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1. #SMOKER AUTOMATIC FEEDER SKIN#
2. #SMOKER AUTOMATIC FEEDER FULL#
3. #SMOKER AUTOMATIC FEEDER SOFTWARE#
4. #SMOKER AUTOMATIC FEEDER SERIES#

This grill doesn't make sense for everyone.

#SMOKER AUTOMATIC FEEDER SERIES#

Almost everything I cooked in the Gravity Series 560 came out tasting fabulously good. The 560 also conveniently controls its own pit temperature like a pellet grill, yet burns regular lump or briquette charcoal. It grills with high heat, smokes low and slow, and everything in between. I truly enjoyed my experience with the $500 Masterbuilt Gravity Series 560. There are worse sins in barbecuing, certainly, but if you're an active griller especially, you're going to want to make sure you have more charcoal on hand than you normally might. The same task on the Gravity Series consumed about three quarters of an 8 pound bag, or about 112 briquettes.

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That's approximately 80 briquettes, or a full chimney starter's worth, to cook baby back ribs for between 5 and 6 hours. While the formulation of briquettes has changed over the years, one charcoal snake typically lasts me 7 to 8 hours. The Gravity Series was also less efficient than my trusty Weber kettle.

Other electric grills such as Traeger pellet smokers are effectively sealed and insulated from the elements. For an ordinary grill I wouldn't mind, but for a smoker that often needs to complete long cooks spanning several hours, it's an issue. Essentially you can't run it in the rain. The biggest one is that it's not weather resistant. I do have a few problems though with the 560.

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Its skin was crisp while its flesh was juicy, with a pleasing smoke flavor. After 1 hour and 19 minutes, I was treated to one fantastic bird. I threw a chunk of pecan smoke wood into the grill's ash tray, too, for extra oomph. I gave it the barbecue treatment, a sweet and smoky rub. Brian Bennett/CNETįinally, I roasted a spatchcocked chicken at 350 degrees. Roasted barbecue chicken on the Masterbuilt Gravity Series 560. Providing I had a proper ignition, the Masterbuilt 560 quickly ramped its internal heat levels to where I wanted them. Next I punched in my target grill temperature, and it's off to the races. Sensors on the lid and hopper doors tell the fan to spin up when everything is closed. Then I buttoned up the hopper, removed two vent intake slides, and turned the grill on. With the hopper full (12 pounds of briquettes), a fire starter ignited a sufficient amount of coals in about 5 minutes. The grill's charcoal hopper serves as its own chimney starter. These extra steps aren't necessary with the 560. It's effective, but also takes some time to get it going. This calls for stacking briquettes in systematic layers in a semicircle around the kettle's inner edge. When I'm planning to cook low and slow for barbecue, I employ the snake method. When I fire up my old-school Weber kettle, I usually light the charcoal in a chimney starter and let them burn for 15 minutes before I put them in the Weber. My experience cooking with the Gravity Series 560 was a pleasant one. Instead, an electric fan and vent channel heat and smoke from lit charcoal inside the hopper into the cooking cavity. It doesn't cook food in the same chamber as burning charcoal. The Gravity Series 560 doesn't operate like a traditional charcoal or kamado grill. What's more important here is being able to track the progress and status of your food remotely, which Masterbuilt's app provides. While the app's list of recipes isn't as extensive or as flashy as Traeger's and its many colorful photos, the instructions are easy to follow. It's nice to have since it means less fiddling with grill controls.īy contrast, the Masterbuilt app provides temperature control, meat probe monitoring and a library of text recipes. The Timberline will then run the instructions as an executable program.

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Traeger's software lets you send actual temperature settings and cook times to its grill. This Masterbuilt app isn't as advanced as Traeger's. You can also control it via a mobile app. Like many higher-end grills today, including the Traeger Timberline 850, the Gravity Series 560 connects to Wi-Fi. The Masterbuilt app lets you control the grill, watch meat probe status, and read recipes.