Coffee Crusted Chuck Roast, Fiesta Potatoes and a Garlic Skillet

We have done a few big chuck roasts now, because they taste great. What I like most about doing these big roasts is that someone always has them on sale. This is a big 8 ½ pounder that Patti found for less than $2.50 a pound. We ate roast beef burgers, BBQ beef sandwiches with a little Country Bob's and stringed beef burritos all week. Patti likes to just put a piece of the meat in a bowl with no sides, just great beef. She calls it her hunk of cow.

That is a lot of good eating for very little cash and with that full beef flavor. This guy was tender and juicy with a nice smoky coffee kick. I made some changes to the rub and how I smoked it, all good…

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 8 Hours
Grill: Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill
Pellets: Pecan

Ingredients: Chuck Roast
1 Large Chuck Roast



                We like a nice Bark/Crust made with our coffee rub

Ingredients: Coffee Rub
1 cup dry roasted coffee, medium grind
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup coarse ground garlic
2 Tbsp. Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt
3 Tbsp. coarse ground black pepper
3 Tbsp. dry crushed garlic
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
2 Tbsp. Chipotle Chili Powder
2 Tbsp. Cumin
2 cups brewed coffee, sweetened with ¾ cup brown sugar to inject into the meat

Directions: Rub
Mix all the ingredients in a container, cover and shake to blend.

Directions: Roast
Inject all the sweetened coffee that the roast will hold. Then, pour rub onto the meat and work into the meat with your fingers. When you have a nice rub on it put it back into the fridge to let everything get happy.

Put a heavy coat of your rub onto the meat, you want to form a crust.
About an hour before cooking, pull it out and let meat come up to room temperature. (It will cook more evenly.)


               In the Smoke on the Royall 3000 wood pellet grill/smoker

Cooking Directions: Royall Wood Pellet Grill
Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, turn it on. After about five minutes you can shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up.

Place the roast directly onto the grill and just let it hang out in the smoke and get happy for 1 hour. Then, place it in a foil pan with a few cups of leftover coffee. We added garlic and sweet onions to the pan, also. Then, continue to smoke it for 5 hours or so until you have an internal temperature of 160.

Now, turn the heat up to “medium/300” and cover the pan tightly with foil. In an hour check your temperature, you want 205 here. It is ready, pull and let it rest for about 10 minutes. Now, you can either slice it or string it. We did both. Ken wanted to string it to mix with barbecue sauce for BBQ sandwiches and plain for burgers and burritos.


                          Place it in a pan with some coffee

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need follow closely like when you are making bread but, most you can do anything you can dream. Our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also, you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees, anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.



                           Coffee Crusted Chuck Roast

Preparing Charcoal Smoker
Get the smoker ready, you will want your temperature of around 180-225 degrees. Remember, you are going low and slow here. This will take all day (4-6 hours); make sure you have plenty of cold beer.

Cooking In the Oven:
We have been getting requests for recipe conversions for the oven. I tell folks all the time that cooking on a Royall wood pellet grill is just as easy as cooking in your oven. Just about anyone can do it and do it well. Think about it. You set your control knob to the temp you want, put your meat in and leave it for a set time.

It is the same thing, time and temp. is what it is all about. The Royall is just like your oven except it uses wood pellets and has wheels.

If you want to smoke in your oven they sell oven smokers for that. I, myself, would not spend the money on one of those when you can make your own out of foil.
Foil smoke packets. (Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.) Just set it in the oven. You might want to make sure you turn on your vent fan or your house will fill up with smoke. You will give your alarms a good work out.


                              Coffee Crusted Chuck Roast

About our Recipes
We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Royall Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker, Traeger, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles will fit pellet heads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists.

Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.
The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can even do some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.
Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone.

Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste.
Take it and run with it….
Live your Passion,
Ken & Patti

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