so how did u do this year?

[aunt betty]

This is interesting. ..
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... nets.aspx#!

[banknote]

If all it does is enhance flavor, I'd try leaving it out and see how the jerky turns out.

[aunt betty]

If all it does is enhance flavor, I'd try leaving it out and see how the jerky turns out.

Instead of attempting to tell us what to eat and what to put on it or not...share your recipe and let us pick at it.
I would enjoy that tremendously.

[banknote]

If all it does is enhance flavor, I'd try leaving it out and see how the jerky turns out.

Instead of attempting to tell us what to eat and what to put on it or not...share your recipe and let us pick at it.
I would enjoy that tremendously.

I don't have a recipe for jerky, that's why I was interested in yours. Suggesting you try it without the MSG was just friendly conversation. If you're telling me that the recipe isn't any good without the MSG, fine, eat whatever you want, but I'll go look for a different recipe if I decide to make my own.

Closest thing to jerky I have a recipe for is smoked salmon/steelhead. It's just a 12-24 hour brine of 1 cup kosher salt and 1 cup brown sugar in a gallon of ice water. After brine rinse, pat dry and allow to stand about 30 minutes. Place on racks, sprinkle dark brown sugar and fresh ground black pepper on top. I use a Big Chief electric smoker. Run about 4 pans of alder chips through it, then when smoke is done wrap with old blanket and let cook for 1-2 hours, depending on the thickness of the fish. Total time in smoker 4-6 hours. If you went longer maybe it would turn to jerky, but I try not to dry it out. At the end I just unplug the smoker and let everything cool down over night, then take fish off the racks cold.

[QH's Paw]

I think the hype about MSG is created because some people have a allergic reaction(I guess that's what you would call it?) to it.

This statement seems to make more sense than anything else I've heard hear. MSG is not a preservative, it is flavor enhancement. Soup manufacturers figured out years ago using it allowed them to use just one chicken in place of five in the manufacturing process.
Some people get major headaches when they eat food with it. I haven't read anything from "credible" sources that it is generally bad for your health.
Here is the most credible thing I was able to find in a search. It is from the Mayo clinic.

"Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer commonly added to Chinese food, canned vegetables, soups and processed meats. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified MSG as a food ingredient that's "generally recognized as safe," the use of MSG remains controversial. For this reason, when MSG is added to food, the FDA requires that it be listed on the label.

MSG has been used as a food additive for decades. Over the years, the FDA has received many anecdotal reports of adverse reactions to foods containing MSG. These reactions — known as MSG symptom complex — include:
•Headache
•Flushing
•Sweating
•Facial pressure or tightness
•Numbness, tingling or burning in the face, neck and other areas
•Rapid, fluttering heartbeats (heart palpitations)
•Chest pain
•Nausea
•Weakness

However, researchers have found no definitive evidence of a link between MSG and these symptoms. Researchers acknowledge, though, that a small percentage of people may have short-term reactions to MSG. Symptoms are usually mild and don't require treatment. The only way to prevent a reaction is to avoid foods containing MSG. "

[aunt betty]

You gunna DIE.















Everybody dies eventually.
Eat mor chikin

[QH's Paw]

You gunna DIE.















Everybody dies eventually.
Eat mor chikin

Eggzachery! Better to die fat and happy than skinny and stressed.

[aunt betty]

Some of our "modern health" schemes are huge failures.
Them nasty potato shit errrr chips.
Aspartame. ..if you use it like sugar gives you painful symptoms.
Not everything new and improved is improved...

[aunt betty]

Back to msg.
This container of Accent...I could not tell you when we bought it. Probably 1989 or something shocking.
A little bit goes a long long way. I eat maybe a quarter teaspoon a year. [attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1393615679636.jpg[/attachment]

[banknote]

Back to msg.
This container of Accent...I could not tell you when we bought it. Probably 1989 or something shocking.
A little bit goes a long long way. I eat maybe a quarter teaspoon a year. [attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1393615679636.jpg[/attachment]

Not to try and play nutritionist on you or anything like that, but I'd bet 1/4tsp per year won't hurt you. Especially since it has 60% less sodium than salt!... isn't that like saying 60% less dihydrogen monoxide than water?

[aunt betty]

Back to msg.
This container of Accent...I could not tell you when we bought it. Probably 1989 or something shocking.
A little bit goes a long long way. I eat maybe a quarter teaspoon a year. [attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1393615679636.jpg[/attachment]

Not to try and play nutritionist on you or anything like that, but I'd bet 1/4tsp per year won't hurt you. Especially since it has 60% less sodium than salt!... isn't that like saying 60% less dihydrogen monoxide than water?

You got my point.
Its not something we use daily.
Every so often will put it on burgers, jerky or a steak.

In the 70's restaurants used it like crazy and were making ppl sick.

[aunt betty]

It's not good for you.
I know that. Thanks tho.

[bill herian]

Wrecks your kidneys. If you eat a couple huge plates of Chinese food, you can even feel your lower back ache a little. but it's just so damn good.

They cower and hide when I walk into the chinese restaurant here. Every couple weeks it's like the Rape of Nanking "redux".

You go into a sort of food hypnosis and when you snap out of it you realize you've actually been shoveling the stuff into your face. That's the MSG.

[Bootlipkiller]

Wrecks your kidneys. If you eat a couple huge plates of Chinese food, you can even feel your lower back ache a little. but it's just so damn good.

They cower and hide when I walk into the chinese restaurant here. Every couple weeks it's like the Rape of Nanking "redux".

You go into a sort of food hypnosis and when you snap out of it you realize you've actually been shoveling the stuff into your face. That's the MSG.

Rape of Nanking reference, brutal bill!

[ea oneal]

I'm kind of curious how one would determine the absolute facts of how many birds an entire state harvests over the course of a season? I can't even personally tell you exactly how many birds I killed, let alone within 10 birds of my total. If you have 1000 hunters as lazy as me, now you are talking about the possibility of a 10,000 bird swing (and I think that is a GROSS underestimation). If you are asking any wildlife biologists to give you exact numbers, you are outside of your mind. Do you think they hand count every single one of the 8 million (or whatever the number is) mallards? All science can ever be is a reasonable guess.

ok somebody gets what im saying .just shooting in the dark .no (real) facts. yet lets give them more money to,to um what is it that your doing .oh yeah getting paid a hell of a lot of money to tell hunters-fisherman what to do. for years we had slot limits on a number of lakes yet now ooooo that's wrong .we have facts that say that the other facts were wrong .