Tri tip silver skin

[Rod]

Gonna do my first tri tip from Creekstone tomorrow. The silver skin completely covers one side. It was partially on the other side. I removed that partial. It does not pull off like pork ribs and my knife skills suck.

So is it okay to leave it on? Is there a trick to removing it without sacrificing too much meat? The Costco ones never have any silver skin.

[Red Man]

It won’t pull off. You slide a sharp knife under it, angle the blade up toward the silver skin as you slice to minimize meat loss. I don’t think it’s a big deal to remove it all. I’ve never gotten it all off my tri tip or brisket and I’ve never even noticed it on the finished product.

[Jerod Broussard]

Some like to lay the meat silver skin down, then do as mentioned above, only inverted. Silver skin is my biggest gripe on deer backstrap.