YODER SMOKERS YS640S PELLET SMOKER WALKAROUND AND REVIEW

hey guys somebody here with just fiddling barbecue today I can't tell you how excited I am to open up what's underneath this cardboard one of the most exciting days that I've experienced so far since creating this channel I can't wait to get into this and I can't wait to share with you guys [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] this is the ys640s from Yoder smokers [Music] hello holy cow [Music] look at that that is beautiful the best part made in the United States of America with the hands of America wow [Music] hey guys somebody here we just pit on barbecue today this is going to be a review a walk through and my initial thoughts on the ys640s competition pellet grill all right guys I could not be more excited to share this uh pellet smoke with you this very well could be the last pellet smoker that you ever have to buy and this is probably in my opinion the most versatile pellet smoker in the world and I'm fixing to show you why I'm fixing to go through all the specs uh go through the build quality go through the versatility and then give you my initial thoughts on the ys640s pellet grill from Yoder smokers um there's so much stuff to cover and I didn't want this to go into like a 30 minute video I hope it don't we'll see how it goes but I made some notes just to keep me on track and just so that I wouldn't forget anything so forgive me if I'm looking at some notes but I thought that that would be a way to keep it as organized as possible there's so much to cover so let's get started first of all let me just talk about the build quality for a minute and just give you some specs on that now the smoker itself is 1070 square inches that's a lot almost 1100 square inches but how do they get ys640 I asked that question myself and the answer is the 640 is the 640 square inches just on the bottom grade itself so if you open up a smoker the ys640 is 640 square inches on the bottom the Ys 480 obviously 480 square inches on the bottom that doesn't take into account the top shelf when you combine both of those on the 640 it's 1070 square inches now with the 1070 square inches you also have 12 inches of Headroom from top to bottom so if you want to cook taller stuff like big hams turkeys um beer can chickens anything like that you've got 12 inches of space to work with from top to bottom the cooking chamber is 1 8 inch thick solid steel you've got gussets on the lids the cooking chamber itself 1 8 inch solid steel and you've also got a 20 pound hopper for your pellets overall length of the pit is 61.3 inches and that does include the side shelf the overall height of the smoker is 55 inches and the overall depth of the smoker 36.1 inches and that does include the front shelf now let's talk about how much it weighs this unit weighs 418 pounds that's 418 pounds of solid steel and let me put that into perspective if you take the new Timberline large the new version Timberline that's the large version and an Ironwood 885 from Traeger and combine those they would still be five pounds short of the 418 pounds of this Grill let that sink in for a minute a Timberline large and an Ironwood 885 combined still weighs less than this one ys640s pellet grill if you combine the cost of both of those grilles it's over five thousand dollars now the competition cart this one came with the military green uh magnetic cover for the cart and I absolutely love it I couldn't have asked for anything better they have different versions of these magnetic covers for the competition carts there's an American flag there's a flame version that goes all the way around and they will also do custom paint jobs for you all you have to do is call them and ask them not a lot of companies are going to do that for you so that's another reason why it's a benefit to go with American made and somebody that's doing customized pits now on the bottom of the cart is eight inch uh flat free casters on one end um this end down here is the swivel it also have locking casters on them as well and then on the bottom on each end there's a tie down so that you can tie it down if you have it in a truck you're transporting it from one place to the other or in my case on the barbecue trailer with the d-rings in the floor that's going to be perfect for mounting this on the back of my barbecue porch trailer and tying them down to those d-rings now let's talk about this controller for a minute now Yoder has a proprietary control board on the inside they have their own algorithm they made their own boards an algorithm so that this thing will be as close to an Offset Smoker as you can get um they don't want anybody else controlling how their pellet smokers react and control temps they wanted to do it themselves they are a Offset Smoker pit manufacturer as well and so this thing I told my brother the other day this thing is a pellet smoker that doesn't know it's a pellet smoker I believe it thinks it's a Offset Smoker that's the way the feel of it is that's the way the look of it is and that's the way it really operates now with that you have the fire board control display and that allows you to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities and connectivity with that when you download the fireboard app you have a lot of different customizations you can customize Cooks you can program Cooks save Cooks there's so many things that you can do with that fireboard app and if you want to know more about that just leave a comment in the comments below and I'll do a video on just the fire board and how you can utilize that you have two meat probe ports right here that can be inserted through the side of your smoker through a little Port right here and it also comes with a rubber grommet so when you're not using it you can seal that back up to prevent water or moisture or anything like that getting in your uh in your pit so now that I've kind of gone over um the kind of what is what it's made out of and that kind of thing I'm just going to randomly go over some more features that I find very useful very thoughtful uh very cool and so we'll talk about those both the handles are stay cool handles access to your fans your auger motor and all that stuff in previous pellet grills that I've had if something went wrong or you had to access that you had to go from underneath but only Yoder smokers you go in from the end which is way more convenient you also have your fuse on the end very easy to get to and so I like that a lot better as well your plug-in if you have the competition cart is right here on the end it's not uh in the hopper box itself it's actually on the car Wired from the hopper box the counterweight I've always wondered if this counterweight was just a gimmick or if it was actually necessary and I have to tell you after putting my hands on it it's absolutely necessary and I would suggest that if you're going to get a ys640 go ahead and get a membership to the gym as well because you're going to need it if you get uh the ys640 and some accessories nothing on this thing is light everything is heavy duty everything is built to last stainless steel shelves I love the shelves and one of the things that I thought was odd at first until I started thinking about it was the front shelf I thought at the beginning that it was going to be a little bit low but then I noticed where the handle is and I know on my other pellet grills in the past that have had front shelves that when you put a tray of food on there for example to load up in the grill you can't put it there because it's going to hit your handle or you can't put the lid back down with a tray of food on it because the handle is going to hit your food so the handle is always too close to the front shelf so after looking at it it totally makes sense now of why the the height of this shelf is where it is at the same time you also have the side shelf stainless steel and stainless steel with your utility hooks so you can hook brushes uh tongs or any other type of accessories that you want to hang on there as well very heavy duty I've got to say um the shelves that are on my previous pellet grills that I have owned were very thin there's been plenty of times where the brackets that hold them up and down have been and I've had to bend them back because they're that thin guys I'm telling you the steel rod that's in these things is unbelievably heavy unbelievably heavy duty and everything fits perfectly into welded slots I have no doubt that I could probably stand on this shelf and it would not budge there's no way that you could do that on one of my previously owned pellet grills the other thing that's on here is the stainless steel uh drip guard this protects the front of your smoker from any kind of Grease drippings that drip down in the front part of your smoker it's got a trough in the bottom to catch it and it's got a drain hole on the other end with the rubber grommet in there so you can just wash it out it drains out the bottom and install it right back so a really cool accessory and something that's going to prevent some corrosion from the front part of your smoker now your Smoke Stack is adjustable with a wing nut you can adjust it forward you can adjust it back this is pretty helpful actually because for example when I was doing the seasoning process and I had the oil sprayed inside it was smoking it was smoking pretty good but that oil that was burning off in there didn't smell very good we were sitting on the back porch and it was blowing toward us so I just angled it towards the back and then it went outside of our porch and over the roof and it didn't affect us anymore I could see how this could be useful also on the back of my barbecue trailer if I needed to do do it this way and it go out the back of my trailer rather than inside the porch when you go to put your uh when you go to put your cover on face this down lock it down then put your cover on by the way the cover is outstanding very well made just like everything else that they have done if you if you're transporting it and you want to take it completely off you can take it completely off there's a tab in there so it won't allow it to go too far into the chamber put it back in there lock it back down and you're ready to roll I could probably go on and on about this thing the hinges absolutely heavy duty hinges for the lid the lid is heavy duty there's gussets um gussets in the lids it's not going anywhere there's no way that you can bend it there's no way that you can damage it um solid as it can be top rack slides out stays in place for you to put meat on I have already done one cook last night just to see how it cooked so it is a one use Grill so far the grill grates on the inside four equal parts which I love because that makes it so much easier to take out so much easier to clean you can put these in your sink you could put these probably in the dishwasher but look again how thick the rods are on the bottom of the grill grates these are heavy duty grill grates foreign that's going to be it as far as I'm going to cover today as far as the features go now we're going to get into the versatility of this smoker and um you're going to see why I believe this is the most versatile pellet smoker on the market all right let's talk about versatility first of all it is a pellet smoker use it just like a traditional pellet smoker um anything on the top rack anything on the bottom rack one difference that separates this from other pellet smokers however is the damper with the handle on the end there's a plate down here and I'll show it to you when I get the internals out of it there's a plate down there and with this handle I can slide it in which moves the damper all the way to the Firebox side and that concentrates the heat on this end or I can slide it all the way out and that damper is now on this end and it's going to create more heat on this end if I slide it about halfway in the middle that's going to equalize the Heat so you can create different zones of heat in this pellet smoker whereas most other pellet smokers it is what it is other than that this is a traditional pellet smoker just like any other one as far as the ability to smoke Meats low and slow um you can do hot and fast as well but when I say hot and fast you can really do hot and fast now when I say hot and fast I mean direct fire grilling direct fire grilling is something that you can't do on other pellet smokers and I'm going to show you how to do that now all right so you guys can see this a little bit better I'm going to tape this top rack out all right and now for direct grilling I'm going to take these two grates out now this diffuser is a two-part diffuser and by two parts I mean you've got the solid one piece and then you've got your second piece that you can take out this is an access panel to the burn pot now this is your actual burn pot and that is your Firebox down there with your ceramic igniter so when I put the burn pot back in foreign that's where your fire your direct fire is going to be right over your grill grates that we're going to install so now with the one piece door out and you have access to your burn pot install your grill grates in there and now this thing will get up to 6 700 degrees easily and you can do a reverse here you can slow smoke a tri-tip for example which is going to be my next video I'm going to reverse here so I'm going to slow smoke it at 225 until it gets about 110. then I'm going to take it off uh take out that one piece access door put in my grill grates and I'm going to crank it up and then we're gonna sear that tri-tip off so this is how you can direct Flame Grill in this pellet grill you're not going to be able to do that on most other pellet grills because number one if you try to and something goes wrong they're going to tell you you voided your warranty and there's nothing that you can do about it number two if you get that high temperatures in most pellet grills the paint's going to Bubble off of them and it's going to be damaged so this is something that you're not going to be able to do on the majority of pellet grills on the market today like I said you're going to need a gym membership this thing is heavy three quarter inch Solid cast griddle you've got the ridged side on one side with the Yoder smoker name and then the other side is smooth okay if you want to griddle you can do that as well this fence the ys640 and they also make one that fits the ys-480 and it slides right in place just where your grill grates work foreign so it is made to fit right in there where your grill grates fit so one half of your pellet smoker is a griddle at that point you could slow smoke on it on this side for a while crank up the heat and then do your grilling part if you want to griddle uh burgers for example on the ridge side that's going to keep the grease away from your meat degree the grease is going to stay down here while your meat is raised but let's say you want to do a breakfast you want to do bacon you want to do eggs and that kind of thing well then you can take it up flip it over and now you've got a flat griddle that you can griddle all kind of stuff anything that you want to pancakes eggs uh bacon anything like that another way to use this ys640s pellet grill now one of the things with pellet smokes that's almost impossible to do is cook at extremely high temperatures and cook Say a pizza get a Wood-Fired flavor Pizza in like three or four minutes that's really impossible to do on pellet smokers but not on this Yoder this thing is amazing it blows me away and that is the new uh Yoder Wood-Fired oven it's absolutely unbelievable and I'm going to show you how to put this thing in here and um tell you all about it and show you exactly what you can do with it now the first thing you can do is take out this heat diffuser so we're going to take it out and that gives me a chance to talk about it for a minute guys I'm telling you I've had 15 different pellet grills and every single one of these uh grease trays is what they call them is absolutely flimsy as they can be this thing is absolutely solid steel it'll be here long after I'm gone I'm telling you uh solid steel heavy as can be you can see the reinforcements and obviously it has already been seasoned and now that I've got that out I can show you the damper system in here all right so this is the damper it slides on that Rod over there and so when I slide it all the way in it's going to go all the way to the Firebox side we're going to slide all the way out it's going to go all the way to the right hand side or you can put it in the middle so you get more even cooking for this purpose that we're fixing to do with the uh wood fired oven it really doesn't matter where you put it but we can put it all the way to the end over here on this side okay all right so this is the bottom of the Wood-Fired oven and you're going to slide it over that tab on the left hand side so it can't go anywhere and this slot is right over your burn pit that's where the fire is going to come up and you're going to see when we put the lid on the way the lid is shaped that that flame is going to go up and over the top of whatever you have in that wood fired oven you can see also these engineered holes are made that way for a reason because more of the heat is coming from the burn pit the burn pot and so the holes are bigger on this side to kind of allow more of an even type heat throughout your wood-fired pizza oven so now let's get the top onto the oven plate now there are tabs on both sides one in the front one in the back on each side that correspond with slots in the plate make sure those tabs go inside those slots and it locks itself in place then you have your pizza stone this is a proprietary pizza stone by Yoder it's three quarters of an inch thick and it is made in the United States and you are ready to go to cook anything that you want to whatever your heart desires that you want to cook in a wood-fired pizza oven you can do in there this thing the pizza stone part gets up to 700 degrees internally and the top can get up to almost 900 Degrees you can use this top to heat sauces anything else that you want it's almost like a a stove top really on the top and then you can cook your Wood-Fired dishes or Pizza in here I think the first video that I'm going to do utilizing this wood fire pizza oven is going to be a stromboli that I did a video on years ago and we're going to revisit that because this thing's going to make it twice as good man this thing is wearing me out now last but not least versatility again if you still need more space on the ys640 if you've got a lot of stuff to put on your smoker and the height is not an issue they have a solution for that as well and it's a three-tier rack system now this is your three-tier rack system solid stainless steel slides right into the existing smoker just like that now you've got 1125 extra square inches of cooking space not counting the bottom 640 square inches all of these slide out just like an oven they have hinges on them on the back so they're not going to fall off when you pull them out [Music] slide them back in slide this one out as well if you need something a little bit higher you can take one out if you want to and you can still utilize the bottom rack so you could do corn on the cob on the top you can slide this one in [Music] do a couple of casseroles or something in some cast iron skillets you can do jalapeno poppers on this rack you could do some bread on the bottom you could load this thing up this would be perfect for making beef jerky any kind of jerky this would be awesome for that so this is absolutely amazing and again very well built just like everything else that I have seen from Yoder so far all right guys so in a nutshell that is it for the ys640s competition pellet smoker now let me give you my final thoughts the biggest thing for me is It's Made in the USA Yoder Kansas that is big for me um as you guys know from the other video I did about why I walked away from the other China made products this is exactly what I was looking for and even this has exceeded my expectations Way Beyond what I thought it was going to be I'm absolutely blown away and this is the example of American-made quality by American-made hands American Craftsmen taking pride in what they do there is a huge difference in quality and I mean night and day they take great pride in being Americans they take great pride in their products and it shows and that's something to be proud of for me because I get to represent them on my channel and get to share their products with you build quality obviously is absolutely impeccable the field test I've got to tell you I've still got uh two of another brand uh pellet smoker I've still got two traegers in the backyard and last night I mean we were cooking on this thing and I went over and lifted the lid on the other one and honestly about through that lid through the top of the back porch roof because the weight difference is it's not even close it's not I mean not even close foreign to describe the difference until you actually put your hands on it I knew it was going to be different I didn't know how different it was going to be until I put my hands on it and then I was really blown away so it's hard to describe the difference in quality the difference in the build material between this and the other China made products there's just no comparison the other benefit of the ys640 and the Yoder smokers is the accessories the amount of accessories that are available for these products and they continue to evolve they continue to try to build more things that fit these smokers uh so that you can be more successful in your backyard or in your competitions and that's what I love about the company as well that's really about it guys um there's probably a lot more that I could talk about I'm sure I've left out something but I tried to give you just an overall view of the dimensions uh the build quality the versatility of the smoker all the accessories that you can get for the smoker um and now just a few minutes I'm gonna do my first film cook which is going to be a reverse seared tri-tip so we're going to utilize the pellet smoker version low and slow 225 until it gets to be about 110 degrees and then we're gonna cook over a direct flame and sear It Off so it should be good so there you have it if you like what you see give me a thumbs up I would love to have you as a subscriber to the channel so hit that subscribe button hit the bell for notifications share this video leave a comment in the comment section let me know what you think stay tuned for the next video which is going to be the reverse seared tri-tip until next time we'll be peddling

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Length: 29min 1sec (1741 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 11 2023