>>1118795>You need to cook dehydrate the jerky at 160 F to kill the bacteria anon...Nope actually. The salt content kills basically everything. It's sliced thin enough for the solution to reach everything. I actually eat a couple of the beef strips right out of the marinade and it's delicious.. Remember HS bio and how cells will either explode and die or shrivel up and die when placed in either very hypotonic or hypertonic solutions? There also should be very little bacteria on properly handled beef to begin with.
Dehydrator instruction manuals will advise to use the high temp setting purely for liability reasons. A dehydrator should be used to dehydrate, not cook. The key is convection and relatively dry air, temperature should not be a factor.
this and it explains jerky...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3JetOoEngs 