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Gravity Series 600 Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker
Charcoal you don't have to babysit all day.
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This is a charcoal rig with a brain. The gravity-fed hopper feeds lump or briquettes down into the firebox as the digital controller calls for heat, so you’re not standing there working vents at 2am on a brisket. Same unit swings from a low, steady smoke to a hard sear hot enough for a ribeye, without swapping equipment or rebuilding a fire. You still get real combustion and real smoke flavor, just without the constant tending charcoal usually demands. For a kitchen or a backyard setup running long cooks alongside quick ones, that’s one machine covering two jobs. Less fire-minding, more time actually cooking.
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charcoal and wood smoke held at a set temperature for hours without tending — a gravity hopper feeds fuel by weight and a fan holds the number, so an overnight brisket or a long pork shoulder runs unattended instead of being fed a split every forty minutes
What it saves you: babysitting an offset: the vent-and-split routine that makes low-and-slow a day spent at the smoker rather than a day the smoker is working for you
What you give up: it is a fan-forced box, so it cannot idle as low as an offset for cold smoking, the hopper needs a real charcoal not briquette dust, and the electronics are the part that fails first — a power cut mid-cook is a problem an offset never has
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 more fine-tuned results and capabilities such as unattended smoke temperature adjustments for long cooks — lower temp smoke on the front end, higher temp to get close to target, and drop down for extended hold and finish of render. The design and the technique are the same across the range — only capacity changes.
- combustion-predictive-thermometer
- conversion kit (third-party, we do not carry one yet)
On a line or in a backyard doing volume, the thing that kills charcoal cooking is attention. You can't run a shift and also nurse a fire. This setup automates the part that used to require a body standing next to it, which means it earns a spot as the one piece of equipment that can do an overnight pork shoulder and then sear off orders a few hours later without a second setup or a second fuel source.