Cooking the sticks can be accomplished in the oven on a smoker or in a temperature controlled dehydrator that can be set to at least 160 degrees.
Venison snack sticks dehydrator.
You can make these snack sticks on a dehydrator but this camp chef woodwind pellet grill adds amazing flavor to these.
Doing this to your snack sticks is going to make for a very dry product.
I know that the two recipes included on this article are almost the same but there are a few different ingredients which are added to the second one and they will taste different totally different.
Snack sticks can be made out of almost any meat block but you can t treat an all beef or pork snack stick the same as the one you are making out of a deer you got last weekend.
If you are using any type of wild game like venison elk moose etc.
You need to be using smoked meat stabilizer.
As a first step when you want to make a good deer jerky you need a good meat because of the secret of a good jerky in fact is just in using the purest fat free meat and the great marinade but more about marinade later.
For them to reach the texture of a snack stick instead of a sausage they really need to be left in for a long time.
Once the temperature is reached the cooking will begin and you have to start measuring time.
The snack sticks need to stay in the dehydrator until the internal temperature is at least 155 degrees fahrenheit.
It easy fun and you will end up with a delicious snack sticks.
This is my smoked snack sticks recipe.
At that point they are cooked and the real drying begins.
I start out low around 145 to 150 degrees for an hour then turn the temperature up to 170 degrees and continue to cook until the snack sticks reach an internal temperature of 150 degrees.
Fire up your smoker and run the temperature at 130 140f while smoking for about 2 hours then turn the smoke off and increase the cabinet temperature up to 170f for 45min to an hour.