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Simply fill with charcoal, light, set the required temperature on the control panel and cook, it's really that easy! The Masterbuilt Gravity Series 560 definitely has the look of a pellet smoker. Brian Bennett/CNET Looks like a smoker Control temperature and cook time with the digital control panel or with smart device control using WIFI or Bluetooth This grill/smoker is aimed at people who want the taste of cooking with charcoal, without any of the hassles.
Start the grill by placing a fire starter at the bottom of the charcoal hopper and lighting it. Brian Bennett/CNET The hopper can hold between 4.5 and 7kg of fuel at any one time, which should be long enough for around 12-15 hours use. For reference, after a seven-hour cook, I still had around half the fuel left in the hopper.
Cleaning the kettle regularly is advisable. The fat that falls to the bottom during a cook cakes up and can cause some situations. You will not notice this during low and slow cooks, but if you grill at higher temperatures, that layer of fat can ignite and cause a pit fire. GravityFed hopper holds 4.5kg. of lumpwood charcoal or 7kg. of briquettes for up to 12-15 hours of use Masterbuilt has blazed a new trail with their Gravity Series 560 Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker. A one-of-a-kind machine, the Gravity Series marries the ease of thermostatic control (as in your home oven or pellet smoker) with the smoky flavor you expect from cooking with charcoal and wood chunks. You can connect this cooker to your smart device via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi for remote monitoring and control, or ignore that technology altogether since it’s not required for operation. We haven’t seen anything quite like the Gravity Series, and we want to love it despite its flaws! The grill did take quite a bit of time to put together at about 2 hours and 20 minutes, but you could probably cut this down if you had help. Precision Control: With advanced temperature management and airflow control, you have the power to achieve precise results every time you fire up the grill.
The Masterbuilt 560 is reasonably economical when you are running low and slow. If you want to cook at higher temperatures, your fuel will go quite fast. That makes sense, of course, because the hopper is a large controlled fire starter. Blue tooth connection of the Masterbuilt smoker The middle level is approximately 12 inches deep, while the top level measures around 8 inches deep. Food Capacity: The only real issue with the app is its hit-and-miss connectivity. It’s fine most of the time, connecting to the BBQ when opening the app, but there have been several occasions where I’ve had to go outside to the BBQ to re-activate its signal, defeating the purpose of the app.Your Masterbuilt is covered by a 2 year manufactures warranty. But buying from ProSmoke means we deal with any issues in partnership with the manufacturer, so you are not on your own, that's why we are the only Platinum dealer in the UK. Here’s where the Gravity Series can really shine. On most charcoal cookers, you control temperature by adding charcoal and by adjusting the airflow with a series of vents. Aftermarket thermostatically-controlled fans can make this process easier, but the Gravity Series simplifies it even more. The built-in fan, thermostatic controller, and gravity-fed charcoal make Gravity Series a plug and play charcoal grill and smoker. Just set your cooking temp and it maintains that temp like an indoor oven–but with a steady supply of charcoal smoke. Thankfully, if the coals don’t take and the cooker fails to rise in temp, it will tell you via a series of beeps and an error message on the display. No such problems with my trusty Fatwood. Flame On! The real star of the show is the gravity-fed hopper attached to the right of the grill. Accessible via a lid, the hopper is where you store all your fuel, be it lump charcoal, briquettes or wood for smoking.
Set the temperature on the digital control panel or your smart device and the DigitalFan™ maintains the desired cooking temperature. What’s interesting though is how Masterbuilt is bringing the ease of use of a pellet grill while utilizing charcoal for fuel instead of wood pellets. With the Gravity Series™ 560 Charcoal Grill, you can smoke, grill, sear, bake, roast and so much more.
The Masterbuilt smoker does not smoke on its own. You can smoke whenever you want and at any temperature by adding smoke wood. For example, a pellet smoker smokes most below 120 degrees (248F) and much less above that. Wood above 120 degrees no longer smoulders but burns and then hardly emits any smoke. In short the ‘Gravity Series’ is charcoal BBQing made simple. It’s as convenient as a gas BBQ, it’s as controllable as a gas BBQ, it’s as efficient as a gas BBQ and it’s as clean as a gas BBQ… but it has all the flavour, fun and personality that only charcoal brings to the outdoor cooking experience.
The whole setup reminds me of an offset smoker, though one assisted by a fanned temperature-control system. It's similar to how pellet grills run too, save that they mechanically feed pellets from their hoppers into a separate fire box inside their cooking chambers. Cooking with the Gravity Series Not sure why these are different. I have a little caution as to how long they will last and how much babysitting they will need.The standout feature of the Masterbuilt 560, aside from its intuitive design, is its ability to control the temperature of the BBQ using a digital fan system found on its underside. The 560 is the original Gravity-Fed charcoal bbq from Masterbuilt. Charcoal sits in the side hopper and a fan blows the heated air into the cooking chamber. And of course, what’s a smoker test from AmazingRibs.com without ribs? Here are the results of a 6-hour low & slow BBQ rib cook following our Last Meal Ribs recipe. Once again, a successful cook and a very happy mouth.
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