Beef Chili Sticks

[holehogg]

I was inspired by Henrik to get my home-built "Biltong Box" operational again. Ever since I’ve become obsessed with smoking I have neglected a lot of what I previously really enjoyed doing and making biltong was something I did excessively.
I bought 14 pounds of round roast to make a beef curry and kept a piece to make a few Beef Chili Sticks (my daughter’s favourite biltong).



The biltong box is made from a 60 Litre Tote box with a small dry wall fan and light bulb and outlet vent.



I sliced the kept piece of topside roast then rolled like a swiss cake and sliced into thinner pieces to make the sticks.
Coated the strips with Chili Biltong Spice



Threaded onto a wood skewer



Hung in biltong box for drying


The sticks should be ready in 2 days.

[HawkerXP]

Looks like a box of night crawlers!

[holehogg]

To be edible ones.

[HawkerXP]

sorry, holehogg can't wait to see the finished product.

[DeusDingo]

night crawlers are edible...

[SoCal Chris]

So is Biltong basically the same as making jerky but without the smoke?

[holehogg]

I gather. Not at all familiar with Jerky. Just the term.

[klflowers]

Wish I had seen this before I bough the dehydrator.

[holehogg]

Cheap box to build.

[Troutman]

Nice post

[Willy]

Biltong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltong

[Steve R.]

"The word biltong is from the Dutch bil("buttock”") and tong ("strip" or "tongue")" heehee

[Mudkat]

Cool stuff! Learned something new today!

[Henrik]

Great to see another Biltong box! I love the fact that it is stainless. I'm doing a YouTube video next Friday on the subject. Now take some photos of the finished product also!

[holehogg]

Box is plastic. Friend who produces for sale purposes are all huge stainless steel cabinets with same light and fan set up.

[holehogg]

Well the Biltong took quicker to dry than I had anticipated and how I found out was my daughter mentioned it and the missing pieces evidence. Time to dry +-18 hours.