In order to prepare jerky sticks, we need raw (we usually deal with boiled) ham. Ham can be ready to buy and you can prepare yourself, like I did. I bought it from a vending me a piece of "meat" pork belly, cut the skin and a small bone, rubbed with salt, with a mixture of regular table salt and nitrite. Packed the meat in a plastic bag and sent in the refrigerator in the coldest place (optimum temperature +3 degrees C). Was sailosi meat from me within 10 days. It would be possible to keep only 5 days, but wanted to make ham on delicious.

Salted meat (it now has raw ham) I washed with cold water, blotted them with a napkin and cut along the grain into long strips with a cross-section approximately 1 × 1 cm.

Part of the stripes I rubbed the shop with a mixture of peppers. The meat and the rest left as is for comparison. Then I strung the meat strips on long wooden skewers.

Skewers with meat hung to dry on the balcony so that they did not get the sun. Opened the Windows, made a little draught. The Windows have mesh so the flies were not (this is important). The temperature on the balcony was about 30 degrees, at night - about 18.