Masterbuilt® Gravity Series® 1050 Digital Charcoal Grill and Smoker with Digital Control, App Connectivity and 1,050 Cooking Square Inches in Black, Model MB20041220

Delivery/unboxing: the package weight is about 190lbs. Be ready for that. I moved the box into my garage, where I opened and started moving the individual pieces to where I'd be building. This keeps all those tiny pieces of Styrofoam out of your life.Construction: they only provide a little wrench to use for tightening the swivel wheels. You'll need a Phillips head screwdriver, a 19mm wrench or ratchet with socket, and a pair of channel locks. It took me 3 hours, by myself, including the unboxing time to assemble. You'll assemble it upside down, so if you're not comfortable flipping the thing over by yourself, a second person will come in handy. There are a few screws that took some extra love and attention, but the build is mostly pretty easy.Function: ran it through the pre-seasoning burns and they went great. Grill gets up to 400 degrees in just a couple of minutes (literally) and the app is great for monitoring temp. Definitely different from charcoal grills and pellet smokers, so be sure to watch some instructional videos for startup and cooking.Verdict: I imagine you'll have less issues with this than pellet grills/smokers that seemingly everyone has gone to. There is no auger, which seems to be the most common fail point. There's a temp control and a variable speed fan. The rest of it is just hardware that can rust or wear down like anything. Love it so far and cant wait to do some cooking on this thing.

In my opinion this is one awesome grill. The ability to dial in your temperature is the key. I know that if the tech breaks the grill is out of order, but so far (Approx. 1 mth) everything is great. I have done chicken, ribs, steaks, butts and veggies and it does low and slow to hot and fast. The advantage of using your own charcoal, lump wood and chips is also key.I will say it is a bit of a tough build. There a lot of parts and the instructions do not have any words. (Saves money on printing for different languages I would suspect) took me several hours and a couple of head scratches to complete.Capacity of this grill is pretty good a had two butts on the top rack, ribs and chicken on the bottom. It was full but cooked everything. The internal grill temp stays within 1 to 2 degrees when set. The value for the money on this 'controlled temperature' grill is great when compared to pellet grills.Would highly recommend this grill at this point in its use. It is my best grill to date.

Last edit / comment on this purchase. If required we will review on the replacement unit. As mentioned below the smoker failed. Would not power on. Masterbuilt stopped responding for help on facebook. I called Amazon who provided a replacement unit. WE APPRECIATE THE HELP & SUPPORT FROM AMAZON. Hoping that the second unit is better. If the second unit fails we will return not replace.==================0 I put this at the top (this is new vs original review) since it is the most important comment. I have used the smoke two times. Three times counting today. one brisket, 2 pork shoulders, 2 racks of ribs. All in prep for friends coming over to celebrate July 4th and it stopped working. NO POWER.1 Time to put together is at least 3.5 hours. Mine was longer. Lots of parts and it will be a pain to put it together. You could hire someone but if you want it done right better to do it yourself. If I were to rate this from 1-10 it would be a 2, maybe a 3, They can / should make this easier2 Instruction manual is ok. Part of the reason it takes so long to put together is the amount of time you will spend trying to figure out how to do the next step. Using that 1-10 scale this is a 5, maybe a 6.3 Delivery from amazon was flawless. From the moment it was ordered to the delivery in our garage they were outstanding. I do know others did not have this experience. Seeing the comments on support from others this might be something that you want to buy from a good store to get around the manufactures support issues. A perfect score 10 out of 104 Nothing bent, nothing broken, no damage. Everything inside the box was perfect. Another 10 out of 10 and one of the two perfect score Masterbuilt gets.5 Wireless app is no better and no worse than other wireless apps. Don't buy it for the app. On the other hand do not avoid it because of the app. 5 out of 106 Price. This is expensive. Hoping it was worth the cost. Still early. No score7 Temperature control. Still early but the temperature control is outstanding. This could be why you buy this grill. Lots of warnings about fan failures. If the fan fails this turns into a big pile of trash. Still from our perspective 10 out of 108 We were warned about the smoke during burn in but this was not an issue for us. No score9 The glue they use for the advertisement posters is a big problem. I like the fact they try to protect the grill, this makes a lot of sense. But removing the paper and glue pulls the paint off the grill. You read it right removing the paper will remove the paint from the grill. Support don’t want to address the problem but I’ve seen this type of thing before (I'm old). It showed signs of rust when the paint got pulled off. This might not be a problem now but it will be a problem in the future. Right now it should be their problem and they should send a replacement part. In a couple of years when I am sure I will be calling for help it will be my problem. Makes me think we will have other quality issues 0 out of 109A (Addition since the original review. They did provide a new lid vs me sending it back. An agreeable solution to a problem that should not happen.10 Quality Other people’s reviews mentioned high heat melting the switches. We will heed the warning and never use this for high heat cooking. We have a gas grill (Kitchen Aid) for high heat. Still this is disappointing. Wondering if this will be a problem for us? No score for now.11 Support. Reading the reviews and our experience so far tells us support is going to be a problem. It is all web based. Very disappointing. Given the cost they should provide outstanding support. Support in the past from other manufactures with less expensive smokers (green Keg) has been nothing less than outstanding. Kitchen Aid on the other hand has support issues too. It is still early and I reserve the right to review and edit this review over time but right now it’s a 2 disappointing 2 out of 10. If I had seen the comments on bad support earlier it is unlikely we would have made this purchase. Support, especially on expensive products like this is a reason to purchase / not purchase.11A (an addition since the original review) no phone support. On a day like today, a major event for my family, for it to fail with no phone support is unacceptable. Do I try to return it? If I had purchased from a big box retailer the answer is yes. Not sure how this will work but might be where it all ends. This is sad.