First attempt at homemade biltong! (UK 🇬🇧)
Hey Biltong guys! đź‘‹
I finally decided to give this a go, after finding the supermarket stuff very very average (to poor) and the “nice” stuff from some of the UK online sellers quite pricey (if you want to eat a lot of it!)
I bought a biltong box from Billies and Tong (great to deal with!) and followed a basic online recipe.
The meat is a “roasting joint” from Aldi which cost about £8 for just over 1KG.
I think it’s topside, but they don’t really tell you.
I must have cut the strips too thin, as it didn’t take long to lose 50-60% at all.
The pic above is after around 42 hours in the box (which has a ceramic heat lamp for temp and a fan for airflow).
I tend to prefer my biltong closer to the 50% mark personally.
But, the most important thing….. it tasted amazing!
Going to try different recipes and see if I can get some better meat from the butchers.
Appreciate all the threads I’ve read up to now!
Oh, PS…. Can anyone recommend a good slicer? Going through all of that 1KG with a knife was time consuming and I could quite get it consistently as thin as I’d like!
Hey Biltong guys! đź‘‹
I finally decided to give this a go, after finding the supermarket stuff very very average (to poor) and the “nice” stuff from some of the UK online sellers quite pricey (if you want to eat a lot of it!)
I bought a biltong box from Billies and Tong (great to deal with!) and followed a basic online recipe.
The meat is a “roasting joint” from Aldi which cost about £8 for just over 1KG.
I think it’s topside, but they don’t really tell you.
I must have cut the strips too thin, as it didn’t take long to lose 50-60% at all.
The pic above is after around 42 hours in the box (which has a ceramic heat lamp for temp and a fan for airflow).
I tend to prefer my biltong closer to the 50% mark personally.
But, the most important thing….. it tasted amazing!
Going to try different recipes and see if I can get some better meat from the butchers.
Appreciate all the threads I’ve read up to now!
Oh, PS…. Can anyone recommend a good slicer? Going through all of that 1KG with a knife was time consuming and I could quite get it consistently as thin as I’d like!