WHAT? "tri-tip marinated in teriyaki sauce"
You have to be kidding!
Tri-Tip deserves to be slow cooked over Red Oak coals, marinated in only salt, fresh ground pepper and fresh ground garlic!
Santa Maria, Ca is the Tri-Tip capital of the world!
Some people cook it very rare, I like it done so there is a little bit of pink in the center.
Since I can't get Red Oak up here I'll BBQ it over Mesquite. And for a change-up I'll lay on some BBQ sauce for the last 5 minutes of cooking.
Tri-tip is a triangular piece cut from the bottom of beef sirloin.
Butchers like Dykes refer to tri-tip as "bottom sirloin," part of the top sirloin and part of the sirloin tip. "In the old days," he explains, "the butchers had a cut they called the 'standard cut' which had top sirloin on one side, the bone in the middle, then the filet, and the tail part was the tri-tip. Only nobody knew it."
Somebody who did know it was a Texas meat man whom Dykes remembers as "Mr. Tri-tip." He brought tri-tip to California "by the truckload, tons of it. But he couldn't sell it, so it was used for hamburger. "
The breakthrough, according to local barbecuers, came in the late 1950s when Santa Maria butcher Bob Schutz innocently placed the end cut seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic salt on a rack in his rotisserie. Forty-five minutes later he shared it with fellow workers who were amazed at its unique texture and flavor.
Schutz promoted his "tri-tip" and taught customers how to prepare it. Williams Brothers picked up the idea and began to market tri-tip through its Central Coast stores where customers quickly came to appreciate its taste and, at least at that time, low price compared to other cuts of beef.