 let's talk about jerky look at Barnett on it if you're watching this in the future no I'm not an ex-footballer or boyband member that's fallen on hard times we're in the middle of a national lockdown so Barnett has to be a bit unruly until until we can go and get it lobbed off but we're not here for that we're here to talk about all things jerky okay I like real-foot here imagine it with me dramatic music just going over like oh this is a this is what keeping me back this is jerky it's some mushrooms looking forward to getting out on some bigger adventures but until then we're gonna talk about jerky and we're gonna make some and taste test it and it's something that you can do at home with your kids it's something that you can do at home in preparation for your long distance hike so your wild camps or even put it in your bait box for work so jerky is basically just dried meat or fish or whatever it may be it's drying out the meat so it doesn't spoil so you can save it for months on end it's thought to have originated in South America in the 1800s it enabled people to preserve the meat when it was readily available in abundance and then preserve it for times when it was a little more scarce so you can jerky all sorts mate you can do any meat that you can think of you can jerky even fish I've got my eye on making some some nice salmon jerky so without further ado let's get into it putting your meat in the freezer for 20 minutes half an hour beforehand stiffens the whole thing up makes it easier to cut into thin slices give your hands a good wash assemble your ingredients on a chopping board for the purpose of the video no other reason to do this whatsoever make sure your knife is super sharp before you start trim off any excess fat because this will spoil over time you want to be cutting the beef against the grain and that'll make it less chewy and more soft and you want to be cutting it about a quarter of an inch thick and then you want to cut it into strips remove all the excess fat and carry on cutting up the meat now for the marinade we have Worcester sauce soy sauce garlic powder smoked paprika chili flakes black pepper and then a teaspoon of my friends homemade honey get everything all smashed up together and then you want to add the meat one bit at a time so that you know it's all fully coated in with a little bit more of everything because why not you want to cover that with cling film pop it in your fridge for a few hours overnight be ideal I left mine overnight get it out the next day and then we're going to arrange it on the rack don't overlap the meat it's fine to be touching because it will shrink quite a lot remove the excess moisture with some paper towels and then you want to cook it low and slow for about three or four hours and then voila it's done there she is a decent a decent jar of beef jerky oh man it smells so good the root one of the reasons I've made this is I like to experiment with the keto diet and so I find that this is a perfect little snack to have at work or when you're hiking and it's it's pretty expensive when you buy it from the shops so I thought just get a cheap cut of me you know something with not so much fat on it bit of topside or whatever it may be and knock some up look at her sweet from the honey a lot of people add liquid smoke but it's not my thing I don't think it's very good for you and so I've just used smoke paprika and you still get that smoky hit and then I had just a few a few a few chili flakes if you dried chili flakes gives that heat so you've got the heat and the sweet really nice just sit and watch me eat this mmm don't look over clever does it don't look over clever but that is delicious also I've just realized that my microphone's there so apologies apologies for chewing I'll put that over here I won't chew anymore will I just have one more bit one more little bit let's take a bit off that beautiful mmm and I'm gonna I can leave that for months on end and just take a little bit as and when I need it I was buying it from the shops and taking it hiking and onto work and stuff and it was just it's so expensive so I thought I'd make up a jar you can do it with mints ground beef or ground whatever you want and flatten that out and turn that into jerky it's a more cost-effective way of doing it get creative don't just put what I've put in it I just I was just keeping it simple but you know you could you can put coffee in it you can make it extra spicy you can put it's a barbecue sauce anything you want anything you can think of within reason stick it in there and experiment with different flavors it's a long process but it's worth doing because it does it as I say it does last for a long time so you can just look keep it on shelf next to the and next to the mushrooms and I hope your vegan girlfriend doesn't accidentally snaffle one thinking it's a part of a thinking it's part of a nice the mushroom or some it right also these shut the new leave no trace t-shirts with a haze logo on the back and they're in the shop now so I'll leave a link below if you want one of them yeah if you do make jerky this is a sentence I never thought I'd say but if you do make jerky tag me on Instagram so I'd like to have a look and tell us what you put in it and if it worked out for you I'd be interested to know and that's it I'll be back I'll be back again soon with another video I'm sorry it's it's another tales from the fungarium I've had opportunities to go out wild camping in private woodland which I'm not sure if that's there's if there's a problem with that but after a lot of soul searching I thought no I don't think it's fair to go out wild camping while there's people who watch this who are gagging to get out so I'm I'm not doing it just for solidarity we're all in it together and I'm in it as well and I'm missing I'm missing my wild camping yeah so I'm staying away from wild camping until we're officially allowed out and I know it's probably cool to do it in someone's private land but it's it's about solidarity and and letting everyone know that we're in this together me and you fellow humans I'm enjoying that it's making me creative and making me think outside the box as far as getting videos together and doing some cool stuff that I'm enjoying so if it's something you like don't forget to hit the bell if you've enjoyed the video and you want to see more of my future videos you can click the subscribe button if you want to be notified of future videos you can click the bell button next to it that's all downstairs anyway if you don't want to do it by the minute there's plenty of content on this daft website for us all to enjoy we're nearly out the other side aren't we anyway of this lockdown it's been a it's been a wild ride and I know people have suffered and I know I know people are suffering and you know what people might never be the same again it's been absolutely bonkers and it is it's there to test your metal and I'd like to think that we when our metal is tested stand up to it and we'd be strong not even not even if it's not for ourselves for the people around us who look to us in these times of world so I hope you're all feeling okay in these crazy times I send you nothing but love I hope you're all looking after each other and more importantly yourself don't kick your tits off and feel bad about feeling bad you know if you can't act it don't worry about it just speak to someone I'll leave a number below for the Samaritans you can always talk to them and talk to each other sometimes it's easy just to talk to a stranger it ain't easy mate we're all we're all in it together we're all suffering our in our own little ways but I send you nothing but strength strength and love and we'll be out of this soon mate I'm looking outside the daffodils are poking their heads up the nights are getting longer and we'll soon this will all just soon be a distant memory so look after yourselves take care of one another I'll see you soon au revoir delicious see you later mate