I normally would use a stronger term, but since this might be seen by
ladies and the underage, I chose to use a more gentle point of
exclamation.

Today, I bought some flank steak to make a little jerky, I know that
this will date me, but the last time I made flank steak jerky was back
in the early 90's. Then, as I recall, I almost swallowed my tongue when
the store wanted $1.99 a pound. I can remember when it was either
tossed out, ground and "sneaked" into hamburger by a greedy butcher or
boiled up to make a meat broth. I can also remember my mother frying it
up and then scraping it with a spoon to make "scraped steak."

My God! Smith's was asking $6.99 a pound for the stuff!!!!!!!!!!! I
was on a roll, however, and got 5#. I put the three steaks in the
freezer until they were almost frozen, then took them next door to my
buddy, who has the commercial meat slicer from his Daddy's butcher shop.
My guess is that I have enough to cover all 8 racks for the Bradley.
I mixed Terriaki <sp?> and cracked pepper for the marinade and have it
under vacuum in my two big Foodsaver cannisters.

In the past, I've always just used the Terriaki/pepper mix for jerky,
but am thinking it might be fun to toss in a little apple juice. Any
comments before I make a mistake? I normally wouldn't take a poll about
anything concerning flank steak, but at these prices I feel I need a
national opinion and multiple viewpoints before proceeding. <Grin>


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---Nonnymus---
In the periodic table, as in politics,
the unstable elements tend to hang out on
the far left, with some to the right as well.