I’ve made some really delicious bbq in this smoker. Yesterday’s pork butt was on 9 hours low and slow, it came out great.

Hope you enjoy it!

LOL! This pork butt was awesome. Tomorrow the left overs go into a pork and beans casserole my friend, you’re gonna say, look at the goodness!

Hi Norman, hope you're doing well, good to hear from you.

Great idea!

Hey Rusty, I like it. It's bigger than what I need, but then, that's all part of the smoking thing I guess!

I didn't think I would like pellets for a smoker, I was going to build my own wood smoker. It makes some great barbeque, but there is maintenance of the auger and mostly keeping the inside clean. Have to vacuum the firebox out before each smoke, it fills with ash and so forth- but once you learn, it works good.

@@CraigArndt I bet you're a good cook too

Thanks Duke!

Basshead The paint on this smoker is like a peened enamel finish, I haven’t had any flaking around the door or on the door. This smoker isn’t comparable to a master built at all. I owned one with an analog dial and scrapped it last year. Even a top of the line Masterbuilt doesn’t come close to this. Now this is a good smoker, it’s affordable and it works great. Now maybe a Traeger is a lot better, I’m not sure, but for my purposes, this makes awesome bbq. And you can smoke a ton of food. I usually run it 275° for most things I smoke, I get a nice deep smoke ring and lots of flavor. Takes about 1.5 hours to put together, but you get a good look at the unit. Hope that helps.

Craig Arndt awesome. I looked at these on Walmart’s website this morning now it says item cant be found. Hope it is a webpage error. Thanks for the info. You sold me on this.

Craig Arndt if you haven’t stumbled upon it yet check out the channel called “weekend warrior bbq” he does a lot on the pit boss vertical smokers. I believe I heard him talking about pit boss sponsoring him? He has a lot of great videos and information. He has good recipes, maintenance, general information.

Cool I will check him out!

4 shoulders is easy for the 5 Series. You could put 4 on one rack if they were 6-9 pounds a piece and still not have them touch. The 5 series is deep like the 7, but probably not as tall. But the taller it is, the colder the top is. I do a pan of baked beans and beef closer to the top, two butts below on one rack. Sometimes I do two or three racks of ribs on one rack, two beer can chickens above… which takes a lot of space. Lots and lots of adjustments for shelves, loads of holes to move them up or down. Make sure to buy from Amazon an extra temp Probe. I like to put one on the top rack so I know the temp on the top shelf.

@@CraigArndt super helpful, thank you!

There is nothing I've done on my 5 series that I couldn't have done on a 3 series. When I bought it at Walmart, they just started carrying Pit Boss and the 5 is what was available. I always have shelves stacked at the top of the smoker I don't use. If you aren't cooking for 20 people, get the 3.

@@CraigArndt Thanks, I ended up finding the pro series at Lowe's. I'm starting my first cook tomorrow morning. Crossin my fingers the whole place doesn't blow.

I heard the ErH is that sensor probe behind the fire box. I keep mine clean but heard there have been issues. I think the pellet type is the culprit too. I used apple pellets, everything was coated in a sticky tar. These things like clean pellets. I'll check out your channel, thanks for posting Ric.

I really liked the unit. I guess I got a lemon. What I didn’t like was the customer service. That’s the main reason I took it back

Same issue @Ric’s. We got one from Lowe’s and it threw nothing but codes. Ended up returning it and getting one of their pellet grills.

It’s a great smoker, I could have gone with the a Series 3 that was smaller. I’ve smoked two pork butts when we had family over, but I don’t do enough meat to fill this baby up.