Rookie Tomahawk Attempt

[FishTalesNC]

My wife went out to pick up "a few things" last night, and came home with a 2.5lb Choice Tomahawk from Sams Club. (!!!) Never had one before so I read up on what I could find here and crossed my fingers. I trimmed and dry brined it at 2pm today. At 5pm I had it on my 26” kettle w/ SNS. No water in the SNS, and it was full of briquettes with about 20 white hot ones on one side to start. Lid down, vent opposite SNS over the meat opened about halfway. The plan was to keep the ambient temp around 225F and slowly bring the thing up to 125F before searing it. Took about 1:45 to come to temp, longer than I expected. Meanwhile my wife made hassleback potatoes for the first time btw - I win AGAIN! When the 125F alarm sounded, I took the lid off and hit it with vegetable oil and fresh ground pepper and gave the fuel about 10 min to breathe and get angry. My attempt to sear was comical - I always have major flare up issues. I ended up searing 15 seconds at a time, pulling it and letting the flames die for 5-10 seconds, flip and sear again... rinse/repeat for ~15 min while occasionally checking the sear in the dark. I do still have my eyebrows, so there’s that. Bummers: thin grey strip under an uneven sear, not sure what to do to avoid instant 8” tall flames and get a better sear other than try Grill Grates. ? On the plus side: it tasted fabulous, I was happy with what for me was a very stable ambient temp in my kettle with very little fidgeting, and my wife and I had an awesome dinner while our daughter was at a birthday party. Booyah. 👍🏻

[barelfly]

That looks great!

[DWCowles]

Beautiful!

[FireMan]

First off, it looks great! Second, if it tastes great, which you said it did, who gives a rip about an 8” flare up! Take a pic, submit in feed the flame & go back to eating exquisiteness. Fine pics.

[FishTalesNC]

Thanks FireMan, that’s sound advice! If it’s dancing on my taste buds, no rips will be given about anything else!

[texastweeter]

I sear in black iron, but if it taste good to you, EAT IT!!!!

[texastweeter]

went back and looked at the photos closer, only the edges seem a little overdone, the rest of the steak looks great.

[Jerod Broussard]

Thanks a lot! That money shot second to last pic has me picking up steak at wolly world at about 0200hrs CST.

[FishTalesNC]

Excellent, my work here is done! 😂

[Jerod Broussard]

FishTalesNC I actually got two.

[FishTalesNC]

Jerod Broussard Double your pleasure, double your fun! 👍🏻

[bardsleyque]

That turned out awesome! Meat and potato's oh yeah!!!

[texastweeter]

tell your wife the HB taters look legit

[FishTalesNC]

Thanks texastweeter I will do that! We had sour cream, fresh bacon crumbles and chopped green onion for toppers. I think these will be in the regular rotation. 👍🏻

[Spinaker]

Great looking cook. I mean who doesn't love a Tomahawk?

[Harold Gross]

How thick was it?

[FishTalesNC]

I’m not exactly sure, didn’t measure, but I’d guess 2-2.25”.

[Mr. Bones]

Delicious lookin' cook!