Brandt Farms Tri Tip Marinated By Rameys Meats, Alongside Some BBQ Chicken Tenders (:

[ThunderDome]

Awhile back I made a post about Ramey's Meats. A small meat shop in Brawley, CA which I was told had the worlds best Carne Asada. I bought a few tri-tips since they were also highly spoken of. They sell Brandt Farms beef.

It turned out so well, I had a co-worker pick me up 4 more and bring them this way. I picked up 3 marinated, and 1 plain. The marinade is a santa maria style marinade and it's awesome.

Also, my wife wanted some BBQ chicken, and she only likes breast meat, so I picked up some breasts and trimmed them up to tender sizes.

Cooked it all over Kingsford Comp on my 18.5" Weber Kettle, with some cherry chips. I let the coals burn down so it had a chance to get some smoke on it before it was done.

Here's the marinated tri-tip thawed out.


The chicken tenders, in my buddy's famous 50/50 BBQ Sauce to Picante Sauce mixture


Good lookin Tri-Tip. I would guess <2.5 lbs


Got the Weber kettle set, and the food is ready to go on


Almost had to break out the 22.5 for this one to get the corn on


The cherry chips working their magic


Pulled the TriTip @ 143 and foiled loosely for awhile to set


Great color and texture


I poured some of the au jus from the foil back over what I had sliced up


The plating. By far the most tender TriTip I've ever had. The chicken turned out great too. For once I didn't dry it out to cardboard

[curious aardvark]

Looks great

Although I still have no idea which bit of a cow a tri-tip is :-)

[ThunderDome]

Here's a good article on wiki

And a pic

[Doug S.]

[gmotoman]

Good looking Meat, and plate. I do have one ? about your cook. It looks like in the pic that you are direct grilling. Did you have to tend the fire a lot to keep the chicken from burning since you put the Q sauce before the cook? Or by (as you mentioned) letting the fire burn down a bit that it isn't an issue.
Again the meal looks so good I tried to take a bite out of my monitor.

[Savannahsmoker]

That looks really good and wouldn't y'all know, no Tri-Tip in Savannah, Ga. Please send Tri-Tip to the Savannah stores for us deprived folks.

[crusty ol salt]

again great sorrow racks my heart for the complete lack of the legendary tri-tips in my area.

with that said ya done that bad boy right

[ThunderDome]

Good looking Meat, and plate. I do have one ? about your cook. It looks like in the pic that you are direct grilling. Did you have to tend the fire a lot to keep the chicken from burning since you put the Q sauce before the cook? Or by (as you mentioned) letting the fire burn down a bit that it isn't an issue.
Again the meal looks so good I tried to take a bite out of my monitor.

I know exactly what you mean, but thanks to the resident kettle grill experts on here, i realized i've been using much too much charcoal for many of my quicker cooks. A chimney full really will do a lot, and I used to put soo much more in.

Also, I did let this charcoal ash over 100% and then some before putting any of the meat on, so that helped from flames and flare ups

[Fire it up]

That's a beautiful mouth watering shot right there!!!!!!

[Slanted88]

Slice some more up! I'm hungry & that look's great! If I find one of them tri-tip's around Panama City...we gonna jack one up!

[Zeeker]

Great looking plate Thunder. Kudos...

[Squirrel]

Wow that looks great! We don't have that cut down here, at least not where I've seen. That plated shot is MONEY!

[ThunderDome]

Wow that looks great! We don't have that cut down here, at least not where I've seen. That plated shot is MONEY!

I just had my buddy order 4 more. 2 marinaded 2 plain. $60

[Kyote]

lookin good fer sure. seems the summer here tri's are the thing going on the grill. and they are good any way we have cooked em so far.
and your look juicey good.
I think I have half a case in the bottom of the chest freezer. must dig em out this evening and prepare for the week end gathering of the meat eatin pack.lol.

[sweet_magnolia]

Wonderful job!!! I tried my first tri tip Friday. OMG!!!

again great sorrow racks my heart for the complete lack of the legendary tri-tips in my area.

They are in Kentucky now so they are getting closer to Virginia!