Gravity Series 1050 Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker
Charcoal that holds temperature like a gas line.
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Load the hopper, set the number, walk away. The gravity-fed charcoal system pulls fuel down as the fire burns, and a fan-driven digital controller keeps the pit steady instead of drifting the way open charcoal pits do. That means you can hold a low smoke through a long brisket cook or crank it up for a hard sear without babysitting vents or shoveling coals. Built for the middle of service, not the backyard weekend, this rig is meant to run for hours unattended so you can work the rest of the line. It smokes, it grills, it holds, one unit doing what used to take two setups and constant attention.
overnight and all-day cooks on real charcoal without babysitting a fire — a gravity-fed hopper plus a fan and controller hold a set temperature the way a pellet grill does, but burning lump or briquettes rather than pellets
What it saves you: either a pellet grill (unattended, but pellet smoke) or a stick burner (real fire, but someone tends it every 45 minutes) — this is the reason people own both
What you give up: it is an electric appliance around a charcoal fire: no power, no cook, and the fan, controller and gaskets are wear parts on a cooker that lives outdoors — a kettle has nothing to fail
I run the 600 wood-only rather than the charcoal-plus-wood Masterbuilt advertises. The hopper feeds splits fine and you get real smoke instead of charcoal with a wood accent, which is the whole reason to own a gravity feed over a pellet grill. Pair it with a Fireboard for probe logging and a conversion kit and it holds a temperature overnight without me getting up to it. The design and the technique are the same across the range — only capacity changes.
Written about the 600- combustion-predictive-thermometer
- conversion kit (third-party, we do not carry one yet)
On a line where the smoker's usually an afterthought, this one earns real estate. It runs long without a cook standing over it, holds through a slow shift, and swings to high heat fast enough to finish a sear for a ticket that just came in. That flexibility means fewer separate machines taking up patio space and less time spent nursing a fire when you have six other things going. It's not a backyard toy pretending to be a kitchen tool, it works like one.
