The strip loin roast came out pretty near perfect for Christmas. To recap, I started with a 16.5 pound roast that I picked up from Sam’s club. After trimming it, it was probably closer to 15 lbs.
The trimmings.
Seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic and some lawry’s seasoning salt.
Wrapped it back up and let it sit in the fridge till Christmas morning. I think it got about 36 hours or so to sit in the seasoning. Christmas morning after the kids opened their gifts, onto the grill. Temps were running about 275-325 during the cook. Smoked for about an hour and a half until roast reach 120. Wrapped it up and off to the grandparents.
Roast was finished in the oven at 500 degrees for about 10 minutes.
After resting, the roast got to 140 degrees internal which was a bit higher than I was shooting for, but it came out really well.
Made some au jus to go with it. Had a pan under the roast in the drill with some onion, leeks, garlic, carrots, tomato paste, my homemade beef stock, and some salt and pepper. This was finished on the stove with some corn starch to thicken it just a bit and a dash of worcestershire sauce. No pics.