Making Beef Jerky is easy and quick and not too expensive on the Traeger. Get these ingredients: 1 12 oz beer dark. I used Negra Modelo 1 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup worcestershire sauce 3 TBSP Brown Sugar 1 TBSP Morton Tender quick Curing Salt (this is optional) 1/2 TSP Garlic Salt 3-4 TBSP Ground pepper 1 TBSP of Tony's (Tony Chachere's Original Creole ) 2 LBS Top round beef (pre cut if possible ~1/4 inch thick) Step 1 . Mix the non meat (& only 1 TBSP of pepper) ingredients together well, into a marinade. Note that the ingredients call for 1 - 12 oz beer, but you could drink another while doing step 1 & 2. Step 2 . Put the mix in a zip lock with the meat for 24 hours in the fridge. Step 3 . Start the Traeger on Smoke. (takes a couple of minutes for smoke). I used Hickory wood. Step 4 . While waiting for smoke, lay the meat out on paper towels and pour out the marinade. Apply pepper to the meat generously on both sides. Step 5 . Put the meat flat