The package was more compact than expected, but everything was neatly wrapped up, so that no part of the transport of bore damage.
The structure was also alone afloat against the information in some other reviews. In my view, the guidance was adequate, and if one has a little imagination it should fold up easily.
While I can in retrospect not say whether all screws and nuts have taken the measures provided for a seat as this is not obvious from the manual and a bit left over, but as long as everything is as desired stable and functional, I have no problem with that.
You can all of course to perfection bring by heat-resistant silicone and tape are used to seal the oven chambers, but the was not an option for me because I multifunctional use the Colossus as fireplace, smoke oven or standard crickets and the materials despite the already high capacity are not sufficient for my purposes. I consider it to operate the expense of the full sealing because the device by its heavy components that heat retains absolutely sufficient in itself for the normal weekend griller as unnecessary.
Grilling with the El Fuego is super exciting and thrilling. The creativity are truly no limits:
The small chamber has one hand over a coal or firewood grate, but also Garrost is included so you can use them as a cooking surface.
The gigantic large cooking chamber, however, is equipped with a height adjustable charcoal grid, which has a separate grease and ash collecting tray. This facilitates cleaning immensely, since you only empty the ashes and the drip tray must scrub. About the grate the cooking surface is huge with two individually removable grates. Worth mentioning is also the warming rack located in the lid and a participating for all simultaneous food start possible.
The lid is also located outside the well-read thermometer for cooking chamber.
Of course it can not be avoided that some fat and ashes inside the cooking chamber lands next to the drip tray, for easy cleaning and cleaning I recommend for the chamber beforehand with aluminum foil lined best extra-wide Pizza Grill aluminum foil and this simply folded after cooling refer including fat and ash residues. Most grills can in the dishwasher, only those that are too big for that you have to manually cleaning.
But if you save the complex complete cleaning of Smokers, and is much faster and cleaner at the destination and unpack needs no chemical lobes or to scratch the oven chambers.
The first Angrillen with my new Powerlok was a true success, very satisfactory and of course filling. I've never cooked through such a huge mountain of flesh with as little Holzohle. But by the height adjustable heat field can regulate directly acting of the grill very well. One should not be impatient constantly tearing the lid only, thereby the cooking chamber every time cold and the aromatic smoke evaporates immediately.
When the lid is closed and after the meat was cooked, the thermometer showed the heat after 3 hrs. Still 150 ° C as long as was saved.
Each can live with a decent quality and a smoker in this price range can I look for the El Fuego highly recommend smoking. Compared to many a crap in this class of barbecue is the best choice!