Chipped Venison from start to finish

[Traditional-Archer]

I wanted to fire up the smoke house again so I decided to make some chipped venison. Here is my recipe.

25lb of deboned trimmed venison
12.5 quarts of water or 2.5 quart per 5 pounds of meat

20 tablespoons of salt

10 tablespoons of tender quick meat cure

25 tablespoons of brown sugar

I mixed all ingredients into the 12.5 quarts of water and separated one gallon for my meat brine injector.

I added the 25lbs of venison into the brine and then I took the gallon of brine and started injecting the meat, when I would see the meat start to plump up I would move to another spot and then to another piece of meat, I did this until all of the meat was full of brine inside and out.

I didn't have a big enough refrigerator so I used my big meat cooler I use for hunting trips. I just kept making sure the temperature in the cooler did not freeze and never got above 40 D/F. I then would turn the meat every morning and every evening when I would get home from work. After 6 days in the brine I pulled the meat and let it drain.
After I put everything together I stuffed my netting to hang the meat in my smoke house.
I fired the smoke house up to 150 D/F then I maintained the temperature for two days. I left the meat in my smoke house for another 5 days not put to any heat. The following weekend I cut the pieces in half to dry the inside just a little more to my liking.
I sliced the venison with my meat slicer as thin as I could.

This sounds like a lot of work but break it down and it's not as bad as it sounds and the rewords way out way the time it takes to make the chipped venison.

 

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[Stone Knife]

Man that looks good, I have had chipped venison before but never made any.

[ChiefStingingArrow]

When I saw the title I said to myself this guys has to be from Pa.  
Thanks I am going to have to try this.

[neuse]

Never heard of this. Looks interesting.

[neuse]

This is new to me.
What do you do with the meat after this process?

[Traditional-Archer]

cut the pieces thin or use a chipper. I will post some pictures when I pull some from the freezer.

[Traditional-Archer]

this is one way to prepare your dried venison.    

[neuse]

I wish the pictures were still here.