Wild Fork Tri-tip

[fxsales1959]

So I had a prehistoric primal desire for beef. aa earlier noted, made my first in-person visit to Wild Fork.
Went in with a fairly open mind, with a budget. Aft3r perusing the beef section We decided on Prime Tri-tip.
After seeing the marbling in the meat i could only go with coarse ghround black, coarse Kosher salt and a skosh of garlic powder. Decided on using he MES30for the cook stage, because I know a I could get an even 230 with light smoke. Used oak and hickory chips. (no tube) The sear stage challenged me between digging out a cast iron griddle or heating up the blackstone. In retrospect, the griddle does not get a hot as cast iron, so I'll know next time.
While doing thsi, i had bought some low sodium better than bouillion (Its not low sodium) and whipped up a gravy drizzle in case the tri-tip was dryish. anyway. pulled at 130 and rested 5-10 min before the slice.
My photography skills still suck.

 

[bmudd14474]

looks wonderful

 

[Texas Cookin']

Wow that is some fine looking beef! Nice job.

Fred

 

[DemonPit]

Looks delicious!

 

[Nodak21]

Looks great. How did it taste?

 

[Fueling Around]

Nice, John. You and Linda ate well.
Yeah unless it states NO sodium the reduced is simply a marketing ploy from excessive to normal.

 

[fxsales1959]

Looks great. How did it taste?

it was deliciuous, just what we anticipated

 

[MJB05615]

Looks excellent. Great work. I get most of my Steaks etc from WF. Quality and price are much better than the Grocery stores.

 

[mr_whipple]

That looks exceptional. And I feel ya... I can't take a picture to save my life.

 

[JLeonard]

Great looking piece of beef!

Jim

 

[civilsmoker]

I would eat that!

 

[SmokinEdge]

That’s my kind of beef, looks delicious and very nice work on your part.

 

[philpom]

Looks lovely, great job!

 

[Redicans]

That looks Amazing!! Mouth is watering looking at that!!

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

That looks great. Salt pepper and garlic powder is how it is done out here. Coastal Oak is the tradition but I like to add hickory myself.

I don't think you could have made it any better.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Looks good from here!

 

[tx smoker]

Wow, that looks spectacular. Truly perfect cook on that piece of meat. Could not have been done any better, and it's a GREAT cut to prep and cook the way you did. Very nicely done.

So I had a prehistoric primal desire for beef.

Hmmmm....I can relate. Very familiar with this desire, or maybe we just call it "instinct" for the sake of justification

Robert