Tri Tip Success!

[Stevo]

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!

[Stevo]

sorry about duplicate pics...i struggle with the interface for adding pictures...

[Mr. Bones]

Yeah, me too... Nice Pics of yer cook, though! Thanks fer sharin'!

[HawkerXP]

Looks great!

[SlushDeezey]

Wow! Looks great. I love chimichurri. That looks like it came out of a Brazilian steak house.

[Steve B]

Beautiful cook. Making me jealous. I'm just doing burgers tonight. they should be good though, I ground them up myself. But I'd still take the tri tip any day.

[Steve B]

JCBBQ also just realized. Which Steve me or Stevo?

[JCBBQ]

I think I got so excited that someone near me found tri tip that I didn't realize it wasn't you who started this post 😀 Ooooh I definitely want to take you up on a field trip to view your LSG!

[Steve B]

JCBBQ Cool did you get my # You can give me a call.

[Stevo]

Thanks all. This was my first tri tip that really came out excellent. I attribute it to all the great knowledge on this site.

[Mr. Bones]

Well, there's that, plus th' fact that yer awesome!!! ;-)

[Livermoron]

Nice cook!

Being from Central California, I've always had an affinity for tri tip. Like you, I discovered the prime cuts at Costco. We use Meathead's BBBR and smoke it on the Weber rotisserie over 2/3 oak & 1/3 apple for about 40 minutes and then sear it to finish if off. It's a great cut of meat.

[tbob4]

Don't you just love/hate Costco. I have a prime brisket and two prime tri-tips pre-rubbed in the fridge today. The brisket is for a potluck at work tomorrow, one tri-tip is for tonight and the other is for guests coming over tomorrow. If it weren't for Costco I would have brought chips and dip to the pot luck, had pizza for dinner tonight and told the guests to eat before they arrived tomorrow.

[ecowper]

That Tri-Tip looks outstanding! Great job ... TT is my favorite cook, bar none.

I actually buy the two pack of choice Tri-Tip at Costco and find that if you dry brine for 3-4 hours and cook them slow (like you did) they turn out fantastic. I haven't noticed enough difference that I buy the Prime anymore. Costco's Choice is quite a bit better, I've noticed, than Kroger's Choice, though.

[Livermoron]

I plan on grabbing a Costco two pack and cooking them up for our neighborhood Halloween party!

[Jerod Broussard]

I love when you look at a piece of beef and there a sooo many lines of fat lined up for ultimate goodness.

Great job!!

[Quailsroost Smokers]

Beautiful !! I love chimichurri sauce too !!

[Spinaker]

You'll be happy with your membership. And you'll make the money up quickly if your buying meat in any kind of quantity. Plus most of it is available in PRIME!

[Skip]

Very nice Tri Tip. Looks Great!!

[Nate]

Looks delicious... wish I had a Costco in my area.