Bushcraft and Survival Skills

How to primitively dry meat to make jerky for use in long term wilderness survival.

MAKING JERKY
Modern store bought jerky is not real jerky. It is too thin, too small, too soft, and is often preserved with chemicals. Real homemade jerky is thicker, longer, and very stout! It is tough! To eat real jerky, you "worry" off a chunk with your teeth -- if you can -- or cut off a "flake" with a pocket knife, then soak the "flake" in your cheek for awhile until

Preserving meat requires energy to be expended. Very simple concept. It is the method of using that energy that is of interest to us. The use of electrical energy via freezing is the most common form of meat preservation today -- and the most fragile, as we can expect the