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frontpageppxyz1 | Staff posted Aug 18, 2025 07:50 PM
Masterbuilt AutoIgnite 545 Digital Charcoal Grill and Smoker Combo
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i don't think using up grill space or refilling more would be an issue as I truly just want to grill with it rather than smoke.
hoping to see home Depot or Lowe's price match tho for local pickup and get military discount.
i don't think using up grill space or refilling more would be an issue as I truly just want to grill with it rather than smoke.
hoping to see home Depot or Lowe's price match tho for local pickup and get military discount.
I compared it to a $60 rusty camp chef pellet grill I got off of fb marketplace and I'm going to try returning this grill back to lowes.
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Performance is good and you can get a lot of smoke flavor just throwing in a chunk of wood. I find my cooks to come out more consistent with this grill vs my pellet smoker which is a Green Mountain Daniel Boone. I haven't really used my pellet grill since getting this, but will use it for overflow or for the pizza attachment moving forward.
I love that after loading in the charcoal in and a starter that it only takes maybe 5-10 minutes to get up to temperature. I feel like it took 5 minutes just for my pellet grill to get to the starting 150 temperature, then another 5-15 minutes to get to set temperature depending how hot I set it. My pellet grill never gave the smokey flavors/tones to the food I cook in the way the 545 does. The sear plate is a neat idea and I've used it a few times to reverse-sear. I like that I can line most of the lower interior with foil to keep it clean.
I've had great luck with Jealous Devil Chunx charcoal and Diamond Strike-a-Fire starters (I'll break the strike-a-fire into 1/3's that fit the lighter tray and save 1/3rd for the next time, turns out to be plenty cost-effective. I used Western brand wood chunks so far if I want to give the food smokey flavor. Whatever you put in the hopper will most likely burn up completely, sometimes I have a few small pieces leftover but you'll only want to load in what you think you're going to use. For short cooks, I'll load 1/4 to 1/3 of the hopper, for long cooks I'll load the whole thing
The lowest set point appears to be 250 degrees. a full hopper yields 10-12 hours (maybe longer) in my experience so far when I did shredded beef via chuck roast. You can add more charcoal if you run out but I would recommend reloading it well before it gets low if you think you'll need it. The grill maintains temperature extremely well especially after the charcoal is mostly lit (at the beginning minutes it will fluctuate by +-5-10 degrees, then stabilizes to +-4 degrees off set point). When running above 500 degrees, it does get difficult to handle the food as the heat coming off of the grill is intense to the point where I should probably be wearing gloves.
The Tom Horsman reviews convinced me to pull the trigger on it and I can say that I'm happy with this grill. So far I've found the small ash tray to be somewhat of a non-issue but could potentially see where it could be with the extra long cooking sessions.
I was wondering if I could run this on a 300W portable battery pack, I finally found the power requirements for this which makes me think that I should be able to:
• 100-120VAC, 60HZ, 1.1A, 82W
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