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Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« on: April 15, 2018, 12:41:16 PM »
Curious, two prime tri-tips hit 130 (my low target temp - top shelf tri-tip ended up higher) while my S1 had barely broke 190.  Total time about 1hr 30min.  Is this normal?

I'll be doing a reverse sear after resting so no results yet, just surprised it went so fast.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2018, 04:56:14 PM »
I could see that depending on how small they were.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2018, 08:21:28 PM »
90 minutes to get to 190 is a bit peculiar.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2018, 10:49:32 PM »
Were they straight out of the fridge or room temp? But 90 mins isn’t much shorter than what I’ve run a few times on tri tip.

Were they good at least 😁
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2018, 02:00:31 AM »
Just fired up the smoker for a butt tonight, 25 degrees outside (crazy Wisconsin weather!). It took my #1 an hour and 15 minutes to get to 225. Since your meat got to 130 in 1.5 hours, which sounds like it could be normal, I'm wondering about the accuracy of your ambient probe. Maybe it was touching the meat? Or getting dripped on? Or maybe it's just inaccurate? You could try testing your probe.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2018, 01:10:09 PM »
Thanks for the feedback all.  I suppose they were on the smaller side and somewhere between out of the fridge and room temp, also being a mild So Cal climate, I'm just going to assume they're a faster cook to temp. which I'm ok with.

Good call on the ambient probe, I'm going to test that out.

At the end of the day, they were great!  We actually had a last minute birthday party invite, so I brought them wrapped and just finished them on the grill.

Next time I'm going to cut back on the smoke (5 oz was too much), and will shorten the rest period (unintentionally long this time).
Erik in Southern California

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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2018, 06:50:39 PM »
Erik, now that you have one under your belt, think wood quantity relative to smoke time.  If smoke time is less than 2 hours, I tend to go with 1 oz. to 2 oz. depending on the meat being smoked. Long smokes like pork butt and brisket are in the 8 oz. range for me.

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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2018, 10:10:11 PM »
Looks tasty to me Erik.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2018, 10:01:08 PM »
Thanks, David.

Dave, good call on the wood adjustment, thank you.  Glad you said something otherwise I probably would have overshot again with 3 oz the next time.
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2018, 06:41:04 PM »
Sounds normal, to me.  I did a 3.27 lb bone-in "cowboy" ribeye tonight that only took 2:20 to get to 129.  I doubt your tri's were over 3 lbs each, were they?
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Re: Tri-tip to temp before S1 hit 200?
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2018, 07:46:54 PM »
Sounds normal, to me.  I did a 3.27 lb bone-in "cowboy" ribeye tonight that only took 2:20 to get to 129.  I doubt your tri's were over 3 lbs each, were they?

Late reply, but figure follow-up would be helpful for the thread.  Definitely wasn't over 3lbs.  Looks like ultimately just a quick smoke is all.

Just did a sirloin cap a couple weeks ago (also less than 3 lbs).  Used only 1.5oz of wood this time.  Got to target temp of 115 in just over an hour.  Threw on the grill for the reverse sear.  Man, it was delicious.
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