Masterbuilt 20077515 Front Controller Electric Smoker with Window and RF Controller, 30-Inch

I received my smoker 2 weeks ago. My husband and I live in a loft in the downtown "Strip District" of Pittsburgh, PA. We have a 10 X 26 foot terrace. This smoker complements our Weber Summit grill. Party's On! One of the cooking grate supports (attached to the wall of smoker and holds the water pan and racks) was broken off at the bottom which holds the water bowl. I emailed Masterbuilt and registered my unit online over the weekend and called them Monday. You MUST call customer service with your model & serial number for service. They shipped the part right out. I got a response to my email several days later telling me to call them. The part arrived in 4 days. My remote control gives me meat probe temp, "set time", blinks between "set temp" and actual temp unlike some of the reviews I've read, my remote gives me all the info that's on the machine. I must have a new model. It's great. Smoking meat has a learning curve! The first thing I smoked was a a chicken. I brined it overnight, rubbed it the next day and smoked it. The rub recipe I used was a little too harsh/ spicy for my taste. I'm thinking chicken, fish need a lighter touch. The smoker is easy to use and worked well. Slight adjustments of the vent easily regulate the smoker temperature. Adding wood chips (apple with a little hickory) is a breeze, just be careful, cause the loader tray gets very hot, the handle stays cool however. The next day I smoked a 7.5 lbs pork butt. This was a 3 day proposition. Again, I brined the butt overnight, rubbed and refridgerated the butt for another day, up at 4am, remove butt from fridge, soak the wood chips, smoker on, took 25-30 minutes to get smoker up to 225, load chips, load meat, insert thermometer *( the thermometer fits very tightly in it's holder. I suggest you remove it and place it lightly on the holder for easier insertion before you plug in the smoker ie. while it's cool to touch.) I learned this the hard way with the chicken. I couldn't get the darn thing out of it's holder, and now it's a hot thermometer and smoker , a messy chicken in the way, well you get the picture. Iwas surprised at how cool the outside/ top of the smoker stays. It also holds quite a bit of food. Unless your feeding hundreds this 30 inch model should be fine. Back to the butt, low and slow 225 adding chips approx every hour for first 5 hours, and again for the last 2 hours I when added some sweet italian sausage links. 11 hours total to an internal temp of 190. YOU CAN OVER SMOKE. So at the 4 hour mark, I opened the door to peek and noticed a nice crust/Mr. Brown starting to form, I left it in another hour, hour 5 ,it looked like all the youtube videos and pictures of a perfect smoked butt, nice and crusty all over. I quickly removed the butt, placing the thermometer probe lightly on its holder (of course), and wrapped the butt in heavy duty aluminum foil, returned the meat to the smoker inserted the probe, which I checked against my instant read thermometer, it was true, and let cook 6 more hours. As I said, I rubbed some sweet italian sausage links with olive oil and set that rack under the butt for the last 2 hours. I let the butt rest 30 minutes, covered in foil, before I pulled it. Wow, I was sooo excited to have pulled this off for my 12 memorial day guests. They were impressed with how delicious the pork and sausage was! I'm a pretty good home cook so I enjoy the process. It takes thought and preperation. So, what are you waiting for? Get your smoke on!!

Have had this smoker for about six weeks now and love it. The built-in thermometer and wireless remote make this smoker a breeze to use and the only reason I have to even go outside is to refill the wood chips in the smoker box, made even easier by the refill tube on the side of the unit. Temperature remains pretty constant and thermometer works great. Compared internal temp using professions themrometer and the temp only varied by a couple degrees at the most and for the most part was right on the mark. Have smoked two shoulders, veggies and whole chickens and all have come out perfect and delicious using a variety of wood chips. Cleanup is a breeze with this unit and I recommend wiping with wet cloth once it cools down and clean off grills after each use. Only have a few complaints about unit. 1: Wireless remote led display is odd and you have to hold at a sharp angle to see information on display. Could have used better quality led. Also, temp control on smoker does not update on my remote. Have to set temp and time off remote for remote to read and update info properly it seems. May just be problem on my unit but not a big deal as it is easy to use remote for everything. 2: Window on smoker really is somewhat useless. Clouds up after first use and is hard to keep clean. You will pretty much open up door when you want to check food anyway, and the design of unit keeps that need to a minimum. 3) The cover (purchased seperately) is not heavy duty and water will soak through it if you leave it outside when it rains. I simply sewed a water-proof piece of fabric on the inside top of the cover to keep water from leaking onto the control unit. I also added a velcro strap on the outside of the cover to keep heavy winds from blowing it off. Highly recommend this smoker to anyone who doesn't wish to fiddle with temp problems that can be inherent with standard small charcoal and wood smokers. Revised: 4/13/2013 Have been using this smoker now for about 2 years and want to note a few things. Still works great with no problems with the smoker unit itself. However, the IR remote stopped working over the past few months. Replaced batteries and it appears to be a problem with the screen not displaying. I can turn on/off the unit with the remote but it won't let me adjust temp or use other remote features or display anything. Going to call the company and hopefully get a new one because it is wonderful when smoking in the winter and you don't have to go out to check the temp or time. The window on this unit I found to be rather pointless. You have to wipe it off after every use to actually continue to use it and honestly it's hard to tell anything looking thorugh it anyway. The light is also rather useless as you have to also keep the lamp cover clean after every use or it quickly dims to the point of being useless. I rarely find the need to open the door during smoking, except to sop or coat meat, and the temps go back up quick on an electric smoker. Other than that, I love this smoker! Has worked flawlessly and I get beautiful smoked meat every time. The only thing an electric smoker doesn't really allow, is that you dont get the beautiful smoke rings that a coal or wood smoker will give because of the chemical process that occurs only when smoking with wood and coal. Food tastes just as good though!

Great smoker! Super easy to setup and beautiful flavor right from the first smoke. I recommend buying the rain cover at the same time if you're putting this outside in an uncovered spot. I wasn't sure if it came with one so it spent a night in the rain, but no big deal. Sharp looking unit, good instructions, delicious smoked meat!

Delivered fast. Assembly instructions very good, clear to understand. Assembly straight forward only needing a screwdriver and can be done by most people. Powered up smoker. All controls work perfectly. The remote however would not link to the controller until I read instructions further and saw my mistake. Works perfectly and can interface with controller from anywhere in my home! Must say off the top that the size of this smoker caught me off guard! I would have been fine with a 30 inch but I really wanted the 1200 watt element for those cooler days and wanted something I could smoke a full turkey in. Oh yeah, it'll do a turkey! Lots of room! First order of business, preseason the smoker. Ambient temperature was only 7C but I was amazed that after a cold start the smoker was well over 200C in 10 minutes! Timer and heat set point right on the money. Jumped in with both feet and smoked a 12 Lb. turkey first thing. Used a maple smoke and some herbs with garlic cloves and onion in the cavity. Just some salt and pepper on outside. Was easily able to adjust cooking temperature and using the cold smoker attachment I had a good 3 hour smoke to the meat. Just barely had the top vent open to keep turkey moist. Produced an incredible smoked turkey better than the butcher used to do. Very, very moist, a bit too much so. Perfect smoke flavour and not too strong. Looked incredible! UPDATE: May 22, 2016 Have done cheese (cold smoked), nuts, brisket, pork chops and another turkey. Everything came out wonderful. Learning every time it is used! Love it!! Trying different wood chips, spices, temperatures and herbs. Thanks to another reviewer for suggesting using foil to cut down on clean-up! Awesome!

Awesome smoker, easy to use, I would get another thermometer though. May want to get a welders blanket to keep the heat in in cold temperatures

I previously had a propane smoker of similar shape and size. This thing beats it hands down. It is so low maintenance during use I have sometimes forgot I had it going. The big differences are it uses far less wood chips than the propane one, it is cool to the touch on all exterior surfaces, drip tray is less messy, and its pretty much "set it and forget it". Before, with my old smoker I would have to constantly monitor the gas as wind, air temp and the wood itself would drastically change the internal cooking temperature. I love this thing. I cant imagine a better and easier to use smoker. The results are amazing and perfect every time. Edit: 3 yrs in and it works awesome. cleaning is a pain but I use it once a week to smoke pork. heavy use will gum this thing up quick so maintain regular cleaning to avoid harsh taste.

The only good thing I can say about this order is the time it took to arrive to me from the US! ETA was May 7th. It arrived on April 24th. I was so excited to replace my Bradley Smoker with this one. HOWEVER, my first disappointment after opening the box was to discover that it had a US 3-pin plug. THIS should have been a clue to me. I contacted Amazon they assured me that buying a (travel) adapter would solve this problem. So, I did so from their site. I assembled it and went to pre-season the smoker as suggested in the instruction manual. I plugged the appliance in and it beeped twice and THAT WAS IT!!! It did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE!!! It wouldn't even power on!! I called the manufacturer in the US and was on hold for 30 minutes before I hung up! I contacted Amazon and was told the only thing for me to do now was to return it to their facilities in the US!! And, while I was promised I would be reimbursed for the cost, it was more than £150 to ship the thing. And, while packing away the smoker I read the back panel.. It clearly says 120v!! A Google search says: "If you have a single voltage device that accepts only 120V, then it will not operate in the UK without a converter or transformer." Pity is... I have one!! (After cooling myself down I contacted Amazon again regarding this issue. And, they will ensure this doesn't happen to any other UK customer.). As for the unit itself, I really like the build quality. If the manufacturer says that it will work with a transformer, then I may purchase another one and come back and edit this review.