Jack Link's Beef Jerky Teriyaki

Jack Link's Beef Jerky Teriyaki — the soy-led one in the range

Jack Link's Beef Jerky Teriyaki is thin strips of beef given a sweet-savoury teriyaki marinade, then dried slowly over wood smoke, with a warm hum of ginger behind it. It is where people land when Original feels a little bare and chilli is not the answer.

Why this one

• Soy does the heavy lifting: a savoury depth running under the sweetness, so it tastes cooked rather than merely seasoned.
• Ginger on the finish: a bright lift at the end that stops the marinade going flat halfway down a bag.
• High in protein: it is dried beef and a marinade, and not a great deal else.

How Jack Link's makes it

Teriyaki uses the same base as every other flavour in the range — the old family recipe, thin strips, slow drying, wood smoke going on as the meat dries. What makes this one teriyaki is the marinade: soy sauce leading, ginger warm behind it, a fruity sweetness rounding it off.

Taste and texture

Savoury first, and deeper than you expect from something this size: the soy reads as a cooked glaze, the sort you scrape off a pan rather than pour from a bottle. Sweetness arrives in the middle, ginger sharpens the end, and woodsmoke runs under all of it. The strips are thin and faintly tacky, easy to pull apart, and they chew down slowly without turning into work. Of the three core flavours it is the roundest, and the only one with no heat at all.

Who it is for

Anyone who finds Original a bit bare and Sweet & Hot a bit much. The stretch between a late lunch and a dinner that keeps getting pushed back. And cooks, who end up shredding a few strips over rice or into a noodle bowl and claiming that was the plan all along.

Frequently asked

Is it sweet? Sweet the way a teriyaki glaze is sweet: it sits behind the savoury rather than in front of it. If you have eaten teriyaki chicken, you know the shape of it.

Is it softer than the other flavours? A little. The marinade leaves the strips slightly more yielding, which is the first thing people notice switching from Original.

How should it be stored? Cool, dry and out of the sun while the bag is sealed — no fridge needed. Once it is open, reseal it as well as you can and get through it while the strips are still soft.

Order Jack Link's Beef Jerky Teriyaki at Jerky Store Europe

Stocked in every size from 25 g to 100 g, with twelve-bag cases and a 10 x 100 g box, shipping fast across Europe from Jerky Store Europe.