Re-reading the initial post I want to add this: I'm not sure if this cut of meat has enough collagen in it to help the smoking process...usually you'd want a cut that is tougher, higher fat content, something that will "melt" during the long soak in the heat. Any time I do a pulled beef for sandwiches I try to find a nice clod at the local BB, BJs butchers will accommodate most requests. Sam's Club can have some tasty looking product too. Roasting rather than smoking should be the best route. Get the flavor on the outside of the meat with a nice hot searing fire, just like in the old days when men were cavemen and women...well, they were still women. I guess. I wasn't there.
Idk either, won't know until I break the kryo bag, I bet it's pretty clean, but again idk. With all the sugg3stions I'm thinking a bunch of steaks from the middle and save a big chunk from each end for a good roast, but it seems smoking is probably of the table....
Here's pic of a low cost hunk of beef, something that would be destined for boiling to death as a pot roast etc. Top round maybe? Cooked up a couple of them. Then at least 4 good sized butts, and 120 pcs or so of chicken thighs, Roadside marinade and basting. The beef was on the smoker for ~15 hours @ 225º, sitting under a couple of pork butts. The beef and pork both brought up to ~195º internal. Had 3 WSM smokers going at the time, big yearly party I cook for. Shredded out beautifully. Tasty as all hell, just a salt and pepper rub, but getting drenched by the butts above with a multi-spice rub on them. Had kids coming back to the food table looking for "more of the good meat".
I cut this big thing up this afternoon, it was in the cryo bag and kept just above freezing until now. Got a bunch of steaks and saved the ends for roast beef sammies.
Vac bags, saved 2 and trimmed em nice for din din tonight. Steak Au Poivre. I'll do the linky thing with pics.
And its USDA Choice as well. But than again I do not think Costco even deals with USDA Select. Just Choice and i have heard you can even find Prime there at times in Brisket no less. But Its been so long since I have been in a Costco I would not know about that, its just what I have read on some BBQ sites
Try sous vide with a vac sealed steak. Been fiddling with it a bit lately. Some of the best damm steaks I've ever had.
