Hydrator vs my pellet cooker

[texomakid]

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?

 

[Winterrider]

You should be fine if you can keep your temps low like that. If you start creeping up about 180°or above ,then your basically cooking it.

 

[sandyut]

I run my rec tec at 180 for a 2-3 hours then up to 225 to finish the drying as needed. I cut the meat 1/4 thick so it takes about 4 hours total give or take. i think the pellet grill is great for jerky! try discos OFG jerky - its killer. I have also used a wet marinade made from Dales (low sodium). I like the OFG better, wife like Dales better. but im cooking soooo. :)

 

[hogfan78]

I run my rec tec at 180 for a 2-3 hours then up to 225 to finish the drying as needed. I cut the meat 1/4 thick so it takes about 4 hours total give or take. i think the pellet grill is great for jerky! try discos OFG jerky - its killer. I have also used a wet marinade made from Dales (low sodium). I like the OFG better, wife like Dales better. but im cooking soooo. :)

I ran this exact recipe on my Bull this past weekend and it is killer.

 

[sandyut]

nice work! glad you liked it too. Disco get cred for the recipe. the temps and time I came up with on a couple trials.