alison653 wrote:In other words, it's something that will likely be a) at the Grocery Outlet, b) offered on Freecycle as an unwanted gift, or c) donated to a food pantry program. The food pantry would probably prefer peanut butter for its clients.

Exactly - it reminds me of the episode of 'Seinfeld' where Elaine tries to donate muffin bottoms to a food shelter and they don't want them. I'm sure you'd have the same experience if you tried donating these beef jerkys haha

Bought these twice...last time on the last Woot Off. It is really good, if you like jerky that is heavily flavored and moist. It is missing the Pineapple, which was too gooey. I'm in for 3.

LMFAO Nice ending sentence!

I'll stick to the stuff I make.
Deer,Elk,Duck,goose,turkey, bear...ok bear is
awful. The rest is excellent.
I wouldn't feed this stuff to my Dog.

Is this better than Slim Jim? Granted, that has 1 flavor, but I could get the Mcnugget dipping sauce and have my own plethora of flavors.

antipode wrote:For the cost of this you could get several pounds of flank steak and make a ton more of your own.

I've been using Alton Brown's method of strapping pleated furnace filters to a box fan for the drying process. It works great, and the filters are cheap and reusable.

It would taste better and be TONS healthier, too!

I ordered from this company before when they were featured on wine.woot. I was really excited because I consider myself a jerky connoisseur of sorts. They were pretty bad if you like traditional styles of jerky. Very sweet and very moist. I ended up throwing more than half of them away which is blasphemy in my house, but I just couldn't stand to finish them. I definitely wouldn't recommend them.

topwop wrote:I'll stick to the stuff I make.
Deer,Elk,Duck,goose,turkey, bear...ok bear is
awful. The rest is excellent.
I wouldn't feed this stuff to my Dog.

Ever try dog?... had it in Korea once...

I tried it, and thought it was wonderful for people who love fruit but hate jerky -- and have too much $$ in their pockets.

Seriously, it's soaked in flavoring, which is so intense that one cannot really detect any sense of meat.

We make pemmican at home the Indian way (berries, fat, shredded meat, dried & pressed). When it goes bad, it's a little like this jerky.

Not again....

Dudes, these are pork jery, not beef.......

brucedoesbms wrote:Corn syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup... for how many years have we been going over this subject? Corn syrup, as produced for world-wide consumption, is UNSAFE... Please, woot!, why do you insist on offering products produced by unsafe agricultural practices?...

I want my corn syrup. It is just like 100 proof booze, but does not get you drunk.

lwang wrote:I want my corn syrup. It is just like 100 proof booze, but does not get you drunk.

Huh?...

THIS is what corn syrup has done to ME:

mikemiracle wrote:The Jerky store called
They're running out of you
GC

Who cares? You're their all-time best seller.

brucedoesbms wrote:Huh?...

I think that poster is referring to the fact (covered up, but fact nonetheless) that ingestion of corn syrup has the same chemical effects on the brain that cause an addictive type of euphoria, much like drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. It makes you (temporarily) feel good, then you go thru physical withdrawal and crave more...but it doesn't get you "drunk" (at least not in the same way.)

One last thing....

@Kraveit: You might want to mention to your PR dept. that naming a food which contains physically addictive, dangerous ingredients "KRAVE" was probably not a very bright move if you want to move product.

I've bought this here about a year ago. Picture 90% meat coating and 10% meat. I'd say that's about accurate. Too sweet / sticky IMHO.

CowBear wrote:Who cares? You're their all-time best seller.

High fructose and soybean oil are not really ingredients that you should be blowing your healthy ingredients horn about unless you are way out of your depth. High fructose, just give it a look on Google and see for yourself what it will do to you.

If they are "natural flavors" why are they adding them? Shouldn't they be in there already, naturally? What exactly are these natural flavors that are listed in the ingreedyents?

Although I've personally never experienced this brand of Jerky, just looking at the pictures of the meat scares the crap out of me. Are they edible? Is something fuzzy growing out of these things? I guess they taste better than they look. :/

I make my own beef jerky, but I have never used corn syurp or soy sauce. I use all dry ingreidents. 3 different flavors of salts, some powdered red pepper, course black pepper and about a tablespoon of white sugar. My beef jerky is dry, as it should be, and not wet or moist. I sell it for $2.00 an ounce or $32.00 a pound. And you do get your monies worth. That's a lot of meat.

wafty wrote:High fructose and soybean oil are not really ingredients that you should be blowing your healthy ingredients horn about unless you are way out of your depth. High fructose, just give it a look on Google and see for yourself what it will do to you.

Yes, please do check out GMO Watch, or better yet, just google this...

• what is knuckle cut beef ?
• who makes pork jerky ?
• turkey jerky is for dog treats, not people.
that is all. thanks.

All I can say is THANK GOD for the community section on Woot. I read enough posts to steer clear of sticky overly sweet jerky.

I am new to woot, but glad I navigated to the community part and read feedback from those who have purchased this before.

Is there a way to pick my avatar ?

It really depends on your food preferences. If you like sweet meat products like char su bao, or korean bbq, or other oriental style red-cooked meats then you'll probably like this. Its sweet, its sort of "wet", there are no two ways around this fact. If you don't go for that sort of thing then you'll hate it.

The 2 turkey jerkys aren't anywhere near as sweet as the pork or some of the beef flavors are. I prefered them to Trader Joe's turkey jerky. We've gotten the krave sampler a bunch of times now from various places and we like it. Hubby prefers the less sweet flavors so I eat the pineapple beef if its in the combo, and he won't eat pork anyway so we're good there.

Forgot to add, saw this advertised at their normal prices in my local Safeway grocery circular this week. So if you have a Safeway and want to try just 1 pack, that might be an option.

I bought these last time they were on wine.woot. i'll miss the chili-garlic beef that was offered last time. I won't miss the pineapple-orange beef (not so much pineapple-orange as it was soft candied meat that I mixed with the chili-garlic to become palatable).

the basil-citrus turkey was ok. very basil-y. the sweet chipotle is as close to "normal" jerky as you will get if you like sweet-spicy jerky. the chili-lime was by far the best. it was very zesty!

I'll skip this round though. This is the only brand of jerky i've crossed where almost none of the flavors are ok for a low-carb diet. I still have two bags waiting around for a day that I break the diet and yet still feel like eating slabs of meat. hope these guys learn to ease up on the sugar and syrup!

not to diss woot, but this is one product with which i've made my fastest decision to not purchase. when it comes to jerky, i'd purchase a pound of michael symon's (an iron chef) "best thing i ever ate, salty" jerky from ohio. google it to get the URL. Expect to pay about $20/lb for the *best* jerky you've ever had. sorry woot

therealjrn wrote:Some of these seem to have a lot of corn syrup in them.

What did you expect from a product "Made in California"

Shop elsewhere for quality jerky.

timefortag wrote:All I can say is THANK GOD for the community section on Woot. I read enough posts to steer clear of sticky overly sweet jerky.

I am new to woot, but glad I navigated to the community part and read feedback from those who have purchased this before.

Is there a way to pick my avatar ?

You'll find this to always be the case on all the Woot forums....people absolutely tell it like it is and pull no punches when it's a bad product, and you can trust the praise when it's a good one (with the occasional exception of during woot-off "killers.")

Reading before clicking has never failed me....sometimes tipping the scales to buy if I'm on the fence (and always happy I did based upon others' positive comments); sometimes preventing me from making an impulsive mistake. The mods are awesome in allowing frank feedback....even bad. That is VERY unlike most sites, which delete negative feedback on their own products. The Woot forums are more like an impartial review site in that regard. But a MUCH more fun group!!!!

Re your avatar: you can go to your profile by clicking on yourself (don't do that too much or you'll go blind!) and choosing from the set of unique avatar choices made available to you....and only you...by the Inglourious Woot gods. Or, you can upload your own.

Aside from the last one, these would make a good low-carb snack.

ReginaFilangee wrote:...The mods are awesome in allowing frank feedback....even bad. That is VERY unlike most sites, which delete negative feedback on their own products. The Woot forums are more like an impartial review site in that regard. But a MUCH more fun group!!!!

You could say we're sweet as corn syrup but as genuine as comb honey...the forums are where it's at!

k3lit0 wrote:Aside from the last one, these would make a good low-carb snack.

I hope that was said tongue-in-cheek, as ALL of these are very HIGH-carb snacks, and contain especially bad carbs to boot. These would never be appropriate for any part of a low-carb approach to dietary lifestyle.

k3lit0 wrote:Aside from the last one, these would make a good low-carb snack.

Read the nutrional facts, high sugar content especially since a serving size is 1 oz. Low carb no way.

therealjrn wrote:You could say we're sweet as corn syrup but as genuine as comb honey...the forums are where it's at!

Yes, I think y'all are just as sweet as KRAVE jerky....with their high amounts of regular (refined white) sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, modified corn starch, maltodextrin, and even evaporated cane juice. =P
(Although, that last one's not half bad, especially as low on the list as it is.)

But at least y'all are sweet in a GOOD way!

mbastow wrote:Ordered these before. They were just mediocre. Biggest issue was the jerky was soggy and some were even dripping with the flavoring.

I ordered 15 of them, tried each flavor. Had no desire to eat them ever again and gave the 10 remaining packages away to people I don't like.

Felt bad I never thanked you for all that jerky you gave me, now I'm glad I didn't.I thought we were buds?

k3lit0 wrote:Aside from the last one, these would make a good low-carb snack.

Eh, only one of them would qualify as a low-carb snack (the one with 2g of sugar per serving).

How they managed to create jerky that has a 1:1 and even 2:1 carb to protein ratio is beyond me.

jasonking0351 wrote:My teenage daughter who is diabetic loves these because the low carb content.

My grandfather with high blood pressure had better stay away from these with the sodium levels listed!

http://www.kravejerky.com/nutrition.htm

I just noticed your comment....

I fervently hope and pray that you are not allowing your DIABETIC daughter to eat these!!!! If so, you both need some serious review on what constitutes "low-carb" in general, and ESPECIALLY for diabetics. ONE BITE of these has enough sugar (in various forms) to send her glucose and insulin levels into a whirlwind.

What you want to let her snack on is PLAIN jerky.....meat, slight spices.

In case I wasn't clear (I have an advanced medical degree with tons of nutritional biochemistry background, btw): DIABETIC PEOPLE CANNOT EAT THESE!!!!....EVER!!!!.....Not even "occasionally" or "just a bite." (And if you eat them on a regular basis, don't be surprised if you quickly gain weight and/or become diabetic yourself.)

Sorry to harp on this but it really burns my hide that foods are produced with so much of really BAD TYPES of sugar to start with, then they try to "hide" the actual amount included by dividing it up into different parts on the ingredient list in order to avoid having to list it as the FIRST ingredient!!!!

markinca wrote:....episode of 'Seinfeld' where Elaine tries to donate muffin bottoms to a food shelter and they don't want them.

"They're just STUMPS!"--Rebecca De Mornay

Ordered 3 sets first time this was offered as my family LOVES beef jerky.

We tried them all but the only one we liked was the teriyaki smoked jerky, no one would touch the others...just too heavily fruit flavored. Wound up donating the unopened packs to my son's Boy Scout troop (since Boy Scouts on a campout will eat just about anything).

I'll pass this time around.

Interesting (related) tidbit...

The early morning news just mentioned that today is (in addition to Pi day as everyone is already aware): Registered Dietician's Day.

Although I am not one myself, I thought that was somewhat ironic for today's woot thread topic.