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.......