Eye of round jerky

Sliced up some eye of round roast for turning into jerky.

Recipe as follows...

4.5 pounds eye of round roast with fat trimmed off
2 quarts water
1/2 cup coarse kosher salt
1/4 cup granulated onion
1/4 cup granulated garlic
1/4 cup Tia Rita's green chili salt blend
1/4 cup coarse black pepper
1/2 cup honey
5 grams pink salt


Cured 4 days, then smoked with hickory at 130 for about 24 hours.

Turned into 1.5 pounds of jerky.

blazinfire said:

Nice lookin Jerky! Nice recipe! What did you make it in? I wanna try making jerky in my offset smoker. Haven't decided If i wanna try to hang it from the grill grates or just make it on top.

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Low heat provided by my Masterbuilt electric smoker. Smoke provided by a Chargriller grill set up to burn wood chunks and ducted into the side of the Masterbuilt. The Chargriller is actually a small grill for wood or charcoal that can be used as an offset firebox on a larger Chargriller grill.