/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9776006
This. Pre-trimmed and sliced top round can be had for a good price at costco, it's where I buy all my jerky meat. That said, it's expensive for a reason. You're losing about 50-60% of weight when dehydrating beef, plus factoring in things like the soy sauce, spices and just plain time, it's not surprising it's getting more expensive, especially with the rising cost of Beef. I've been experimenting with Turkey Jerky more often lately due to the cheaper costs of turkey meat. Just the bitchy part is getting boneless breasts without having to special order them from a butcher.

>>9653136
Honestly, your best bet would be to simply dry them separately. They dry at different rates, and dried tomatoes do wonderfully in a dehydrator. Especially high quality romas, the end result comes out in a wonderful combination of sweet and savory, no seasoning required. Only downside is you'd need a shitton of tomatoes to make any real quantity of Dried Tomato pieces. The ratio of fresh to dried is really bad, like we're talking 3-4lbs of fresh tomatoes to 1lb of dried.

Jerky will at least get you a roughly 2/1 ratio of fresh beef to dried beef weight so that's solid at least.