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Meco 5030 Electric Grill and Combination Water Smoker |  | Brand: Meco Grills
List Price: $149.55
Buy New: $92.99
as of 9/6/2010 12:03 CDT details
You Save: $56.56 (38%)
New (4) from $92.99
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 7443
Color: Satin Black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 25.4
Dimensions (in): 17.3 x 22.6 x 17.3
MPN: 5030.4.181
Model: 5030-4-181
UPC: 042952049461
EAN: 0042952049461
ASIN: B0007XXNU4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Electric Water Smoker | | • | 1650 Watt Heating Element | | • | Removable Thermostat | | • | Heat Resistant Wood side and Hood Handles | | • | 351 Square Inches of Cooking Surface |
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Product Description
With 1500-watts of cooking and smoking power the Electric Water Smoker is just what every cookout needs. 351 square inches of cooking space provide plenty of room for cooking hot dogs and hamburgers. The built in temperature gauge lets you know when the grill is hot enough. Wooden handles don't get hot, so you can easily take the lid off while cooking. Stands on sturdy heavy duty reinforced steel legs. Comes with a procelainized 5 1/2 quart water pan. Assembly level/degree of difficulty: Moderate. Made in America
Amazon.com Review
No more tending the coals every hour when smoking meats; Meco's Combo Water Smoker offers optimal control, longer cook time, and less monitoring than traditional charcoal smokers. Perfect for smoking chicken, fish, and other meats to a savory finish, the combo smoker coils boil water to produce steam and burn wood chips to produce smoke that, together, more efficiently penetrate and flavor meats while they cook. The combo smoker features a removable thermostat control with low, medium, and high settings for smoking just about anything, from thin strips of sockeye to thick beef briskets. The smoker plugs into standard household outlets and converts quickly into an electric, lock-and-go, portable grill. Two nickel-plated, 15-1/2-inch cooking grids let you cook at different levels. With 351 square inches of cooking surface, there's room to smoke nearly 50 pounds of meat at once. A porcelain-glazed pan holds 5-1/2 quarts of water to last up to five hours for extended smoking operations. Sliding access doors make it easy to check water levels and add more if necessary. Meco designed this smoker so that you can add wood and water without even removing the cover, so heat loss is minimal and meats are tender. A 1,650-watt heating element ensures even heat distribution from top to bottom. Heat-resistant wood handles on the sides and hood mean easy transport and monitoring. And, the grids inside are equipped with durable handles, so there's no messy oven mitt to clean afterward! --Brian Olson
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 25
 Meco Electric Grill July 22, 2010
Anais G. Watsky
This is 2nd identical grill I have owned. Great for slow cooking meats without having to add periodic charcoal load.
Had to assemble which is not difficult but a little time consuming. The main body had a small dent in it and the lid had a small amount of rust inside...this was disappointing but not severe enough for me to return it.
The first one lasted several years so I am looking forward to a long life on this one.
 Meco is the way to go July 15, 2010
Mary Ann
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Meco 5030 Electric Grill and Combination Water Smoker
What a joy to cook on! The wood chips make the smokiness come out, and the elctricity makes cooking everything evenly quite easy. What would take 8 to 10 hours on the charcoal smoker is done within 4 hours. The best thing is - no more worries about food that is not entirely cooked.
 Piece of CRAP... Don't buy it! May 23, 2010
Richard B. Albury (Fort Lauderdale, Fl United States)
Cheap workmanship but i was willing to live with that. It worked ok the first 3 or 4 times. The owners manual did say to put the thermostat to HIGH as a general cooking tip, this should have been a clue. After 3 or 4 uses i found it was taking longer and longer to smoke whatever i put in the thing. At this point I don't think the thing is generating 150deg and as i am writing my family is starving while waiting for the ribs to finally become somewhat tender. I live in the Bahamas so outside temp. is not an issue, in fact i think if i were to remove the top my family would be enjoying our ribs sooner.
I can't tell you what to buy, but I CAN tell you don't buy this piece of Crap.
Junk! August 2, 2009
Kurt W. Baumgarten (Mendon, MA United States)
Total wast of money. Will not heat up enough to cook anything unless you plan to cook it over the course of three to four days. Because the heating element it soo cheap and the fit of the rest of the smoker is loose - it will not hold even enough heat to generate smoke. The design of having a smoking pan at the bottom that is also the base for the heating element just does not work. It even has a hole in the middle of the smoking pan for ???What??? I dont know. Its a water smoker and has a water pan between the element and the meat - so it cant be for a drip cup. Just an all around aweful thing. I went out to Lowes and bought a Brinkman $89 electric water smoker that does a MUCH better job. Amazon should not even sell these as they really are not fit for use. Total garbage and now in the garbage!
DON'T BUY! - Lasted 9 months: Already THROWN Away - Electrical Problems October 16, 2008
K. Laere (San Francisco, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm editing my review (thanks Amazon) less than a year later (about 9 months) to tell you I've already TRASHED this smoker. I have run into the same exact problem other have, namely the dreaded electic element/controller burnout. Don't believe me? Check out Amazon's own page on the replacement element (http://www.amazon.com/Meco-Replacement-Heating-Element-Grills/dp/B0000CGEQX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1247782625&sr=1-1) which gets a two star review by the way. The reviews on the side of the main Meco 5030 page tell the story, as others mention the power problems.
I noticed that the smoker had been having temperature issues and ended up checking the electrode of the heating element. Sure enough, one had cracked completely where it joined the element, and melted (metal) itself so that it wasn't straight anymore. The electic controller had plastic burn marks at the hole and the conductors where burned as well. I even thought about shelling out the $50 bucks to replace these parts, but then noticed that people were having these issues over and over again, even with the replacments!
If you buy this smoker, you expose yourself to a systematic defect since there seem to be numerous instances of this. I can't believe this grill didn't last a year. On top of that, the wire grills are rusted out and have lost their coating and the thermostat is broken as well.
Planned Obsolescence? Perhaps, but they won't be getting any more of MY money. I'm buying a new smoker: the Old Smokey Electric. So long, Meco. There's a reason why the smoker gets lots of one and two star reviews.
DON'T BUY!
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