Joe, you have a clear view and payed attention to how your grate and mod has worked for you. Your Investigation and reporting is clear and understandable. I wonder where us users will take all this before a perfect solution is found. I hope MB is following these videos and have put an engineer on coming up with a full replacement upgrade for us. I know you have seen mine and its not by any means perfect for all cooking temperatures YET. Lets agree to keep tweaking. You have lit a fire 🔥 under my behind and I'll give this another look myself. ;) Good job keeping the spotlight on this. 👍
I agree. I really think a grate that has a slide to control the gap distance is the best solution if Masterbuilt ever comes up with a design like that. This is a simple solution that pretty much anyone can do. I guarantee a fabricator could put a really nice option together.
@@randomjoe7646 if only I had such a place to go and talk to someone. You have suggested what I think is perfect. A compleat replacement that just swaps out the original. About where we slide in the tumble weed starter stick could be a small handle that can move left and right that would shake the ashes into the catch bucket and then have the left right action widen and narrow the opening and we then choose to place the handle to how much the gap would be. I can easily draw it on a napkin right now. Two identical plates with little slots with large rivets. The base plate would be full size replacement and a bit smaller one to allow side to side shift and gap opening. No springs needed. Bam! Depending if we ever get to leave our houses I can see making a sample for a test run. Anyone out there able to make quantity if they had a working model?
I had once that I hadn't cleaned the grill for a while and was making a full grill of burgers and had a big grease fire that melted the grill switch. I got a new one from Masterbuilt and put it in no problem and everything was fine again. It can definitely happen but in my case it was mainly because I hadn't cleaned it out for too long and had a lot of grease because of cooking so many burgers at once. More a me problem than the grill. Other than that, it's been a really good grill.
@@randomjoe7646 Thank for your honest answer. I am still on the fence about this grill because of all the issues but I also see those professional smokers that never mention those issues after numerous cooks. It gets you thinking about their loyalities. Just my 2 cent.
i just picked up a 1050 myself. I think your right with the condensation being a problem. What do you think about leaving a door not sealed at the hopper once the fire is out? Sounds like a pain but may be a “preventative maintenance” thing to do. Doing my first burn in tonight so I might try it and see what happens.
I think the only concern I have is wind or rain. You also need to make sure that the fire is completely out before you are able to open it up so it would mean going back out later to do it, which is fine, just something you'd need to remember. I think ultimately they should have went with stainless steel on the inside for this reason, or a much better treatment on the metal. I'm hoping it's something they consider for the future.
Great reviews, keep them coming . Question please with time I can see the metal at the bottom of the hopper deteriorating due to the constant heat , can you tell me if you think that section of the hopper or in-fact the whole hopper could be replaceable ? thanks in advance
Yes, it could be replaceable. There are some mods out there where they've made stainless steel liners to put in, which really should correct that problem. I do think that is the weakest part of the grill and I think it's due to condensation build-up.
RandomJoe Understand and thank you Does the fan sit along side the fire and draws in the heat to the bbq ? Can you see any issue with the fan long term ?
@@AntMan-dm7vs The fan is under the grill and blow air into the fire, which then exhausts back up into the grill. So the fan is continously pulling in fresh air. I don't foresee the fan having any more problem than the fan on other pellet grills, etc. It's honestly a pretty common type of fan that would be easy to replace if it did. I've seen people swap them out already for other fans when they were doing Fireboard mods.
I've been very happy with it. Food tastes great, I can really get the sear on things that I wanted and didn't feel I could get hot enough on Pellet Grills, really happy so far. I still question how well the interior on that box will hold up due to the condensation. So far it hasn't given me any actual problems but we'll see over time how it goes.
Joe, you have a clear view and payed attention to how your grate and mod has worked for you. Your Investigation and reporting is clear and understandable. I wonder where us users will take all this before a perfect solution is found. I hope MB is following these videos and have put an engineer on coming up with a full replacement upgrade for us. I know you have seen mine and its not by any means perfect for all cooking temperatures YET. Lets agree to keep tweaking.
You have lit a fire 🔥 under my behind and I'll give this another look myself. ;)
Good job keeping the spotlight on this. 👍
I agree. I really think a grate that has a slide to control the gap distance is the best solution if Masterbuilt ever comes up with a design like that. This is a simple solution that pretty much anyone can do. I guarantee a fabricator could put a really nice option together.
@@randomjoe7646 if only I had such a place to go and talk to someone. You have suggested what I think is perfect. A compleat replacement that just swaps out the original. About where we slide in the tumble weed starter stick could be a small handle that can move left and right that would shake the ashes into the catch bucket and then have the left right action widen and narrow the opening and we then choose to place the handle to how much the gap would be. I can easily draw it on a napkin right now. Two identical plates with little slots with large rivets. The base plate would be full size replacement and a bit smaller one to allow side to side shift and gap opening. No springs needed. Bam!
Depending if we ever get to leave our houses I can see making a sample for a test run. Anyone out there able to make quantity if they had a working model?
@@MXP90DL Exactly my thinking. I'm not a fabricator by any means but someone with basic skills could probably easily make something.
thank you for the update!
No problem. Quickly done but wanted people to know how it held up.
Great Mod. How is your grill and switches holding up. I see a lot of you tubes where switches melt especially the grill one.
I had once that I hadn't cleaned the grill for a while and was making a full grill of burgers and had a big grease fire that melted the grill switch. I got a new one from Masterbuilt and put it in no problem and everything was fine again. It can definitely happen but in my case it was mainly because I hadn't cleaned it out for too long and had a lot of grease because of cooking so many burgers at once. More a me problem than the grill. Other than that, it's been a really good grill.
@@randomjoe7646 Thank for your honest answer. I am still on the fence about this grill because of all the issues but I also see those professional smokers that never mention those issues after numerous cooks. It gets you thinking about their loyalities. Just my 2 cent.
Use aircraft stainless safety wire to secure the skewers
huh, not a bad suggestion.
Do you cover your unit after each use?
I don't but I probably should.
i just picked up a 1050 myself. I think your right with the condensation being a problem. What do you think about leaving a door not sealed at the hopper once the fire is out? Sounds like a pain but may be a “preventative maintenance” thing to do. Doing my first burn in tonight so I might try it and see what happens.
I think the only concern I have is wind or rain. You also need to make sure that the fire is completely out before you are able to open it up so it would mean going back out later to do it, which is fine, just something you'd need to remember. I think ultimately they should have went with stainless steel on the inside for this reason, or a much better treatment on the metal. I'm hoping it's something they consider for the future.
Great reviews, keep them coming . Question please with time I can see the metal at the bottom of the hopper deteriorating due to the constant heat , can you tell me if you think that section of the hopper or in-fact the whole hopper could be replaceable ? thanks in advance
Yes, it could be replaceable. There are some mods out there where they've made stainless steel liners to put in, which really should correct that problem. I do think that is the weakest part of the grill and I think it's due to condensation build-up.
RandomJoe
Understand and thank you
Does the fan sit along side the fire and draws in the heat to the bbq ? Can you see any issue with the fan long term ?
@@AntMan-dm7vs The fan is under the grill and blow air into the fire, which then exhausts back up into the grill. So the fan is continously pulling in fresh air. I don't foresee the fan having any more problem than the fan on other pellet grills, etc. It's honestly a pretty common type of fan that would be easy to replace if it did. I've seen people swap them out already for other fans when they were doing Fireboard mods.
How has the grill been overall and how has food tasted so far? Ahh small world im also watching MX P90D lol
I've been very happy with it. Food tastes great, I can really get the sear on things that I wanted and didn't feel I could get hot enough on Pellet Grills, really happy so far. I still question how well the interior on that box will hold up due to the condensation. So far it hasn't given me any actual problems but we'll see over time how it goes.