Hello from NJ
Posted: April 13th, 2015, 8:50 amHey guys,
I just recently picked up a YS640 unit as the second owner. I took it out for a maiden voyage this week with a few T Bones. The direct grill option worked great! Beautiful sear marks and the steaks were damn tasty, even the inlaws agreed! Yesterday, I fired it up again and did some chicken drumsticks and a whole chicken. I think I mad some rookie mistakes since I had some serious temperature sways. When I checked the smoker this morning after some serious reading last night, I realized that the chimey was not flush, it was way too far in. I also made the mistake of having the smoker setup to use H3 not H1 which I think threw off my temps. The whole chicken took too long in my opinion, over 3+ hours. I also made the rookie mistakes of increasing and decreasing the set temps during the cook which probably messed up the controller. I had the drumsticks and the chicken in aluminum cooking pans which wasn't terrible but I feel like cooking directly on the grates would have been better. Definitely learned a lot though. I have been smoking for about 5+ years using a Weber Smokey Mountain unit so this is definitely different from what I'm used to but we'll get there.
I just recently picked up a YS640 unit as the second owner. I took it out for a maiden voyage this week with a few T Bones. The direct grill option worked great! Beautiful sear marks and the steaks were damn tasty, even the inlaws agreed! Yesterday, I fired it up again and did some chicken drumsticks and a whole chicken. I think I mad some rookie mistakes since I had some serious temperature sways. When I checked the smoker this morning after some serious reading last night, I realized that the chimey was not flush, it was way too far in. I also made the mistake of having the smoker setup to use H3 not H1 which I think threw off my temps. The whole chicken took too long in my opinion, over 3+ hours. I also made the rookie mistakes of increasing and decreasing the set temps during the cook which probably messed up the controller. I had the drumsticks and the chicken in aluminum cooking pans which wasn't terrible but I feel like cooking directly on the grates would have been better. Definitely learned a lot though. I have been smoking for about 5+ years using a Weber Smokey Mountain unit so this is definitely different from what I'm used to but we'll get there.