Try Tri-Tip!!!

[Santamarina]

As a California native I’ve cooked countless tri-tip. Done right it’s beefy flavor and tenderness can’t be beat…if done wrong it’s nothing but shoe leather.

Medium rare (125-130°F) cooked over an oak fire with nothing but salt, pepper, and garlic on it. Front sear is traditional for the Santa Maria style, but I prefer reverse sear.

They cook quick - couple hours - and if overdone your jaw will be in pain. Slicing against the grain is mandatory. More than any other cut I’ve cooked, how you slice a tri-tip makes a huge difference. Perfectly cooked but sliced wrong…tough. Slice it just right and you don’t even need a knife to eat it!

Is it readily available here in Southern California? Let’s say this…I’m 45 years old and don’t recall a time in my life when I went to the market and DIDN’T see tri-tip.

[Dr J]

Tri tip is one of my favorite cuts. Flavorful, always tender, cooks fast, yield is big. I love wildforkfoods.com as well of the meat I get from there has been well marbled and good quality even the choice cuts. It is worth paying the unlimited free shipping for 27 bucks a year. I have to plug the absolute best Tri tip I have found is Costco’s prime two pack amazing marbling and flavor and cheapest price.

[surfdog]

Dewesq55 Yeah, being a natural product, they can sometimes be less than optimal.
That said, it’s well worth another go.

[LDimick]

My very favorite samy is thin sliced tri-tip, soaked in beek stock, (Usually "Better Than Boullion") on sourdough with mayo on one half and horseradish on the other half. Sometimes I throw on some sauted mushrooms.

[jfmorris]

The only beef around here that is $3.99 a pound is ground beef right now.

[jfmorris]

klflowers she is improving, but still limited to no weight bearing on the broken leg, which limits mobility a lot. Thanks for asking. I need to post an update!

[klflowers]

Thstis surprising. We have a couple near us. By the way, how is Yvonne?

[Dewesq55]

surfdog - I'm pretty sure I sliced it correctly. It was just chewy. I'm sure that one of these days I will give it another try. Maybe a long-ish sous vide bath and sear like Skip

[Redwng]

Welcome from St. Cloud, FL. We always have at least one tri-tip in the freezer, fantastic with a reverse sear.

[Sweaty Paul]

Salutations from Hays, Kansas!

[Troutman]

Only question I have, did you share some of that tri-tip with Rocky and Bullwinkle?

[TripleB]

Like surfdog said, it’s very common in So. Cal. I’ve got 4 in the freezer. And it was just on sale last week at Smart n Final and Ralph’s for 3.99 lb trimmed.

[jfmorris]

klflowers there used to be a small butcher shop near here, and might be one still on the other side of town from me, but I've not seen an actual butcher shop here in many years. A quick google on the topic turns up one on the north end of Huntsville that has been in business since 1984, but that is about it.

[klflowers]

Welcome from TN. I think I have a tri tip in the freezer just waiting.

[klflowers]

Have you got any local butchers? I get them from a local butcher here.