Yummy Jerky recently submitted another great and popular Jerky Hut brand beef jerky to be reviewed by the blog, Best Beef Jerky. We were rated #2 overall hottest jerky ever and 3 stars overall. Now if you want some HOT jerky, you CANNOT get hotter unless you step up to the Ghost Chilli jerky! This is the HOTTEST habanero jerky!

Here are some snipets from the review:

Next in the series on Jerky Hut is this Chernobyl variety. Chernobyl is described as “The Total Meltdown” and “Painfully Hot”. It’s part of the Habanero line of jerky, which includes the Montezuma’s Revenge and Nitro.

Chernobyl contains the following ingredients: beef, water, corn syrup solids, seasonings (salt, sugar, brown sugar, maple sugar), spices, crushed red chili peppers, teriyaki sauce, smoke flavoring, worcestershire sauce, black pepper, monosodium glutamate, salt, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.

The first thing I taste is a lot of chile pepper flavor followed with a good deal of burn. There’s a light sweetness and saltiness. The chewing flavor starts with saucy flavor and slightly increased saltiness. There is a bit of natural meat flavor noticeable.

Yummy Jerky presents the 3 star jerky - Chernobyl - PAINFULLY hot!

It seems to hold up well to its namesake. There is a good deal of burn. I rate it a 5 out of 5 on my hot level. It’s still not the hottest jerky I’ve ever had, but could easily compete for the second hottest. I can feel my blood warming up from the capsaicin rush, my scalp starting to sweat, my nose running, and my eyes misting. The burn is not quite stinging, stabbing heat that cuts into my tongue the moment it touches, but it does come quickly enough. For those of you who love really hot food, this will suit you plenty.

This jerky has a simple flavor, primarily the flavor of chile peppers. There’s a light sweetness I pick up from the surface, a moderate saltiness, and very light natural meat flavor. I also pick up a bit of smoke flavoring.

Overall, what you’re going to notice is a strong burn, and a lot of red chile pepper flavor. You’ll get a light sweetness, moderate saltiness, and a very light natural meat flavor.

These are slices of whole meat, cut into slabs of medium thickness, and in small, medium, and large sizes. This is a dry jerky with a dry surface. But it still has a flexible, pliable quality. Biting off pieces require some work, gnawing and tearing. Chewing seems a bit easier, but still rather chewy, or lightly tough. It starts off tough and requires some laborious chewing before it starts to break down. Once chewed down to a soft mass, it feels somewhat mushy, with a light meaty feel, but not really steak-like.  There was no fat on these, nor any gristle or tendon.

In terms of clean eating, I get a lot of red chile pepper flakes flying off as I tear pieces apart, but otherwise no residue sticking to my fingers.

YummyJerky.com sells this Chernobyl variety from its website at a price of $10.00 for a 4oz package. If you bought six packages, the shipping to Southern California works out to $6.54, for a total of $54.54. That works out to a price of $2.27 per ounce.

The jerky seems to be a fair value. I’m getting an average level of snackability, due to a satisfying flavor, decent meat consistency, and average chewing texture. As an extremely hot beef jerky, at the same $2.27 price per ounce, it is a good value. I’m getting a great deal of heat, quite a bit more than many other brands that seem to exaggerate their claims, or build up your expectations and not deliver.

I’m giving this a three star rating out of five. This Chernobyl variety from Jerky Hut and Yummy Jerky delivers on its claims to be “Painfully Hot”, generating a lot of burn, enough to keep me wiping the sweat off my forehead and neck throughout writing this review. It’s a jerky for those who can handle REALLY hot foods. If I were to rate this jerky just on heat alone, I’d award it five stars out of five.

But for folks who wants LOTS of burn, and who love the flavor of chiles, but want it in a meat snack, this is definitely your calling.