Beef Jerky Is A Scam

I’m starting a beef jerky business and I’m doing it the right way

That's why I make my own jerky

The Jerky Jerks

If there's any VTuber fan here, you may know a VTuber called Mori Calliope and she likes Charlie's content cuz Charlie is Jesus and Mori is the Grim reaper

one bag in my local store is $40 for 500grams $40 Austral;ian

How do people not know this?

Jack Links is only £1.70 in UK

been sayin this for years now honestly

and this is why i make my own beef jerky lmao you get more than double the jerky for the same price

Five finger discount

Finally someone brings this to attention

You must be so rich Charlie...you’ve got like a million dollars worth of jerky there!

Weight the jerky

Beef jerky wtf man.

I thought they would get scientific and at least make some of their own to see how much un-dehydrated meat goes into the process....silly me.

So which one of you watching this video is going to make their own jerky company now?

It's called dehydration

Buy jerky from hunters and that way your money is also going to wildlife/environmental conservation. Venison jerky is amazing and is actually worth the price instead of getting scammed by the big companies

Seems like 4 to 5$ per pound which is roughly 75% water, so 1 pound gets you around 4oz. So you get more with better quality making it yourself. Between employees, spices, and distribution it seems somewhat fair to charge 6+ for the store bought.

Beef is expensive

I recommend bucees jerky. Little bit more expensive but you get like over 3x the amount of jerky. It’s also some good shit too

I typically don't buy jerky unless it's $1 or less per ounce.

They sell it by the ounce. You price it by the ounce. Bro for someone as well versed as yourself, how do not understand how food works?! I used to look for jerky that was around $1 per ounce, could only find that price on the big like $11 bags you know? How much do you pay for steak? Someone cooked this shit and put it in a handy little bag that you can take anywhere and you're too stupid to find a decent deal so you're mad at the whole system. Hahaha this is the most ridiculous concept 😂

Each bag is about two pounds of steak before it dehydrated. You pay more for the water in steaks

Have you ever made jerky though.... I mean you can start with 5lbs of meat and end up with like nothing

An 8oz steak runs around 15 bucks. So you dehydrate that same steak and lose almost 80% of the volume of the meat your left with 2oz of dried meat. This is why jerky is so expensive...

Bro I love jerky but lowkey they're is literally nothing in the bags, and they are so overpriced for how little is in there.

You were lazy and paid for convenience, you're only mad at yourself.

This sounds like discussions I heard during Grad School, in certain *ahem* circumstances, in group discussions, in the wee hours...cough cough.

i worked at walmart n i never complained about the jerky prices .... ... Because i stole every bag of jerky i ever ate from walmart

I got a 15$ bag I’ll buy and send to you guys that Ik you wouldn’t be dissatisfied with 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

why beef jerky

you should make your own.

Make your own. I spend $30 on 5lbs of london broil and have 2 gallon bags of berkey when I am done. Also it is way better than the store shit.

Go to your local jerky manufacturers! You can get double that which is the actual value for money

Mike's Country Meats from Tigerton, Wisconsin. You can find it online. $26 for a pound of the best jerky in the world. The Hot Jamaican is my favorite. Blows all this crap out of the water.

You gotta buy wholesale jerky Charlie

Near me in Illinois we have a place called Reams Meat Market they make their own in house beef jerky you get waaay more jerky per dollar.

Well as someone who makes jerky homemade regularly I have a few explanations. one pound of fresh beef shrinks by over half when dried. it takes about 2.5 pounds of beef to make one pound of jerky. it also takes quite a bit of time and patience to make good jerky. not to mention we are in a pandemic and the price of beef has gone up. generally if I have to buy the meat and all the seasonings and sauces to marinade the beef it can cost upwards of 40 dollars for 1.5 pounds of jerky if the meat is not on sale. even more expensive if you buy a better cut of beef. So you have to think logically here. if I spend 3 days on a batch of high quality jerky I'm going to charge for it plain and simple. its not very cheap to make, it takes time if you make it right, and it is freaking delicious! not trying to be a Karen here but conspiracy theory debunked. oh and the reason they have a monopoly on the jerky game is because there is a million restrictions and guidelines you have to follow to sell dried beef. I have looked into it as a possible business venture but sadly I don't think its worth it unless you have millions in the bank account.

I love jerky honestly make ur own 6 dollars can make u the whole pound and it tastes way better or go to your local Mexican meat market usually have fresh jerky 14 dollars a pound half pound is like 8 bags of jack links

Make it yourself and save lots of 💰 And you can season it however you like

The beef jerky you buy required 3 times the amount of quality beef to produce. So a 3 oz bag is 9 ozs of premium beef. Which explains why it's so expensive - sorry, not a scam.

One thing to consider, regarding jerky is that half the weight of the meat is lost in the drying process. It’s still expensive, but worth mention.

nobody tell him about potato chips for real though, you can buy good homemade jerky vacuum sealed and shipped to you from ebay. I got 10 lbs for $70 really good stuff too

My germophobic inner self is screaming in pain watching this video.

You must order you some south African beef jerky (biltong)its also dried beef with fucking nice spices on its fucking good to eat🤤 you pronounce biltong like bil like bill the name and tong like thong without the H or 🤣 i just don't hope you roast me for any English mistakes i speak afrikaans ,its like the dutch language just a bit different but we have very much english words and similarities in our language for people that is afrikaans its easy to learn English and for English easy to learn afrikaans sorry if i bore you lol give me a thumbs up if you find this cool me and my son freaks out on your videos fucking hilarious and interesting

We will rise against Big jerky!

Ive stopped buying it for a good few years cause its too expensive.

YEP COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE

You can do better just making your own beef jerky. The price of beef round is not much more then a price of Jack Link's and you can make 10 times as much jerky then what comes in the pack of any these.

get old trapper beef jerkey

I’ve always thought this but never spoke up.

Make it yourself. Lol.. it's still expensive to do it yourself too.

real niggas don't buy jerky they jam it like mans used to make them restock that shit so much and we never bought it

It’s way better in the uk, you can get like half a kilo for a pound

It's so expensive because of the large amounts of meat you need to make the jerky and how little you get from all the meat. As well as all the stuff they use to make it. We all wish it was cheap. $7 is like... Probably $2 profit a bag. If that.

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I thought you were the guy that knew everything. It’s an expensive process. For one, 2.5 pounds of meat makes 1 pound of jerky. And god damn, I didn’t know I could have gotten away with making this video and getting that kind of views. Lucky asshole.

the reason why its so expensive is because jerky shrinks A LOT during the whole drying process, there's a bunch of videos about it if u just look a little. those bags are probably about a whole beef filet dried each. and beef is not a cheap product either. its just a bad combo, just eat sun dried apples instead.

This is why I eat biltong from South Africa or go to a deli and get proper beef jerky I don't know who eats 6 pieces and goes well that was worth my money

dude you got youtube money, just make and brand your own beef jerky and price it accordingly

Okay I agree the price is too high and it’s deceptive packaging. But y’all know it takes like 10oz of meat to make 2oz of jerky? A pound of round steak is (Feb/‘21) wholesale is $2.80/lb (probably cheaper for Jack links) that’s $0.175 an oz, so $1.75 for 2oz of jerky (from 10oz). Let’s add another $1.25 for processing, packaging, labor, shipping, marketing, management and executive management. That gets us to $3.00 min. There’s the wholesaler’s markup which is like $1.00 (min) and the final retail markup which is like $2-4 depending on a lot of factors. So $7.99 looks like a fair price once you factor in what it took to get it to the gas station. But thats capitalism baby. Go to your local butcher or make it yourself.

There is a local butcher joint down the road from my work, shout out to B&D Meats in Green, OR. It makes straight up mouthwatering, fucking amazing jerky. $20 a pound, worth every penny. It did shits on any store bought jerky. Besides that place the other manager I work with makes some really, really good stuff from home, too. He makes it from London broil he cuts himself, puts all these seasonings on it. It isn't dry as hell, moist and so flavorful. Wish I could get these guys a batch of each, they'd LOVE it, I'm positive.

You want to know why, THIS IS WHY, beef jerky is priced BEFORE the drying process occurs. Beef is over 60% water so imagine after being dehydrated, it becomes MUCH smaller of course. It takes 2.5lbs of beef to make 1 pound of beef jerky. Then factor in all the extra processes that go in making dried meat over just a normal steak. Then you have each brand that can mark it up for their own brand. I agree it's expensive, but there is a reason why and most people have no clue why you get such a small amount.

*Jerkygate*

In Japan, I can grab a whole bento-box meal for like ¥328 which translates over to about $3.20. 🍱

If you're buying jerky right, 25-30 dollars gets you 1lbs

Just make your own....Super easy and a lot cheaper

Inflation is a hell of a financial instrument

"you bunch of jerks"

Charlie looks like a beautiful girl with a beard 😂

6:10 what a freaking score

Damn. These jerky companies out here slanging dubs of beef jerky.

That's more that $36 a lb! LMAO What are these, fkn' filet cuts??

If you want a good amount of Jack links, get their "sticks" they’re usually 1 dollar or so and it’s honestly the same amount of meat but well...in *stick format*

This video symbolizes the feeling of getting old.

I really appreciate this, because the price of beef jerky outrages me.

Well beef is 75% water so if you make beef jerky out of 10oz of beef you will get 2.5 oz of beef jerky so technically your paying for 10 oz of beef but because it doesn't have much water in it you are getting 75% less

Not gonna lie this made me have cravings for beef jerky

Check out walmart great value jerky, its good and the price is fair.

Just search it up “we have technology”-Patrick

There's a local brand called damn good jerky and it's a smaller bag that costs 2.35 or a bag the same size for 3.70 and it has the same if not more jerky in it than these

america is just a scam we can get like 5 times more in a bag than u for 4-5 dolars tsktsktsk america°

Yea I love jerky it’s just not worth it so I don’t get it anymore

I know a place that’d sell him a shit ton of real ass jerky

Been saying this for years!

*Casually gets a jerky ad*

Is this guy an actor? Or a singer? How the heck is hobo jeezus so damn popular?

Jim dandys for the win. Quality Jerky at a good price

In terms of meat that is like $42 a pound!

DROP THE PRICE ITS SLICED BEEF. We aren't talking about unicorn meat here guise!

I got more then that from the last deer i processed but on a side note the old trapper beef jerky. Large bag i feel is a good price at like $10ish

Fire that fucken camera guy what the fuck are you zooming in and out for

We have some beef jerky that I think is only in our town and they make real good stuff and quite a lot in a package for a good price

The true crime ones are the ones that're 12.99

this guy 5 foot 3?

They honestly should just pack it into a smaller bag

next time om detective jesus: jesus get pranked

Here I was expecting a price breakdown, cost of the meat and expenses to make jerky, and comperative to why it is a scam to just making it homemade. 😐

This is not new, look at cereal boxes getting thinner, toilet paper getting smaller, that dome at the bottom of bottles to reduce the inside amount. Dollar to commodity. There hasn't been a huge demand for these products from nowhere. Manufacturers are hiding price increases from inflation by reducing the product amount and masking it with packaging. They're afraid of consumer backlash from price increases, everyone wants cheaper but your money is all tied up in collective public debt.