YODER SMOKERS Reviews

Name: YODER SMOKERS
Address: 1816 E. Wasp Rd, hutchinson, Kansas
Rating: 4.22

4.2 Rating 27 Reviews

78 %

of reviewers recommend YODER SMOKERS

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1816 E. Wasp Rd,
hutchinson
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YODER SMOKERS 5 star review on 2nd January 2023

Anonymous

Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“The YS640S is the perfect pellet smoker! Built like an absolute tank. I’ve smoked on everything from stick burners to electric and have to say that the Yoder is the jack of all trades and master of em all. The smoke flavor is always on point. Being able to use it at high heats I now use it as main grill as well as smoker. The S controller is amazing! I am a techie by trade and teaming up with FireBoard pretty much seals the deal. Being able to control the smoker from anywhere in the world is beyond amazing. I seriously can not praise Yoder enough. Great customer service, amazing products and the YS640S is the best overall pellet smoker in the market. Did I mention built like a tank? I had a tree fall on my house basically crashing through my kitchen roof and believe it or not the whole tree was resting on my Yoder and didn’t even make a dent. The house was totaled, the Yoder I still use to this day!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Purchased my 480 pellet grill a little over three years ago. Within the first year I started having problems with paint peeling. It has been non stop ever since trying to touch up. I plans to strip it down in the spring and hopefully put a good primer on it and stop the bleeding. I am very meticulous about my grills and keep them covered year round. The Broilmaster grill I bought 13 years ago looks and wears much better. The expensive Yoder cover I purchased with the smoker wore completely out within first three yeArs. I purchased a $25 cover on Amazon that would fit and is a much better product. Over all. I am not happy with my over priced purchase! The Green Mountain Pellet grill I had for 6 years before I bought my Yoder looks better and has held up better than my Yoder!”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Update- the $129 cover that is designed to custom fit my Yoder smoker has now completely fallen apart. Don’t waste your money on this cover. A $40 large universal cover will do much better and has to last much longer. The longer I have owned my over priced Yoder the more disappointed I am . To bad because I originally thought it was a decent product!”

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Posted 1 year ago

“I may have received a bad unit. But, I have experienced severe drafting issues with my loaded Wichita purchased (6/2022). I have over 10 years experience with fire management and have never had the issues the Wichita has presented. Such as, tons of Smoke back flowing out of fire box, once the door is closed on fire box, the fire goes out shortly after, even if the damper is fully open. I have placed the coals center, back left and back right of fire box. Unit is inefficient, since the firebox door needs to stay wide open. burns thru splits 15-17min on average. Which is a nightmare on long cooks. I purchased a custom yoder smoke stack 2x the size of the original for $300 hoping to improve drafting, which allowed me to close the door a little more and extends split life to about 20min. Yoder claims splits should last 30-45min. Overall, it’s been a very frustrating experience, from yoder forgetting the grill grates to needing to paint my smoke stack because they forgot and I wishing I would have went with my gut and purchased the fat stackz or millscale. The unit is built solid and has quality welds but has to many operational design flaws. They’ve lost any future business of mine. FYI - I communicated my issues 3 weeks prior to this review with no response .”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Will not control temperature close to set point. Temperature span runs 20-30 degrees below and then rises to 20-30 degrees above set point. It never settles in and holds close to set point. Customer service says it is working normal. After complaining they finally sent me a new temperature transducer which did nothing. I am very tired of dealing with customer support that keeps telling me nothing is wrong. They sell a product under false claims of performance, then won't support it when it fails to meet their claims.”

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Posted 6 months ago

“I purchased a Y6640 S about a year ago, from my first cook I have had nothing but problems. After about the 3rd cook I noticed some drops of grease on the bottom shelf, I looked at the under-body of the grill and noticed grease buildup from the two bolts nearest the grease bucket. These bolts were installed at the factory NOT when I assembled the grill. I called Yoder customer service and they instructed me to re-caulk the bolts. for the first 4- 5 months I didn't have any other issues, then about month 6 , it would have huge temp swings,35-50f swings that would hold for at ;least 30 minutes before settling down to set temp I again contacted customer service, they assured me this was normal. it also would not go down to 150f even though it clearly states everywhere advertised it would, when i asked customer service i was told the grill would not go down to 150f and to use the top shelf because the lowest the grill would go was 175f. The next issue was the trap door, it warped even though i NEVER ran the grill higher the 400f with it installed. This was replaced without issue until it warped again about a week ago Then the fans, the fans stared going out about a month ago , they made high pitched whining noise. Those were just sent out for me to replace After all of the above , i had enough, I spoke to customer service several times and expressed my frustration and felt I should not be making all these repairs on a grill that wasn't even a year old and OVER $2300 .That went nowhere, I asked that the manager of the plant call me, this if course never happened. After the 3rd or 4th email asking a manager to call me finally I was provided the VP's info, I spoke to Joe the VP, nice enough guy, we went through the issues and he assured me he would make things rite including replacing the grill if needed. Joe and Joey ( customer service manager) went through some of my cooks and picked out the ones that did not have huge swings (even though i sent several with huge swing) and decided the grill was fine and I would just need to keep repairing the grill. Bottom line, i really wanted to buy American made and thought I would in return have something my kids would enjoy after I am gone. especially when your spending this kind of money. Yoder may have had a good product at one time and stood behind there products, those days appear to be gone. I strongly suggest spending your money elsewhere. After these next round of repairs I plan on selling the grill for whatever I can get for it and purchase a Lone Star Grillz”

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Posted 1 year ago

“worst back yard investment I have ever made. didn't work right from day 1. neither the company or the retailer are taking accountability for faulty product. all they offer is to send parts and ask me to try to repair. have spent 6 hours replacing parts and it still doesn't work correctly. they refuse to fix themselves or replace the product. save your money or buy from another manufacturer”

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Posted 2 years ago

YODER SMOKERS is rated 4.2 based on 27 reviews