There was a time when tri tip was the main stay of ground sirloin :realcrazy:. Nobody wants these funny lookin' hunks of meat. Grind 'em up. When I moved up here in '80 and discovered them after some practice I BBQed some for my MIL the caterer, she loved them. I could get them for $.99/lbs here, she found one butcher shop in in a very high rent part of San Diego that had them and they were $10/lbs :lol: And some good smoke never hurts either. No, not that kinda smoke. Oak, Hickory, Mesquite kinda smoke.