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Nice to see this thread has lived on and looking at all the amazing biltong made by everyone!

For my hunting trips I usually do 250g bags for lunch too, keeps you going and also replaces the salts lost through sweating. Good stuff mate.

That's awesome Scottrods, might have to look at getting a dehydrator now.

Update on the biltong:

Has been in the box for about a week now, this is how it looks:
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Cut one up, still a bit too red on the inside for my liking, but very tasty:

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It couldn't hurt chucking 1 or 2 pieces in a dehydrator to see how it goes. Even eating it on day 1 without drying wont kill you because the meat has been cured with the vinegar and salt. I assume...

I do mine in the workshop which is shut overnight and you can definitely smell it for the first few days, makes me hungry working in the workshop during the day!!! During the day if the weather is...

Yep, you could look at some different heat source if the power consumption worries you. If it's a nice dry hot day then just moving air over the meat will work fine, but Auckland is usually wet and...

Here is a pic of the biltong hanging in the cabinet, at this point it has been hanging for about 12 hours, I will take another picture in a few days to show how it's darkened up.

Notice how it's...

The recipe above does not mention where to get some roasted crushed coriander, which is hellishly expensive if you buy it the wrong way. I usually buy a kg at a time of raw dry coriander seeds from...

Toby and OneShotKill, you can use any reasonable cut to make the biltong, I even made some goat biltong once, which turned out really good actually. I wouldn't bother using smaller sinewy muscles as...

OK, so you've had a quick browse through the recipe above and decided that it really doesn't look that hard, first step is probably to set up a drying cabinet of some sort. I built the cabinet...

Hi guys, here is the biltong recipe as promised, with some pictures showing the steps.

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And here is some pics showing the process, I took these minutes ago while doing my...