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(82 customer reviews) 56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Not a long term relationship,
March 10, 2011 K. Liang "Da Review Killa" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nesco BJX-5 American Harvest Jumbo Jerky Works Kit (Kitchen)
This is a great product designed to make your ground beef jerky making process easier.
What I like:
The gun itself is very helpful in forming strips and sticks of jerky. The different nozzles allow me to make my jerky into whatever shape I like. The gun is easy to use and quite precise. All you have to do is load it with seasoned ground beef and squeeze it out. You can control the length of the jerky. It even makes a pleasant clicking sound as you watch your neat strips/sticks of jerky come out from the other end. I would not know how to form ground beef otherwise. Your hand WILL get tired after a while, but that is why we have two hands =)
I LOVE the seasoning & cure packets that came with it. They were delicious, and make your jerky taste exactly like store bought stuff. They give you a good amount, too. Enough to make 5-10 pounds of jerky depending on your taste. After finishing them I decided to mix my own cure & seasoning by buying salt cure and...Read more
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Too Easy!,
December 12, 2008 Kenneth R. Kadan "Largeman" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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If you or someone you know loves beef jerky and you also love to save money on this wonderful treat - then look no further because this is the extruder you want. Simply purchase ground sirloin with a 3% to 5% fat content, mix in the included two seasoning packets for each pound of beef you use, shove the meat into the extruder, pull the triger and BAM you've just made your jerky strips. I use the superb Nesco dehydrador and in five hours I have turned four pounds of sirloin into many, many strips of excellent beef jerky. Get this kit and make the jerky you love quickly and conveniently. Highly recommended. Enjoy.
88 of 106 people found the following review helpful
Never as easy as it looks...,
August 28, 2009 Ana Mardoll (United States) - See all my reviews
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Nesco Jerky Kit BJX-5 / B001795P3K
I purchased this for use with my Nesco FD-75PR 700-Watt Food Dehydrator, but despite the glowing reviews on Amazon, I personally did not find this jerky gun very easy to use.
To start with, if you just load this jerky gun with ground beef right out of the package, you will find that the gun clogs instantly - there isn't enough pressure to force the ground beef through. If you soak the ground beef first in liquid (like, for example, soy sauce) and load it into the gun and press the trigger... the liquid will be forced out, the ground beef will stay in the gun, and another clog will result. In fact, the *only* way to get the ground beef to come out of the tube in strips is to puree it to a liquid beforehand in a food processor, blender, or electric mixing bowl.
Once you've...Read more
