Posts Tagged ‘too quiet’

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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National Harbor, MD

Sorry it’s been so quiet apart from the sound of crickets around here lately. First off, my actual day job took me to the other side of the country for the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting near Washington DC which mostly involved being trapped in the conference hotel for a week (I did manage to try one place that offered good bbq chicken and ribs though…). As it was a Saturday->Saturday trip, this wiped out two weekends which could have been used for barbecue.

After getting back from that trip, we had visitors staying with us who were not likely to be up for trying bbq. During the time our visitors were here, I got sick with a cold just before Thanksgiving, which put paid to a plan to attempt a smoked turkey…. Anyway I have finally had a chance to cook a new recipe so there is a new cook report coming soon. I also hope to have the first restaurant/dining out “review” article up (assuming the photos turn out OK) from a rib place we visited near LAX while waiting to return our visitors to their waiting aircraft.