If your only make a few pounds at a time the nes-co work just fine and the smell will drive your dogs nuts. Mine will just sit and stare at it and drool.
For us toothless old duffers I dry my jerky to shoe leather then run it through a coffee bean grinder. Comes out like snuff so you can put in a pinch and enjoy.
Lots of red and white { no travel advised} and 94 from Fargo to Bismarck closed, 29 from Fargo to Watertown closed and 13 from interstate 29 to Wahpeton now closed. Time 6:30 Sat. NDDOT travelmap.
Snow coming down at a pretty good clip, flakes went from small to snowball size in just a coupla minutes. Not much wind yet. Its 10 oclock on a Saturday.