Today, I spent eight hours cutting, curing, and aligning on the racks, six months worth of beef to be dried for some tasty jerky, only to find out my dehydrator is broken beyond repair, and would cost as much to fix as the soon-to-spoil meat that I bought. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, despite being utterly depressed, I thawed 7 kilos of raw meat, in order to put it through the meat grinder. Not only did my mom forget to clean certain parts of the meat grinder after last using it, she also seems to have lost another part, without which the machine doesn't work. FML
Today, my daughter, who is going through a vegan phase, pulled the plug for our garage chest freezer, where we store our meat. That's $1200 of meat, rotten. My husband is so mad that he's been at the gym for six hours straight. FML
Today, I spent my entire day off making a brisket. It had been cooking for 8 hours when, just before dinner, I went for a quick jog. In that time my girlfriend came home and ruined it by trying to make it the way she wanted. I'm a chef and she's an office worker. We couldn't eat it. FML
Today, I bought $250 worth of groceries and was feeling rather good about myself because it's the first time I've been able to do so in months. When I returned home I found my fridge/freezer broken. Most of the food I bought was dairy or frozen. FML
Today, to save money, I bought some meat in bulk. When I got home, I was told that power to the neighborhood was out, and probably would be for days. Rather than let the meat rot, I barbecued it all and gave it away to my neighbors. The power came on while everyone was eating. FML
Today, my dryer was finally repaired after not working for over a month. I did one load of laundry and my washer stopped working. Another day, another $400+ repair bill. FML
Today, I bought some beef jerky. As I put the first piece in my mouth, I thought to myself, "Wow, this is tough enough to break a tooth." It was. FML
Today, I was working in a deli when I cut more meat than I intended; I basically removed my fingerprint via the deli slicer. FML
Today, my sister put a piece of leather in my homemade beef jerkey to prove a point. I ate it. FML
Today, I replaced the broken hot plates in my stove, only to realize that something else is broken, and it's still is not usable. I had to change it all back before I could even heat dinner. This was after I had carried the thing up and down the stairs by myself, and spent an entire afternoon cleaning it. FML
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28actress 22
If it were me, I would try to get the dehydrator fixed before the meat spoils, even though it is expensive, because you will probably need it in the future
farmgirl98 14
That's a major bummer, but with all of that careful preparation why didn't you check over your equipment ahead of time? FYL
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Comments (44)
Donut_Wizard 23
Use the oven, set on the lowest heat level.
AirBusDriver 23
Time to go vegan.
Soloman212 28
That's like a condom breaking before a date so you go gay.
tipsy2013 24
Couldn't you just freeze it until you got a new dehydrator?
caspertink 17
Alton brown had some kind of way he makes jerky with out those
tonya34gabrielle 7
Definitely just put it in the oven. I put them on the lowest setting and kabob pieces of jerky on skewers and layer them across the oven rack. 6-8 hours and they are wonderful.
MonCapitan 4
Double checking equipment and occasional preventative maintenance can save a lot more than money, namely time, effort and stress. Take it as a lesson to be learned.
Red_Head_sortof 5
what about refrigerating or freezing it until you can solve the machine dilemma? Or having the best barbecue in recent history :)
VowelMovement 15
Freeze it?
rhiannonleesarah 14
Why not just freeze the meat until you fix it or find another alternative???
Mr_Mole 24
Serves you right for making jerky. I would only feed that to my dog.