The Steaks are in - Kansas City Steak Company

The Steaks are in - Kansas City Steak Company

Kansas City Steak Company

The Order Process

Kansas Steak Company made the order process real easy.  There web site is very easy to navigate and also informative.  They do have a 12.95 flat rate shipping.  If you place and autoship they will waive the shipping charges.  I placed my autoship for 6 month down the line but you can easily go on there web site and reschedule it for sooner or later or even pause the autoship.  You can also select the date you want your order to arrive.

They frequently have deals and specials so click the sale link and see what you can find. Also be sure and pay attention to the banner at the top of the page.  The day I ordered they had 2 free 14 oz bone in filets with any order over $100.  They also have great prices on Add on Items.

Note there are at least 2 other ways to get free shipping.

1 - If you order prime beef you get free shipping

2 - If you have a promo code you get free shipping.

First Impressions

They came well packaged in a heavy duty Styrofoam cooler with dry ice.  I ordereed 6 steaks 2 Filets and 4 T-Bones.  Each selection came inside a cardboard box and shrink wrapped.  They arrived frozen in excellent condition. Each box contained a seasoning packet.  It also came with a cooking suggestions book and $25 off your next order of $75 with free shipping.   

The Cook

They recommend leaving in the vacum seal  packaging.  The directions say thaw in refrigerator for 24 hors prior to cooking.  I seasoned with my normal dry rub so I could see how the taste measured up to my local butchers T-Bone.  I cooked them about 5 or 6 minutes per side until an Internal temperature of 140 at 350. I did use Grill Grates and was able to obtain nice sear marks,

The Taste

The steak did taste good,  It was a little grizzles in parts.  The steaks at my local butcher tastes much better and for a significantly lower cost.  I do have 5 more T-Bones Left and plam on cooking them a little differently next time.  I will use the porterhouse recipe on traeger web site which includes smoking for 30 to 45 minutes and then doing a reverse sear.  

Customer Service

They do seem to have really great customer service.  When I cancelled my auto ship they asked me why and i stated I could get a better quality and better tasting steak from my local butcher for less so they sent me 2 more T-Bones.  I sure do hope they taste better.  I will update as soon as I do the cook.

Grilled Iowa Chops and Baked Potatoes

Grilled Iowa Chops and Baked Potatoes

Grilled Iowa Chops and Baked Potatoes

The notorious “Iowa Chop” is the seriously thick* and succulent pork chop, cut from the lower back of the hog, just behind the rib. Recently dubbed the “Porterhouse Chop”, they have a characteristic T-bone shape, with a substantial amount of loin meat on one side of the bone and a portion of tenderloin on the other side.  The thickness (1.25-1.5 inches) of this chop led it to be coined “The Iowa Chop”, in the 1980’s by the Iowa Pork Producers Association. The Iowa Chop is still in high demand and is used widely still today throughout the Midwest and beyond. The above defination of an Iowa Chop taken from the Web Site http://foodandswine.com/

Iowa Chops are one of my favorite things to grill on the Traeger.  They always come at tender and Juicy.  It really is the most perfect meat.  I often grill them with sweet potatoes and pineapple, but for this cook I changed it up a little and cooked baked Potatoes with them.  I did have pineapple left over from yesterday Ham Steak and Pineapple cook.  I didn't brine or marinate this time.  I used Trader Joe's Coffee and Garlic rub.  You can use your favorite rub or just salt and pepper.

Ingredients:

6 Iowa Pork Chops about 1 inch Thick and 1 LB each (T-Bones)

Your favorite Dry rub for Pork

4 Large Baked Potatoes 

Preperation

Wash Baked Potatoes

Cut in 1/2

Wrap in foil

I used a smal half to clean and season grill

Rub Pork chops with your favorite rub.

I used Trader Joes Garlic and coffee rub

Grill Setup

Start Traeger on smoke for 10 minutes with lid open'

Preheat lid closed to temperature 375

The Cook

I placed the Potatoes on the grill for about 50 Minutes 

After 50 Minutes I placed Pork Chops on grill

After about 7 minutes I flipped the Pork Chops

I Continue to cook the Pork chops  till an Internal Temperature of 140 degrees

The Wrap and Rest

Once desired temperature reached remove from grill tent with foil and allow to rest for 15 to 30 minutes

Name Brand Pellets Bargin Prices Mail order

Name Brand Pellets Bargin Prices Mail order

Bargin BBQ Pellets

I love  the convenience of shopping from home.  I dont enjoy getting in the car driving to the store and fighting thru the crowds.  Don't get me started on those parking lot's.  When It comes to BBQ Pellets I have found some of my best Prices Mail order. I recently posted about Sportsmans WareHouse having various brand pellets at 50 to 60 cents a pound mail order.

Lately I have noticed you can get great prices on Pellets at Walmart  Just Click this link and look down the left side of the page for anything that says shipping pass. It has been my experience that anything that says shipping pass will offer free shipping on orders of $50 or more about 80 to 100 pounds of pellets.  You would also have the option of free store pickup if you prefer or for just 1 bag.  I have recently seen Trager pellets for less then $13 for 20 lbs as well as Pacific Gourmet Pellets for $11.76 a bag.  Check the link often you are bound to find something you like,

Bucket List Recipes

So many recipes so little time

As I surf the BBQ Websites I find what I like to call my bucket list recipes.  I use to save these recipes to pinterest and sometimes I still do but some of them are so good I want to place them in my Blog also.  They will always state that they are a buck list recipe,  As with any bucket list I hope I never get to all of them but its fun to dream.

Hamburger Wrapped Mozzarella Hot Dog

Above picture and recipe from SlapyoDaddyBBQ.com Link below
Hamburger wrapped mozzarella hot dog

Harry Soo  who runs Slap Yo Daddy BBQ Blog, is a Grand Champion Pit Master.  When I stumbled on his site my BBQ Bucket list seemed to grow exponentially.  I wanted to cook virtually every recipe on his page,  Here are just a few that made my mouth gush water falls, those saliva glands were working so hard.

Bacon wrapped pineapple mozzarella rings

Swedish Hasselback Pit Roasted Cheesy Bacon Potatoes

Bacon wrapped donuts

Because its not only about the bacon

Grilled Waygu Tuscan Tomahawk Steak/

Smoked Grilled Coffee Crusted Tomahawk Steaks

Barbecued Pineapple Pork Loin Ham

Barbecue Chicken w Alabama White BBQ Sauce and Whiskey Hollow Barbecue Beans

Lobster Caveman Style

SYD Barbecue Ribs with Pico De Gallo

#BucketListItem

Are You Ready for Some football

Are You Ready for Some football?

fOOTBALL AND TRAEGER

The Football season is right around the corner and nothing seems to improve football more then some food on the Traeger.

Click here for hot dog post

Click here for my pizza post

Here are some Traeger Recipe for good football eats

Big Game Day Ribs

STICKY TERIYAKI PORK & PINEAPPLE SKEWERS

BACON-WRAPPED POULTRY PORK SKEWERS

Meatball Onion Bombs

Brats in Beer bath

Pulled Pork

Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese

Simple Steak

Flat Bread Pizz 3 ways

Super Bowl Food The Ultimate Football Food

Some of My Favorite BBQ and Grilling Website

Some of My Favorite BBQ and Grilling Links

BBQ and Grilling Links

All Things BBQ

Amazing Ribs

Every Sunday The BBQ Pit Boys have a new Video Recipe.  Most if not all of there recipes are easily adaptable for the Traeger

BBQ Pit Boys

Legendary Pit master Aaron Franklin's PBS show with many video episodes of all things BBQ

BBQ With Franklin/

One of the first recipe pages I found and still one of my go to's

Date Night Doins

Great Recipes using GrillGrates

GrillGrate Recipes

Malcom Reed of Killer Hogs BBQ Team has a great recipe page with many videos

How to BBQ Right

Over 1200 BBQ Sites

The Smoke ring

Smoking meat has some great recipes this is where I got my idea for grilled lobster.  I havent purchased his sauce or rub which he pushes in almost every recipe.

Smoking Meat

Recipes and more with Videos

The Smoking Pit/

Thermoworks the maker of Thernapen and Thermopop among many other Thermometers has a blog.  It has many topics including grilling and maintenence of your Thermometers

Thermoworks Blog

The Traeger Recipe page is amazing.  It's recipes are purpose built for use on the Traeger and they have a huge number of them and are constantly adding more

Traeger Recipes

Hot Dogs and More on the Traeger

Hot dogs AKA Tubular Meat

The great thing about hot dogs and other Tubular Meat (Sausages and Brats) is you can always seem to squeeze a few on the grill.  I like that best at a high Temperature 375 or more to get a good char

but pretty much any cooking method works as long as your get the proper internal temperature.

Most of the time I just cook them as is but every now and then  I do prefer a Beef Hot Dog like Nathans. The Brats and Sausage are often Pork Products

 I do something special like wrap with bacon, or better yet stuff with cheese then wrap with bacon.

Here is the Traeger recipe for Bacon Wrapped Cheese hot dog

Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Hotdogs

As you can see I have cooked hotdogs all by themselves.  I have cooked them with hanburgers and pineapples, pizza and pork chops and pizza.

Just Hot Dogs

Pineapple, Hamburgers and Hot dogs on the Junior Rack

Hot Dogs and Pizza

Hot Dogs all alone

Hot Dogs all alone