Tri tip use to be a trash cut ! Santa Maria ca a rancher would get a bunch of them for a big bbq every year ! Over a red oak wood pit with Santa Maria style seasoning 🔥 one of the best ways! Smoke and sear is hands down second best method 🔥🔥🔥
Only a handful of people in my area know what a tri tip is, for whatever reason people in the Shenandoah Valley aren't open to them unless they came from somewhere out west!
Really?? It's not like the meat the cut is somewhat a secret!! A lesser cut that needs longgggger grill cook time for greaterrr results. Makes great sandwiches on quality breads or rolls
Not a secret, it just wasn't marketed in the east coast region like it was the west. It is a fairly new cut and east coast consumers tend to be more traditional in their preferences.
@@_Magnum_Opus Got'cha I was east coast my first 1/2 of life now west. But my mom (single mom with 5kids and white before it became trendy) ........cooked tri tip way back when and the London broils, chucks etc (lesser cuts do to price) and cooked them long and slow to feed her tribe!!! That's where I learned my love for cooking and stewing or baking meats to get them from tough to tender tastes etc. All or most poor'er cultures who cook well have LONG stew or cook times for their lesser cut meat recipes Mexican foods, middle eastern, indigenous and frugal white country large families!!! GOOD STUFF
@hfactor6429 I feel ya on that, raised by a single mom myself however I was an only child. Truth be told I can't speak for people in the northeast because I have spent very little time up there but in Virginia, Maryland and WVA I have only been able to find tri tips in the last 10 years. I worked in the meat industry for a while and nobody knew how to cut one properly here but in their defense very few customers requested it. When I traveled to the lost coast of norcal I was introduced to the tri tip and loved it instantly. After I came back east I noticed that backyard catering and smoked meats have become a big deal here during the summer months but nobody knows about the tri tip. Everyone here uses the chuck and that's great but I like sirloin cuts for smoked pit beef!
I don't know why more people don't eat this. It is an extremely flavorful meat. You just have to know how to work with it and you've got yourself a hidden treasure
@@gurudeshmukh8780 It is true that I haven't heard of this cut until today. But how is me saying it looks like the surface of the sun indicative of that??
