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Title: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: foshizzle on June 03, 2017, 07:35:34 AM
I cook tri tip pretty regularly and never saw this before and today I saw it on two separate tri tips bought on different days at two different stores. I cut it open and the inside looks just like the outside. Strange.

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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: FrugalQ on June 03, 2017, 07:45:28 AM
Cow seed?
Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: MINIgrillin on June 03, 2017, 07:51:13 AM
Secret message from Baron Harkonnen?
Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: MINIgrillin on June 03, 2017, 07:53:18 AM
An ad campaign from chick-fil-A.

"Eat more chicken"
Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: foshizzle on June 03, 2017, 08:09:17 AM
I'm cooking it and will be taking it to a family lunch later. Maybe I'll let my mother-in-law eat it first and see what happens.


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: 1buckie on June 03, 2017, 09:37:08 AM
Got yerself a nodule there son..... 8)
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Post by: blksabbath on June 03, 2017, 09:53:19 AM
Rubber bullet?


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: foshizzle on June 03, 2017, 10:39:28 AM
Looks like best bet is a nodule. Thanks for your diagnosis. I cut it up and found some more weird stuff. Strange.

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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: kettlebb on June 03, 2017, 11:32:11 AM
What is a nodule and is this part safe to eat or should one discard that section? If my wife saw that she'd make me cook something else for dinner.


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: demosthenes9 on June 03, 2017, 04:53:57 PM
That would be in a bag and going back to the store/butcher that it came from.
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Post by: hawgheaven on June 04, 2017, 07:54:36 AM
Never saw that shit before. Yup, that wood have gone back to the retailer IMHO.
Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: foshizzle on June 04, 2017, 10:42:36 AM

That would be in a bag and going back to the store/butcher that it came from.

That's probably the smart thing to do but thought I'd live dangerously. Just cut off and tossed the bad part and ate the rest...if I don't make it and you don't see any more posts from me you know why.


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: varekai on June 04, 2017, 12:12:46 PM
cut it out and grill on, I come across these about every other tri tip I trim... Personally, I don't really care what it is, or don't WANT to know what it is, I remove it and fire up!!
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Post by: DirectDrive on June 05, 2017, 04:18:33 PM
Make a sandwich out of it and give it to the guy at the off ramp.

:D
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Post by: WMT on June 05, 2017, 06:19:49 PM
Looks likes moose turd. For the price I pay for beef around here there no way no in hell I would have done anything but take it back to the butcher. That piece of meat around here would have been $40-$50. That's why I mostly do pork
Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: Dan in SC Ca on June 05, 2017, 08:36:09 PM
I'd say time to see what I can microwave in the freezer for plan B


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: Mike in Roseville on June 05, 2017, 08:39:52 PM
I have been eating tri-tip all my life...and buying frequently it since I began grilling 18-20 years ago. I have wondered the same thing. I always assumed its some sort of nodule/blood clot.

I have only seen one on a handful of tri-tips that I have personally trimmed...ever. I have NEVER seen one on a trimmed tri-tip from the butcher. From the untrimmed ones, I have always cut it out and cooked the meat. However, if I bought it trimmed, I would have returned it and may take it back on my untrimmed ones from now on if I see it again.

That black stuff on the end (post cook pic) however, is something I have never seen. I would have definitely taken that back. What grade of meat are you buying?

Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: foshizzle on June 05, 2017, 10:08:22 PM

I have been eating tri-tip all my life...and buying frequently it since I began grilling 18-20 years ago. I have wondered the same thing. I always assumed its some sort of nodule/blood clot.

I have only seen one on a handful of tri-tips that I have personally trimmed...ever. I have NEVER seen one on a trimmed tri-tip from the butcher. From the untrimmed ones, I have always cut it out and cooked the meat. However, if I bought it trimmed, I would have returned it and may take it back on my untrimmed ones from now on if I see it again.

That black stuff on the end (post cook pic) however, is something I have never seen. I would have definitely taken that back. What grade of meat are you buying?

It was angus grade and bought at either Walmart or Sams club.


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Title: Re: What is this on the tri tip?
Post by: ryno5000 on June 10, 2017, 06:43:41 AM
It could be an infected lymph node. I wouldn't eat it, that's for sure..lol.

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