Smoked Tri Tips

[tom in nc]

So my brother in law has an annual chili cook off contest with the family & neighbors. Two years ago I won on a whim with a regular chili but it was crazy hot with habaneros. Last year I won with a smoked pulled pork chili with chipotle peppers. This year I wanted to try something different using smoked trip tip. Over the summer I smoked a tri tip following Jeff's recipe from his newsletter & it was fantastic. That's when I hatched the plan to make a chili with it and win the chili chowdown for my third straight year. So if anyone has some good chili recipes, let me know. I have 2, 3 LB smoked tri tips to test out on chili recipes.
The tri tips I smoked today were sitting in the fridge overnight in Ziplock bags, each with 1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce & 6 TBS of Jeff's rub. I smoked them on my WSM with 3 chunks of hickory & 3 chunks of cherry until they hit 145*F. I pulled them, wrapped them in foil and threw them in a cooler with some towels for a couple of hours.

On to the Q-view...

Trimmed off the fat cap...

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Each on in their own ziplock bag with Worcestershire sauce & Jeff's rub...

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Smoked on my WSM over with hickory & cherry chunks for flavor...

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The thinner one (lower one in the picture above) hit temp first...

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A little while later the larger one was ready...

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Thanks for looking and let me know if you have a killer chili recipe I can use with these babies!

 

[socalq]

Looks good! Would you mind posting Jeff's tri-tip recipe?

Thanks!