Archive for March, 2017

Santa Maria-style Tri-tip

Wow, its been a while hasn’t it… ? A combination of lots of travel, meetings, holidays and other problems has meant that there has been a definite lack of barbecue action (and even what little BBQ action has happened such as the pulled pork I made for the Superbowl has not been written up here). Today we are going to try and rectify this by a cook of Santa Maria style Tri-tip. While I have cooked this before (I’m pretty sure cooking of it is mandated in CA’s overly long Constitution…), I don’t think I’ve recorded the process and I’ve also never been fully happy with how it has turned out (as the state BBQ dish pretty much, it seems important to me to get it right…). So inspired by a different method proposed by Meathead in his amazing book which Miss AdventuresInBBQ got me for Christmas, I decided to give it another go via the method of reverse searing.

The tri-tip undergoing its final sear over direct heat just before it comes off the grill.

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