Meat & Taters sleep creeper.......

[1buckie]

OK...............

Finally got some pics to work.....still have to get a more streamlined setup, as I have fire up the wife's toad-ass computer & get PhotoPhucket to comply, then find where her comp decides to dump the pics, then wait for PB to load up.....then write up the story in the normal way......it's a pain, lately.....

Anyways, here's today's bright idea......


Found a tri-tip (PB lost those photos of the raw meat) that was 4-3/4lbs......dawgs began hovering early on this one..........

Loaded up a fat half snake of Stubb's, injected the tip w/ Tony's creole butter / jalepeno & rubbed heavy w/ Weber's Honey / Garlic........



The wife comes up with the idea to slab up some taters, season & wrap in bacon.....not a bad plan, sez I......





Propped up an 18" pop-out cast iron grate w/ firebricks, over the tri-tip.....



Checked in once at about 35 minutes & things seemed to be moving along slowly, but moving along still the same.....

.....then promptly went in, flopped on the couch & went to sleep.....




3 hours later, thought I might get up & check in to see if dinner was wrecked.....







Seems like it was over-shot, but guess again.....
(Pterodactyl for scale, this thing didn't lose that much cooking @ 250~260 for 3 hours)



These suckers were perfect~~~>



Bend test tells somewhat of a tale.....



medium well to well & it was still melt-in-mouth tender.......slowing down the cooking doesn't hurt these at all.....and it started out life as a Select grade piece.....

[austin87]

There you go! Looks pretty good to me!

[MacEggs]

Cooking on a Weber kettle .... No monitoring of temperatures, no fussing about with anything, really.

And, everything was done when it was done ... And, you were well rested.  That is what it's all about. 

Outstanding, Ken. 

[MikeRocksTheRed]

Looks good to me!  Send me over a chunk of that to thin slice for some sandwiches on my meat slicer....I promise I'll send some back to you!  LOL

[1buckie]

Looks good to me!  Send me over a chunk of that to thin slice for some sandwiches on my meat slicer....I promise I'll send some back to you!  LOL

I think there might be enough.....



never get a good pic of labels, but 4.76# @ $2.98 per..........

800 grams after trim.....



Second largest one I've ever seen.......