First Attempt At Tri-Tip

[Star1021Scott]

Hey Everyone, I've been registered for quite some time, but this is my first post. Hopefully the first of many! I find many excellent best practices from this site!

First attempt at Tri-Tip.

I stopped by my local meat market and picked up a 2lb tri-tip with the idea of incorporating it into salad. So here we go first tri-tip experience
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Using a simple rub of pepper, garlic powder, and kosher salt
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Fresh produce along with some bacon
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Tossed, if you will
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Set the MAK to "Smoke" and put the Tri-Tip on, opted to go ahead and utilize the grill grates on this one.
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Utilized Apple Wood, mixed with a small amount of Mesquite. I set up the Pellet Boss to run smoke setting until internal temperature reached 100 degrees, and then bumped up to 225. My target on this was 130, about 2 hours 15 minutes later I hit it, and foiled and removed from the MAK. Bumped up the setpoint to high, after about 10 minutes at 485, I utilized a reverse sear. After 15 minutes of rest, I removed from foil and placed it on the cutting board. Somewhat of a money shot here..
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Final Product
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Overall, first experience with Tri-Tip. Wow, what an amazing cut of beef. This was awesomely moist, very flavorful. I can now understand why some call this the poor mans prime rib.
I will definitely be putting Tri-Tip as a regular on the menu here at the house, my wife loved it!

[deepsouth]

looks awesome!

[Boshizzle]

Great job, congrats! :clap2:

[45fan]

That looks Perfect!

[socalnewb]

Awesome looking Salad!

[Beerbecue]

I don't know where you got that roast but it clearly is not a tri-tip, but it looks tasty anyway.

[inv3ctiv3]

Yea I've never ever seen a tri-tip cut like that, not sure it was actually a tri-tip. But it does look good!

[el_matt]

That's a nice looking piece of meat, glad it was tasty(cooked just like I like it). I've got to add to the possibility that it might not have been a tri-tip.

Matt

[h20loo]

I had a sirloin tip that I thought was a tri-tip, smoked it like a tri-tip, ate it like a tri-tip and bragged about it like a tri-tip. It was excellent and I have done a few since. It looks like your piece and I bet that was awesome. My favorite rub on a tip is Montreal seasoning.

[Star1021Scott]

Thanks for all the comments. As for the question as to whether this was tri-tip. All I can tell you is the meat market I frequent had this labeled as "California Tri-Tip." Now with that being said, I am in Tennessee, not sure if the butcher knew any better. We're a little slow around here.