A guy at work does his own and sells it to other staff, it's up there with the best biltong i've had. He actually buys liquid smoke to give it a smoky flavour, and then different degrees of chilli/spices

Stuff jerky got to be biltong and yes some say there is no difference but there is.... South Africa/Botswana/Zimbabwe makes me wanna go go back for a while... Cape to Cairo in Ozzie Park sell all you need from marinade to boxes for those ready for the challenge. Some good sounding mixes mentioned. If only we could some decent game like Kudu to make biltong..... drool

Maybe someone would like to recommend the Kudu comparison for Australia?

agreed, the meat used definitely makes massive difference

[url]http://www.mcd.com.au/game_meats.php[/url]

looks like you'll find all the game meat you want from here...

Would love to try some home made chilli or peri peri stokies or jerky!!!

Can you still buy Road Kill, I think a guy in Exmouth used to make it and sell it in some pubs, best I've ever had.
Wouldn't mind trying to make it myself, I didn't realise it was that easy.

Road Kill is still around.

Have to agree with Zuum that game meat biltong is the bomb. Kudu makes excellent jerky but I my girl and I are very partial to the "McDonalds" of the bush - impala.

Guys what dehydrators are you using? Will be buying one and getting my Jerky career under way asap. What dehydrators are good and is there something to look for in a good one?

Goodguys had a sunbeam one on special for about $60-70 a few weeks ago. In my opinion, get one with a good number of trays (4 absolute minimum) with the lowest temperature possible. You dont want to cook the meat, only dry it.

Pretty much anything will work you will just have to experiment a few times to get spacing and things right. In a pinch, make metal hooks out of wire, put your oven tray on the top rack and something on the bottom of the oven to catch drips then hang your meat on the hooks off the top rack. Crack the oven door open slightly and set it for around 50-60 degrees depending on the oven (fan forced only).

So besides the game meat can you use any other meat from say your local butcher or coles etc?

Topside roast works well but try heaps of cuts and see what works best for you. 2kgs topside roast from Coles is around $10-15 and even better from some butchers.

Other then that you can try pretty much anything, I like putting boerewors and other nice quality falvoured snags in there for example.