Patent ID: 7870820

Claim:
A jerky mold that facilitates the preparation of a jerky food product, said jerky mold comprising: an impaler having a plurality of interconnected, supported partitions having an upper surface and opposing edges, the partitions being adapted to impale a moldable meat dough; a plurality of sectors spatially separated from one another and having a pre-determined configuration and defined by said partitions being arranged in a pre-determined pattern that separates said meat dough into a plurality of meat segments having a size and shape corresponding to that of said sectors; and a backing removably attached to said impaler and supporting said impaler, wherein said backing provides a temporary stop to said meat dough to prevent said meat dough from passing through said sectors as said meat dough is impaled and received into said sectors, and that subsequently releases from said impaler to provide an exposed surface to release said meat dough from said impaler.