This is how our butcher shop cuts Tri tip. It’s not like the cuts you see out west. Unfortunately I overcooked it for my liking, it still tasted pretty good though. I had a meater probe that wasn’t properly charged and it didn’t last.

by Equivalent-Collar655

40 Comments

  1. CoatStraight8786

    Looks like a bavette to me. Tritip has 2 different grain directions and this is basically one.

    Find a new butcher.

    Still a good cut of meat though.

  2. Equivalent-Collar655

    No, it had two, it’s tri tip, just different than you know it

  3. Dr_knowitall69

    That would be the worlds biggest cow if that was a tri tip.

  4. Nerak_Tihson

    Grew up out west, now living in beef country. The tri-tips in both places look the same, I cook them regularly, and that isn’t a tri-tip.

  5. t0mt0mt0m

    Came here to say it looks like bavette rather than tri tip but others beat me to it. Tritip and bavette take wet marinates very well and it would help w retaining more moisture. I run my Kalbi recipe on tri tips and bavette cuts since they’re so similar.

  6. ArcadeKingpin

    Definitely not a tri tip. I’ve been cooking tri tip professionally for quite some time and with 1000% certainty this is not tri tip.

  7. rizorith

    That is not a tritip but im sure you can cook it like one

  8. Plenty_Roof_949

    As a Californian that grew up almost exclusively on Tri-Tip, it wasn’t until recently that I discovered its mainly a California thing. Even on BBQ pitmaster tv shows I was shocked to see it was a foreign cut to some contestants. I’ve heard about the California exodus to Idaho and they weren’t able to find tritip at the store but so many of the Californians were asking for it so they stock it around there now.

    This post is another example of how unfamiliar people can be with it…

  9. Reinstateswordduels

    Dude, as a fellow Marylander, even some butchers here don’t know what tri-tip is. That is not a tri-tip

  10. WetBandit06

    Definitely not a tri tip. Looks good tho.

  11. Exotic_Increase5333

    Not bad but looks drier than hell.

  12. Confirmed. That’s not a tritip. 🤙🏻😂

  13. Slow_Remote9349

    I use garlic and rosemary stuffed into my tri-tip and then rub with seasoning salt (I use johnnys) – so good like that! You can smoke it, barbecue it, bake it, etc taste so good with that garlic and rosemary stuffed in there. Plus the shell that is created around it when barbecuing or smoking is phenomenal.

  14. crazydogs99

    Idk if this is a tri tip or not but I’d eat the shit out of that dude

  15. LEGOFTURKEY

    lol not a tri tip at all. Like me calling a pichana a ribeye and saying “it’s the way they cut it”.

  16. Do yourself a favor and change the title to “Tri Tip”

  17. gert_beefrobe

    This isn’t even part of the sirloin, which is where the tri tip is cut from

  18. rollinupthetints

    From this butcher, which does he charge less for, bavette or tri tip ?