Archive for the ‘tri-tip’ Category

It’s been a while and the original plan to do a long slow cook of Beef Ribs didn’t happen due to having a really busy end of the week and not getting the order in. Plus the idea of getting super early on Sunday to get them going lost appeal. When time is poor, but need for meat is high, time to turn to the speedy standby of Tri Tip by Reverse Sear. See how it came out by reading on.

Tri-tip on the direct heat of the Weber Kettle for its final searing

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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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