Yesterday was a banner day at Casa TX. First was a delivery of beef chuck bone-in short ribs. When John (
chilerelleno
) posted his behemoth beef ribs, I knew I had to find some. An exhaustive search of every possibility in our area turned up nothing. On a whim I asked my sales manager at Certified Piedmontese if he had anything like I was looking for and turned him onto the thread John had posted. There was a pause almost as if he was deciding to tell me or not. Well, he ultimately told me. CP apparently has a wholesale division that is not well known. There is no website and no advertising done. They cater to only a small handful of restaurants and specialty meat markets. When you take into account that less than 1% of the beef produced worldwide is CP, it stands to reason that this is a pretty exclusive market. Well, Joe managed to pull some strings and got me permission to order from the wholesale side of the operation. The upsides are incredible meat, true wholesale pricing, and free shipping. The downside is that you have to buy in bulk. Oh well....I'm fine with that 
I ordered a case of bone-in chuck short ribs and they delivered yesterday. In the packaging they don't look all that impressive but doing the math, they must qualify as "behemoth". There are 6 packages with 2) 4-bone rib sections per pack. That makes a total of 48 ribs. With the entire order being just over 50#, that means on average each rib is over 1#. Those are not wimpy ribs!!
This is opening bell for my early Christmas. Next is a call from UPS that they are on the way with my new Rec Tec RT 700 Bull and would be here around 6:00, last stop of the day. That was fine because I was at my little pub having an adult libation (another familiar theme??). The driver showed up right at 6 and unloaded the grill into the garage. Weather forecast for today was just nasty, and they finally got one right. It's been miserable. I asked him to put it in the garage so I could put it together inside if it was raining. At that point, I was not about to start with tools. A couple beers and a margarita in the pool is where I draw the line with anything that requires dexterity or thought. Fast forward to today. Got home from work around 9:30 this morning and started unpacking it. Once done, that required a nap (not really) but did have engineering reports to write for work. After those were done, I started putting it together. Compared to the Santa Maria grill, this was a cake walk and required no loss of blood or appendages. Finished putting it together, out to the patio, plugged in, and we are doing the initial burn. Total build time was about an hour and a half. They recommend having 2 people but truth be told, the 2nd person would have been in the way most of the time. There were a couple times it would have been nice to have that second set of hands to line bolts up with holes, but not worth having somebody else there the whole time. This was one of the easiest builds I've ever done. Taking my time and being by myself, it was complete in less than a hour and a half.
Built and on to the patio
Patio is getting a bit busy, but I'm OK with that....till I find something else I just can't live without I'm pretty much out of room. Had to put my 20# stainless steel digital sausage smoker and one of the storage cabinets in the garage, then move stuff around, to make this work.
This is one busy corner!!
Thanks for looking. i just love it when Christmas comes early!!
Robert
chilerelleno
) posted his behemoth beef ribs, I knew I had to find some. An exhaustive search of every possibility in our area turned up nothing. On a whim I asked my sales manager at Certified Piedmontese if he had anything like I was looking for and turned him onto the thread John had posted. There was a pause almost as if he was deciding to tell me or not. Well, he ultimately told me. CP apparently has a wholesale division that is not well known. There is no website and no advertising done. They cater to only a small handful of restaurants and specialty meat markets. When you take into account that less than 1% of the beef produced worldwide is CP, it stands to reason that this is a pretty exclusive market. Well, Joe managed to pull some strings and got me permission to order from the wholesale side of the operation. The upsides are incredible meat, true wholesale pricing, and free shipping. The downside is that you have to buy in bulk. Oh well....I'm fine with that I ordered a case of bone-in chuck short ribs and they delivered yesterday. In the packaging they don't look all that impressive but doing the math, they must qualify as "behemoth". There are 6 packages with 2) 4-bone rib sections per pack. That makes a total of 48 ribs. With the entire order being just over 50#, that means on average each rib is over 1#. Those are not wimpy ribs!!
This is opening bell for my early Christmas. Next is a call from UPS that they are on the way with my new Rec Tec RT 700 Bull and would be here around 6:00, last stop of the day. That was fine because I was at my little pub having an adult libation (another familiar theme??). The driver showed up right at 6 and unloaded the grill into the garage. Weather forecast for today was just nasty, and they finally got one right. It's been miserable. I asked him to put it in the garage so I could put it together inside if it was raining. At that point, I was not about to start with tools. A couple beers and a margarita in the pool is where I draw the line with anything that requires dexterity or thought. Fast forward to today. Got home from work around 9:30 this morning and started unpacking it. Once done, that required a nap (not really) but did have engineering reports to write for work. After those were done, I started putting it together. Compared to the Santa Maria grill, this was a cake walk and required no loss of blood or appendages. Finished putting it together, out to the patio, plugged in, and we are doing the initial burn. Total build time was about an hour and a half. They recommend having 2 people but truth be told, the 2nd person would have been in the way most of the time. There were a couple times it would have been nice to have that second set of hands to line bolts up with holes, but not worth having somebody else there the whole time. This was one of the easiest builds I've ever done. Taking my time and being by myself, it was complete in less than a hour and a half.
Built and on to the patio
Patio is getting a bit busy, but I'm OK with that....till I find something else I just can't live without
I'm pretty much out of room. Had to put my 20# stainless steel digital sausage smoker and one of the storage cabinets in the garage, then move stuff around, to make this work.
This is one busy corner!!
Thanks for looking. i just love it when Christmas comes early!!
Robert
