Smoked Eye of Round - Roast Beef! (heavy pics)

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SmokinVOLfan

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Had an eye of round in the freezer for a few months now and every time I go to open it it just stares at me wanting some smoke. Well Saturday was the day.

Started out with a good size hunk.
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There was a lot of fat and silver skin on this one so had to do some trimming
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The pile looks a lot bigger in the picture than it actually was. Did kind of hack job in a few spots trying to get all that silver skin off.

Ready for injection and rub. Injected with low sodium beef broth, rubbed down with A1, and coated in montreal steak seasoning
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Put them in the smoker at 225. Have a new Inkbird I have been wanting to try out but ran out of time and didn't have time to get it setup so used the ole TP-20

Nice TBS can barely see
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(And yes! I did save that pan of goodness to make Au Jus)

When the roasts reached 125 I pulled them off and took them over to my grill which was running about 600 and seared the whole outside.
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Let them rest and cool down on the counter for a little while
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Tossed one in the fridge for later slicing and one in the freezer. Pulled the one out of the freezer about an hour and a half later for slicing. Here are the sliced shots from both days.
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Had a French dip one night(forgot to get a pic) and then this one last night which was toasted bread, horseradish, swiss, RB, and a little cheddar under the broiler for a few
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If you have never done this I highly recommend. Its 10x better than any lunch meat you are going to buy at the deli counter. Only regret is I should have done 2 of them! This stuff goes quick in my house! Thanks for looking

John
 
Great looking sammies John(see how I got your name correct this time). I'm overdue for some roast beef... We'll see what I can do about that. Nice cameo by the PBR and Coors. Open faced brown gravy sammies sounds real good.

Point for sure
Chris
 
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WOW that looks killer!!! I will need to try this cook for sure - added to the list. LIKE
 
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Dang John, that looks awesome. Nothing like smoked roast beef.

Dave

Thanks Dave. Now I gotta wait till they go on sale again. Normally you cant get the bigger ones in the cryopack unless you go to Costco or Sams but found that one at Kroger's and sprung on it. Go Vols
 
Looks amazing !! I think it's high time I tried one of those !!

Thanks Gator. I highly recommend it you will never want to buy roast beef from the deli counter again. I run it through my cheapo slicer on a 1 which is the lowest setting mine will go but shaves pretty thin
 
Great looking sammies John(see how I got your name correct this time). I'm overdue for some roast beef... We'll see what I can do about that. Nice cameo by the PBR and Coors. Open faced brown gravy sammies sounds real good.

Point for sure
Chris

Thanks Chris. Hard to beat home smoked roast beef. And you know the cold beers always seem to sneak into the pictures. Guess ill just have to put them down quicker next time
 
WOW that looks killer!!! I will need to try this cook for sure - added to the list. LIKE

Thanks man. Give it a shot. Its a quick fairly easy smoke. Hit it with the meat slicer super thin! I think eye of round is the best cut for this purpose IMO
 
Great Job, John!!
Looks Perfect !!
I just did another one just about like yours, and they always beat anything in the stores.
I wonder if they call it "Eye" Round because when I open my Freezer, mine stare at me just like yours do.
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