It started with chicken jerky
When our founder, Ben, started making his own chicken jerky, he relied on a basic, manual jerky gun. Scaling up production quickly turned into a nightmare. A hand-powered extruder meant the quality of every strip depended on human perfection. Too little pressure and it was paper-thin and prone to burning; too much and it was fat and wouldn’t dehydrate evenly. It took hours of exhausting manual labor, and the strips were almost never the same.
The gap in the market
Ben went looking for a machine to automate the extrusion — something reliable, precise, and sized for a small-to-medium operation. To his surprise, it didn’t exist. The market only offered massive, million-dollar industrial setups for mega-factories, or glorified manual caulk-guns for home hobbyists. There was a wide-open gap for growing businesses — so he decided to fill it himself.
Engineering the solution
Ben set out to build the exact machine he wished he could have bought. Combining hands-on production experience with modern design tools, he worked through iteration after iteration — analyzing, tweaking, and perfecting every detail until the machine performed flawlessly, batch after batch.
Enter the Meat Bot
Today the Meat Bot is in production and on the floor. Built from stainless steel with a food-grade aluminum top plate — and sanitary Tri-Clamp fittings that adapt to almost any setup — it takes the guesswork out of meat forming for commercial kitchens, butchers, and jerky makers. By solving his own problem, Ben built the machine the industry was missing.
Stop wrestling with the jerky gun. Let the Meat Bot do the heavy lifting.
