Masterbuilt MB20041020 Gravity Series 560 Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker

The best thing about the 560 that it runs on charcoal and not on pallets that are not always availableGot myself some great mods for the fire box and the vent at the back and it works like a charmIts pricey but well worth it for me

First. So far I love this smoker. The build quality isn't top tier but it's still great for this price. The temp control is great. The hype of reaching 225 in 7 minutes is sort of b.s. Yeah it can but only if coals are prelit before you turn it on. But that's no big deal to me. Right now I'm just doing my preseason but I will update as I cook

This awesome bit of kit not only lit within seconds, but hit its target temperature of around 200C in 15-20 minutes and I was ready to cook. First up was a whole leg of lamb that had had been turned into kebabs on skewers, along with a heap of roasted veg in a tray - meat was perfectly cooked after about 15 minutes, and whilst I gave the veg 30 mins, putting in the lamb halfway through, it wasn't quite ready (my fault - only had one tray to hand and I overloaded it). It was so east to use and control, and putting it out was just a case of turning off the fan and putting in two blanking plates; it stayed warm in the coals tower for a while, but the main oven cooled down pretty quickly. I have only tried traditional BBQ so far and haven't yet smoked anything, but that'll happen in a couple of weeks. The only drawback with this was that some of the instructions weren't completely clear, particularly around attaching the ash bucket container and the manifold, but other than that it was pretty straightforward to build.

Product arrived heavily damaged.return policy made it impossible to return. I will never buy a product like this again.

I was really looking forward to this. I spent a couple of hours building it immediately after it arrived. Then I plugged it in and no power! Nothing. I spent a other few hours going over the instructions, checking forums online and emailing the manufacturer. What I found was this1) you can't call the manufacturer and they aim to reply to emails in 5-7 days2) looking on forums, people have to sometimes wait months for replacement parts under warranty.Which Is some of the worst customer service I've come across.Further more amazon collected it over a week ago, bit say they still haven't received it.I don't know what I was thinking buying anything over £100 from amazon to be honest. But so far I've spent £700 to just have weeks of hassle. I'd stay away from this smoker or atleast research bbq forums. Also avoid buying costly items from amazon.

This must be one of my favorite purchases, if you are serious about proper American style BBQ then this is a must.It took me about 1 hour to build it by myself and was straight forward.The gravity charcoal feeder is great, you can go a good 8 hours with this easily and it’s easy to top up if you need. I did a 12hour low and slow BBQ brisket, pork butt and loads of other stuff.The blue tooth app is great for monitoring the meat probes and the internal temperature, the BBQ can be set to your desired temperature so you can set and forget. The system uses Deg F as default, but it is easy to switch between Deg C and Deg F. this is really good as like I said if you are into low and slow American smoking BBQ then you will probably have most recipes using Deg F anyway.