Manliness
The Art of
By Brett & Kate McKay, courtesy of artofmanliness.com
How to Make the
Best Beef Jerky in the World
Editor's Note: Beef jerky is a great snack for
long haul truck drivers, so we wanted to share
a recipe from Tim Ferriss' new book, The Four
Hour Chef that is courtesy of
www.artofmanliness.com
An Introduction to
Dehydrating Food
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Dehydration is all about removing
water from food. Doing this helps to
preserve the food (bacteria need water)
and concentrate flavor. It's a common
misconception that you need heat to
dehydrate food. But low humidity, not
heat, is the driving force behind dehydration. Warming the air surrounding
the food helps keep it dry, but if the air
doesn't move, the food will stay wet. So
when dehydrating food in the kitchen,
make certain that air can freely circulate
around it.
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Sidenote: You can achieve the same
preservation of dehydration by leaving
the water in food but making it unavailable to bacteria. Just add substances
like sugar and salt, which bind to water
molecules and lock them away. Lox
(salt-cured salmon) and salted butter are
safe to keep at room temperature for this
reason—but unsalted butter is not!
The Best Jerky in the World
Sometimes a survival skill isn't just
about preparing for hard times. Six-time
New York Times best-selling author Neil
Strauss learned this while writing about
apocalypse-proofing your life in his book
Emergency.Yes, learning to preserve
meat was useful. But learning to flavor
meat was an art.
In search of the perfect marinade,
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