The Official Biltong Enthusiasts Thread

[ZodiacLegend]

Herewith I would like to celebrate one of our national heritage pastimes.

A thread for advice recipies and biltong drier schematics!

I Would like to ask a mod to please officiate us with a sticky!

Please follow us as I will soon post some pics of my personal biltong drier.

The word biltong is from the Dutch bil ("rump") and tong ("strip" or "tongue")

Recipies

Biltong & Beer Bread

NOTE I personally found the Thyme extremely overpowering and reduced it to 10ml. Awesome with a Saturday Braai & some Klippes

What you need Guide

1.Tutorial Video
A home video of a South African making his own biltong down under.
I linked this because this is the video that helped me out most when I started. It is still a basic video and please ask if you need further advice.[video=youtube;sopv3YHrgiQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopv3YHrgiQ[/video]

2.A Drier
Mellerware Biltong Maker Review Just a quick review of the most popular & easiest option for our biltong fanatics!


{Edit}Will finish guide as I have some spare time.

What's the cheapest price per kg that you've seen in your city ?

 

[faniebraai]

R48/kg

 

[pulling wire]

R60 per KG of silverside or topside.

 

[S1lv3r H4wK]

R59/kg currently.

 

[Niner]

Just spiced my first batch. Will hang tomorrow and keep you posted. I used a combination of my parents' recipes, which is funny as we all used to make biltong together, so no idea why the 2 recipes.

 

[Park@82]

R60 per KG of silverside or topside.

Where?

 

[faniebraai]

I buy mine at my local pick n pay. They are normally about 60/kg, but just once they were on special for 48.

 

[I.am.Sam]

i paid R52 a kg

for topside

i have never tried silverside as yet

 

[S1lv3r H4wK]

PicnPay inland has the Mellerware Biltong King on special for 300 buks.

 

[chicken247]

R30/kg for the whole carcass, platteland.

 

[faniebraai]

R30/kg for the whole carcass, platteland.

We want beef not chicken.

 

[chicken247]

We want beef not chicken.

was blesbok and i dont want to know about your sexual preferences dude!

 

[I.am.Sam]

was blesbok and i dont want to know about your sexual preferences dude!

he prefers rats ...

 

[pulling wire]

Where?

Recently Makro & Food Lovers.
Currently Sloane Meat Market, until Sunday 13th June 2014.

 

[Zenbaas]

Recently Makro & Food Lovers.
Currently Sloane Meat Market, until Sunday 13th June 2014.

Sunday? Lol...

 

[pulling wire]

i paid R52 a kg

for topside

i have never tried silverside as yet

Give it a bash, I started on Topside. I only use Silverside. Something about the taste, that makes silverside biltong taste great.

 

[I.am.Sam]

its around the same price so will give it a try end of the month

 

[pulling wire]

Sunday? Lol...

Apologies Sunday 15th.

 

[StuartC]

Geeez, after reading this thread guess I am out to makro to get some topside today!

Time to get the biltong box up and running again...

 

[Shellyb1]

Got my biltong maker and have my first batch drying as of midnight.

I bought more meat than I should have (3.7kg), do you guys buy just enough to make or do you buy bulk and freeze?

Is there a taste difference in the frozen meat?

Thanks for all the tips so far! Can't wait to try.