Customer Reviews

SnackMasters Salmon Jerky Original, 2-Ounce Packages (Pack of 8)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I admittedly liked this product. People thinking "I like smoked salmon" may be thrown by this product at first, but think "jerky!!" Very chewy: the larger pieces can give your jaw a good workout, and every once in awhile you hit a peppercorn which makes your eyes water (in a good way). Good salmon flavor. I would be a happy consumer except that I have run into moldy strips in two separate orders. Got the 8 pak, and on pak #6, almost the entire contents were fuzzy. An e-mail to the company got absolutely no response, but Amazon was kind enough to replace it in spite of it being a generally non-returnable item. Unfortunately, the replacement jerky also had a white fuzzy mold pocket in one pak. Not in every pak, but since you tend to chew jerky while busy doing something else (fishing, driving, whatever), it gave me the creeps knowing how little I looked at most of this stuff when shoving a strip "in between my cheek and gum." Eat in good light and keep your eyes open.

This salmon jerky is so unbelievably tough, it is pretty much inedible. And when you do painstakingly gnaw on it, it doesn't release much flavor, but instead just turns into sharpish little sticks in your mouth. I had the misfortune of ordering this, and 7 of the 8 bags are still untouched, and I'm not sure what to do with them. I even tried soaking the jerky, and tried boiling it with some macaroni, and NOTHING seems to soften this stuff up! What a waste of money. Go for some beef jerky instead, and if you need salmon, eat it fresh or canned. This product is a joke.

This California style salmon jerky tastes great, but a little overly dry and hard to chew, in my opinion. Still it is nice to have, and it is very funny to see looks on people faces when you offer them salmon, somewhere on a trip in the middle of nowhere.

I bought both the Ahi Tuna Jerky and Salmon Jerky. Both were dried out and brittle. Absolutely the worst.

Incredibly, the Salmon Jerky was worse (i.e., drier, harder) than the Ahi Tuna Jerky.

Most of the strip were either hard and brittle or so tough they could barely be chewed. They put no expiration date on the bags so I don't even know if I was given old product or they allowed the salmon to leave the processing plant this way. On top of this, they were too spicy. My dog seemed to enjoy it though.

The Ahi tuna, on the other hand, was great.

The taste is good and spiced well, but it is really dry and hard.

Don't bite down too hard until you understand how hard and chewy this is! Good taste but a bit too dry for me. I will eat what I ordered but won't reorder. I'll keep looking for a good salmon jerky.

This product does not have an overpowering smell of salmon and taste-wise it was ok. It sort of taste like a piece of onion with salt and a bit of pepper.

I bought this today for the first time thinking it would be great because it was Salmon. I was wrong, very wrong.

Where Snack Masters losses all it's credibility as being, "Snack Masters" is in the texture of this jerky.
How can they expect people to eat this stuff? It is very dry, rough, and sharp. If you've ever held wood bark in your hands then you know what it is like to hold this jerky.
If you try to snap a piece in half it makes the same noise as if you were breaking a chicken bone. I have a headache from trying to eat this stuff and I'm expecting puncture wounds in my stomach any minute now.

If your teeth are made out of knives give this a go, if not stay clear.

Taste: 6.5/10
Texture: 1/10

I have ordered the SnackMasters Salmon Jerky a number of times and have never been disappointed with the quality. Until today, my co-workers and I like to have a little salty treat in our otherwise very sugary snack station, so I have taken to ordering the jerky. When the shipment arrived today we expected the same as we have had before, only this time it was AWFUL. I have read others reviews stating the jerky was hard as a rock and thought they exaggerated for effect, I learned today they are not. This will be the last time I order this product and I would hope that Amazon would take to providing a little better quality control on items like this. It's all fun and games `til someone loses a tooth.

Some pieces were kinda hard to chew, but overall I love this jerky. Taste is great. Price seems good considering it's dried salmon.