Just curious to what the major differences are? The Yoder has a fan so it's got a positive pressure from the blowers. I consider it a wood burning convection oven. I've never used a hydrator & I'm just curious if I can achieve the same or close result with my jerky in the Yoder vs a hydrator? I set mine @ 150 and it runs just a bit higher than that. Last batch I ran for 4 hours and could have possibly gone a bit longer. The jerky is good at 4 hours so I'm just thinking I can dry it out a little more with a bit longer in the cooker?