Hello Pit Masters,
Well, I broke down and purchased a Costco membership, mainly for easy access to USDA Prime beef. I purchased a 2lb prime tri tip Friday for my first tri tip cook in my recently purchased Camp Chef PG24 DLX pellet smoker.
I dry brined the TT with 1tsp kosher salt Friday evening, with a plan to cook it Saturday afternoon. Saturday at cook time, I rubbed it with Meatheads' Mrs O' Learys Cow Crust Rub. That stuff is great for beef! Loved it. I made the paste as per Meathead's recipe and slathered it on the roast. I made a 1/4 recipe of the cow crust, which worked great for the 2lb TT:
I recently bought "The Wood Pellet Smoker & Grill Cookbook" by Peter Jautaikis, and I followed his smoked tri tip process: I smoked it for 1 hour on the PG24 "low smoke" setting, which is actually a high smoke setting, but at ~160 degrees. So it is a low temp - high smoke mode. I used mesquite pellets. After one hour the IT of the tri tip was 87 degrees. I then bumped the smoker temp up to 325 and cooked it another 30 minutes until the IT 125:
Next I moved it to the Weber Gensis on Warp 10 and finished up to ~140:
The TT came out great! Nice smokey nose/flavor, tender and juicy!!! YUM!
Also made a chimichurri too, from thetritipguy.com, which was very tasty too!
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