Nice.Sous Vide for 2.5 hours at 132 degrees.
Flamethrower for 30 seconds. IMPRESSIVE!
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Nice.Sous Vide for 2.5 hours at 132 degrees.
Flamethrower for 30 seconds. IMPRESSIVE!
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Get a Yoder pellet and be done with it. The last grill/smoker you’ll ever buy.
Starting next week my company is printing the packing tape they seal their boxes with. As a matter of fact I came back into work tonight to make their printing plates.Get a Yoder pellet and be done with it. The last grill/smoker you’ll ever buy.
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The YS640s Pellet Grill
Starting At$1799.00 + shipping
Yoder Smokers Pellet Grills come standard with the NEW Yoder Smokers ACS Control System with two integrated food probes. New ceramic ignition system and large custom orange casters are new features in the S series of pellet grills. With expansive cooking surfaces-ranging from 800 to 1,070 square inches-combined with nearly twelve inches of headroom, there's plenty of room for anything, including beer can chickens or turkeys.
I had an original Traeger for about 15 years. It was so old it only had a 3 position switch...high, med and smoke. I set it on fire at least 3x by smoking greasy "fatties" on it and then grilling and not cleaning it. That grill never ever let me down. I finally retired it because I was having a hard time with it holding temp. When I bought it they just got the pellet grill patent so they were like the one and only. I had a choice a few months ago when I bought a new one with all the companies making them now but I went back to the Traeger. Honestly, I regret it. I've had a ridiculous time with the new grill holding temp (eventhough it has the digital read out etc) and I've lost fire twice on it now during long smokes. I definitely don't love it as much as my last one and I am still debating contacting Traeger and sharing my experience and hoping maybe they send a tech out to check my grill. Now with that being said, when it is working properly I wouldn't trade it for anything. I smoked some pork steaks and chicken breasts on Saturday that I would've put in a competition. I fill that hopper up and set the temp and spray them every hour and they were to die for. Like someone also said above, I do not think they put a ton of smoke to the meat. Now they do make the high end model that is supposed to have a super smoke feature but I'm not rich enough to own one of those.
It wasn't due to the hopper feed being goofy, my original was way worse then this one so I am a habitual hopper checker. I think it might possibly be because it was windy plus I changed the temp one of the times from the "smoke" option on the dial up to 225. Also, it really seems to struggle ever getting up to the temp it's set for, especially after I've opened the lid and it never ever seems to regain the temp back up to what the dial is set on. I really need to just call and ask some questions. Maybe it's a setting within the presets of the hopper feed speed or maybe a miscalculation of the thermostat.You are losing your fire because of how the auger pulls pellets from the hopper box. For some reason the auger only pulls pellets from the right side of the hopper. This will cause a cavity to form in the box and the temp will drop so the auger spins faster to ramp up the temp. Once that cavity collapses the auger is putting too many pellets in the firebox smoldering it.
On a 14-hour smoke, I will check the hopper box twice. I make sure its filled all the way to the top and more pellets are on the right side of the hopper box. If its colder I might check it 3 or 4 times. I've had my traeger for 4 years now and love it. It out performs my family's and neighbors electric smokes. If I have the money I will get a yoder next time only because of the high heat searing and its built like a tank.
It wasn't due to the hopper feed being goofy, my original was way worse then this one so I am a habitual hopper checker. I think it might possibly be because it was windy plus I changed the temp one of the times from the "smoke" option on the dial up to 225. Also, it really seems to struggle ever getting up to the temp it's set for, especially after I've opened the lid and it never ever seems to regain the temp back up to what the dial is set on. I really need to just call and ask some questions. Maybe it's a setting within the presets of the hopper feed speed or maybe a miscalculation of the thermostat.