How do I make Jack Links Beef Steak Nuggets?

Come on! Someone has had to have tried to duplicate those tasty nuggets of meat candy

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Second, I need to know how to replicate these because they are just too damn expensive

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You'll never make them cheaper than they can make them and sell them to you. They use Grade Z beef that isn't even available to the public and they buy it by the ton. Then they put a bunch of cheap chemical stuff on it to simulate a smoke flavor and they buy that by the ton as well. Just keep buying it at the store if you like it.

ETA: I like these nuggets too. Don't mean to belittle your taste, but if you're looking to do them cheaper forget it.

Might try chuck roast, put it into the freezer until almost frozen then cut across the grain maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cube if you like and marinate in the fridge for a day or two in teriyaki sauce or one of those dark brown steak sauces (dale's steak sauce). Add liquid smoke if you like.

Start really small and experiment with the marinate sauce.

Spread on a cookie sheet and cook off in the oven at lowest setting (maybe 200) for a few lours, watching so that you don't burn them or leave them in the oven past the point where then are dry and not to the meat bricks level.

Jack Links are basically thick beef jerky.

Deer would work for this.