@helmuthschultes9243

2 years ago

Properly dried should be safe for years. Have had jerky after 5 years, but it was really dried, not the soft chewy stuff generally sold as jerky. That soft chrwy thing sold in almost all supermarkets goes bad within a year especially if not stored relatively cool.
The dried stuff needs minutes in the mouth after snapping a piece bite sized off before even becoming chewable. The hard dried jerry was always carried for long trip way back in history.

Here in Australia there is a good supplier operating in middle of the nation in Alice Springs , they have beef and camel jerky in several flavours from plain to peppery to very hot spicy, that I have purchased back in 1980s to 1990s. I understand they also have Crocodile jerky and someone I met claimed seeing EMU jerky but others denied that exists. Sadly this product is not sold anymore at big city supermarkets though till early 1990s it was occasionally on sale. It has entirely been replaced by the soft chewy jerky in all local shops. Sadly I have for past 10 years not travelled through Alice Springs and on my 2004 travel did not stop to buy any. At earlier times I was about annually there for car hot conditions testing so many times brought entire boxes of retail packs, that was the old gross count of 144 packs. It cost much less per pack than individual retail prices too under 1/2 price and even cheaper if taking closer to "best before: date which on this long term stable dry jerky was no issue at all.
I had friends that wanted to share in those packs not all for me, rarely lasting a year, but I found some a while ago tucked away by a decade, still as good as new.
But somehow most consumers do not like the hard dry jerky but prefer the soft chewy ones. No doubt same in USA but I assume fully dried is also on sale in USA.

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