page is broken down into jerky flavor tags, and then the actual jerky flavor names. A jerky flavor tag as a general rule is created when Read More
600 Jerky Reviews Published To Date
We are excited and proud as ever. It took nearly 4 ½ years to accomplish this latest milestone, we have 600 jerky reviews published to date and counting. When we first started this jerky review website in January 2014, our jerky collection was approximately 600 bags, and it has now grown to more than 1,200 unique bags.
After all this time, we occasionally have no other choice but to implement temporary jerky submission freezes. This allows us to get caught up with our Read More
400 Jerky Bags Submitted For Review To Date
We here at Jerky Ingredients are proud of this accomplishment, where only one other person in the world can make this claim. To date, we have received over 400 jerky bags submitted for review from jerky makers across 7 different countries.
We have always viewed jerky submissions as a win-win situation. Jerky makers get free publicity apart from the wholesale cost of the jerky itself and shipping charges. For us, we are given the privilege Read More
Jerky Ingredients Mascot Lexi
In March 2014, my family picked up our female Whippet puppy near London, Ontario, Canada, which we named Lexi. Never wasting an opportunity to explore new jerky brands, I found jerky at Bob’s Ultimate Meats at a flea market in London. Ever since then, Lexi has now sampled hundreds of jerky flavors, making our Whippet Lexi the current world leader in all dog breeds. Lexi is the official mascot of Jerky Ingredients.
Many of the early taste reviews between Read More
Guest Jerky Reviewers
As of late November 2017, we have a new guest jerky reviewer with Stéphane “Clerc Kent” Leclerc. Since January 2014, I have been writing all of the taste reviews. In June 2014, my cousin Paul “The Rekking Ball” Rekker joined me in doing the taste reviews. For each taste review, Paul would send me his taste review. Using both of our combined opinions, I, Mark “Jerky Us” Read More