Live Fire Grillen

[Tri Tip]

Used up about $10 worth of red oak on this cook. Since I cannot sell the misses on a Santa Maria Grill,

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I decided to turn the South Central 4000 into a Santa Maria style pit. I cooked a 3 lb sirloin roast for about 1hr over a pure red oak live fire. Never done this before. I thought I was hip usen lump. I have been watchin Raichlen re-runs on PBS and that dude is always cooken over live fire wood! I can’t not mention Surfensapo too! Wow it tasted worth the effort of tending a fire for an hour.

 

[Smokey Lew]

You are now an official COWBOY - boy! Very interesting cook.

 

[californiagrillin]

Nice Cook!! How did the meat taste? Was it overpowered by the smoke??? Have yet to try red oak, so not familiar with the smoke flavor of it. Is it a subtle smoke or a strong robust smoke?

 

[Tri Tip]

Nice Cook!! How did the meat taste? Was it overpowered by the smoke??? Have yet to try red oak, so not familiar with the smoke flavor of it. Is it a subtle smoke or a strong robust smoke?

I thought it would be way smokey but it was a nice subtle Red Oak flavor. I usually sear it over lump than Smoke Roast offset with a chunk of Red Oak. (much easier) I cooked with the lid open the whole hour as they do on a Santa Maria pit. If I closed the lid the fire would suffocate and it would smoke like crazy. Most likely would have been too smokey. When your in the Orange/Anaheim area stop by the Wood Shed. They sell hugh bags of every kind of smoke wood emaginable. Its pretty cheep too. 30 lb bag of Red Oak is $24. Red Oak gives meat a flavor like no other I don't realy even like smoke aspecially Hickory I probably will not do this again. I'm going to buy a Santa Maria Backyard Pit and use logs, and only for huge parties. The wood is too expensive to use for one roast.

 

[Shores]

Looks like fun. The only time I cook over "live fire" is when I'm camping. Otherwise, my heat source is charcoal with wood chunks for flavor. Thanks for sharing TT.

 

[ScottyDaQ]

It does look like fun.... What Shores said.

 

[bbquzz]

Wow it all looks good TT, nice arsenal of CI pans too

 

[Helen_Paradise]

What source are you using for the wood?

 

[Tri Tip]

What source are you using for the wood?

Red Oak

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