So…why is it?
This stuff goes for like $6 for eight ounces or something like that.
That’s more than sirloin. At a wild guess, I’d imagine that beef jerky isn’t quite top quality meat.
Can anyone tell me why dessicated beef is so expensive?
-Joe
I am guessing because it is dessicated beef. With all the liquids out, it probably takes a lot of meat to make that 8 ounces.
A quick search for jerky recipes reveals that it takes about a pound and a half (24 oz.) of flank steak to make 8 oz of jerky.
The price of beef jerky is determined by supply and demand.
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The question wasn’t, why is the price of beef jerky at equilibrium; the question was, why is the supply curve for beef jerky so far to the right. I would imagine chriscya has addressed this point.
I have made beef jerky myself many times and it is even very expensive homemade. I generally used about $20 worth of meat and other ingredients to make a batch. I don’t really know how much the end result weighed but it would only last a day or so before I ate it all myself.