- May 31, 2015
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So I went to check out a lightly used Yoder Kingman my friend bought last week on a online classified. He was going to be cooking for his family reunion last night. It is custom mounted on a competition style chassis. It wasn't a bad price @ 3,500 which is what he was looking at budget wise. He showed me that the former owner paid 5,700 just over a year ago. Really nice quality though....BUT....I noticed he was burning a ton of wood.....almost triple what one of my 16 inch does.3 logs in a 2 hour time period as a matter of fact. That is a consistent 240 degrees. He bought it to use a few times a year for family get-together's. The thing was filled with racks of ribs lay flat both on the top rack and the bottom. Now this got me thinking. I have two 16 inch units that go 16x30 each. Naturally I put the two together giving me a surface of 32x60 in my head what does fit more racks on the main rack than my buddies. However if he loads his top racks, he beats me. But if I were to add a top rack in each smoker, I have a direct match on the amount of ribs they can hold by my measuring. And both combined only use 2 logs every two hours(half log each every hour). I am still on the fence on a top rack though. I am not sure I will ever use them. I know 2 guys with Yoder models that have racks and they said they rarely use them.