Tri Tip, One of The Best Cuts of Beef IMO..

[wob]

tri-tip's a very forgiving cut. pretty much anyone with some amount of grilling experience can do a decent job with it because it's fairly well marbled (meaning it's fairly tough to dry out on the grill). it also absorbs rubs well, which means that it can be fairly easily flavored.

In the hands of a good cook, tri-tip can be superb.

tri-tip's a very forgiving cut. pretty much anyone with some amount of grilling experience can do a decent job with it because it's fairly well marbled (meaning it's fairly tough to dry out on the grill). it also absorbs rubs well, which means that it can be fairly easily flavored.

In the hands of a good cook, tri-tip can be superb.

So I hear...

 

[gmarshall7]

tri-tip's a very forgiving cut. pretty much anyone with some amount of grilling experience can do a decent job with it because it's fairly well marbled (meaning it's fairly tough to dry out on the grill). it also absorbs rubs well, which means that it can be fairly easily flavored.

In the hands of a good cook, tri-tip can be superb...in the hands of the inexperienced, however, it can turn out quite poorly.

what?

 

[yooper]

I can't buy it here.

 

[calstyl2]

I think they use another term for similar cuts outside of the SW, some loin cut, a good butcher could set you up.
If that dont work I can get you some Costco Tips and send em your way.

 

[Liam]

I can't buy it here.

it's taken from the bottom sirloin...

 

[yooper]

it's taken from the bottom sirloin...

I know that. Nobody cuts it here and so far I've found noone locally that is willing to - this is the wrong market for anything besides burgers and Bud Light. I can't buy Prime beef except in one store out in the middle of nowhere about 40 minutes from here and he usually only has like two cuts.

A friend of mine who grew up in CA (tri tip is his favorite meal) finally found a butcher downstate that would make him one. It's a 6 hour drive from here. He travels for his job so he gets one when he knows he's going through that town, but that's not very often.

I think they use another term for similar cuts outside of the SW, some loin cut, a good butcher could set you up.
If that dont work I can get you some Costco Tips and send em your way.

Thanks but the shipping would triple the cost.

 

[BrotherRob]

I know that. Nobody cuts it here and so far I've found noone locally that is willing to - this is the wrong market for anything besides burgers and Bud Light. I can't buy Prime beef except in one store out in the middle of nowhere about 40 minutes from here and he usually only has like two cuts.

A friend of mine who grew up in CA (tri tip is his favorite meal) finally found a butcher downstate that would make him one. It's a 6 hour drive from here. He travels for his job so he gets one when he knows he's going through that town, but that's not very often.




Thanks but the shipping would triple the cost.

It obviously comes on every cow. Check with your butcher, they may be calling it something different in your area.

 

[yooper]

It obviously comes on every cow. Check with your butcher, they may be calling it something different in your area.

How do you get from my post that I don't know what it's called and that I haven't talked to every butcher in the area? There is one real butcher here and they weren't interested when I asked them. The grocery store idiots just give me a blank stare. They are grinding it up or using it for stew meat or something.

 

[splitshot]

How do you get from my post that I don't know what it's called and that I haven't talked to every butcher in the area? There is one real butcher here and they weren't interested when I asked them. The grocery store idiots just give me a blank stare. They are grinding it up or using it for stew meat or something.

Damn, a true waste if they are grinding into burger..

Maybe I missed it, but do you have a Costco in your area? The meat dudes seem to be a little more helpful than the smucks at the local grocery store.

 

[yooper]

No Costco. Small town, 20,000 people, and it's the biggest town for 100 miles...

Tri-Tip is a California thing, noone in the midwest knows anything about it...

 

[Liam]

How do you get from my post that I don't know what it's called and that I haven't talked to every butcher in the area? There is one real butcher here and they weren't interested when I asked them. The grocery store idiots just give me a blank stare. They are grinding it up or using it for stew meat or something.

ground most of the time. Butchers dont want to clean it, kinda like a flat iron...too much work

 

[splitshot]

No Costco. Small town, 20,000 people, and it's the biggest town for 100 miles...

Tri-Tip is a California thing, noone in the midwest knows anything about it...

ground most of the time. Butchers dont want to clean it, kinda like a flat iron...too much work

Time to move west..

 

[Liam]

Time to move west..

he can order it from Buckhead Beef and they will fedex it to him...however it's not worth it.

 

[sparkplug]

ground most of the time. Butchers dont want to clean it, kinda like a flat iron...too much work

My buddy from Texas says flat iron is the sh*t. I have never had it but he is always talking about how good it is. Have you tried it, and if so what do you think about it?

 

[Liam]

My buddy from Texas says flat iron is the sh*t. I have never had it but he is always talking about how good it is. Have you tried it, and if so what do you think about it?

flat iron is awesome...comes from the shoulder blade and use to be called a Jewish Chicken Steak if i remember correctly. The University of CO figured out how to seem it out and make it usable. You cook it quick because it's thin but it has great flavor and is usually well marbled.

It used to go into grinds until they figured out they can sell it for $6/lb

 

[nicholas]

I have had tri tip once. No one in my area carries it often. But when I did have it, I grilled it and was super impressed. I cooked three of them, and ate all three.

If you ate three tri tips in one sitting it wasnt a real Tri Tip cut or your full of s***............

Perhaps lunyou was talking about some of these. Costco had the regular tri-tips and these tri-tips that were cut into 12-14" strips:

 

[calstyl2]

Thats not the way its supposed to be done, should be about the size of a nerf football.

 

[NorCalDoug]

sometimes the whole tri-tip is cut in to steaks -- sometimes these are called coulotte or culotte steaks or tri-tip steaks.

 

[surfpig]

sometimes the whole tri-tip is cut in to steaks -- sometimes these are called coulotte or culotte steaks or tri-tip steaks.

Yep...

I used to buy the ends of the mignons from my local market for cheap, theyre like tiny tri-tips but OMFG so good. I asked about them at another market that sells good meats and they said, oh, we just grind that up into hamburger meat.



That's some good s*** right there...

 

[lunyou]

Perhaps lunyou was talking about some of these. Costco had the regular tri-tips and these tri-tips that were cut into 12-14" strips:

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That is what I was talking about.....I'm not an expert on meat so I just had to go by what the packaging said it was.

They were still good...and I still can't find any more anywhere.