got my reworked yoder back it time to smoke

[Deerspy]

my Yoder Wichita had a warped door got it fixed ready have a summer of smoking fun
bring on the yard bird and butts and ribs

[dsgarner06]

woohoo! Time to party!

[Deerspy]

Yum, yum first chick of summer

[Richtee]

Soo..did Yoder take care of the issue? Mmm yardbird... done hot, Nice!

[Deerspy]

richtee, they fixed the door it fits a lot tighter now and it was sooooo much easy er to control the temp and only used half as much wood as it did last summer on this first cook but I still have some issue with temp difference from end to end not sure how to fix that will probably have to rotate meat every hour or two but it seams that the angle of heat management plate might have some thing to due with it I think if was more parallel it might let heat flow across more even but with it on a angle it is holding the heat to one end just a thought I might have to try to make one that is parallel to experiment with.

[barkonbutts]

Glad to hear Yoder is still backing their products!! some great looking chicken!!

[Ozric]

Here's Wingman's (Rob's) review of the loaded Wichita. You may want to contact him direct with any remaining questions. Hope this helps.

[smc51]

Good looking Meal Deerspy...........Yum

[Deerspy]

well I did a test to see how much the temp difference was from one end to the other for a after reworked door fit I put my temp probes in and they read 77 on end near fire box and 75 on end near stack started fire for rib cook when temp got up to 225 near fire closed er up with slab of spares in the middle between probes after getting temp to hold at 225 to 230 near fire the other end was 200 to 205 near stack ran it for 9 hours the temp very-ed 200 to 260 near fire box seams that was best I could due when it would cool down to 200 i would add two more sticks of hickory (about 2" by 16") and it would go to 260 every time the temp would stay within 25 degree at stack end so maybe I don't need a different heat management plate getting that door fit sure makes a big difference, now if I could just get those ribs up to 190 internal temp!

[Wahoo95]

Don't worry bout cookin ribs to 190deg. You cook them till the meat pulls back off those bone tips about 1/2" and they show some bend when you pick em up

[Bearcarver]

Looks like it "And You" did a real nice job on that Chicken!!!

Bear

[Deerspy]

thanks all
Deerspy