Brisk It’s Beginner-friendly Smart Smoker Is More Than $100 Off For Labor Day

The Zelos 450 is presently $121 off. | Image: Brandt Ranj

My desire to make authentic-tasing barbecue astatine location was ever tempered by nan intimidation of regularly utilizing a smoker. I’ve tried a mates of smart smokers before, but nary were arsenic easy to group up, navigator with, and support arsenic Brisk It’s Zelos-450. An early Labor Day woody has dropped its value to astir $328.99 ($121 off) astatine Amazon, Walmart, and from Brisk It.

The Zelos-450 has 450 quadrate inches of cooking space, and tin scope up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, though you’ll mostly beryllium cooking astatine temperatures good beneath nan maximum erstwhile smoking. It burns pellets to create smoke, but is powered by electricity, which intends you’ll request to person an accessible outlet to navigator pinch it. 

The smoker took astir an hr (and 2 people) to afloat assemble, including mounting up an relationship successful nan Brisk It mobile app, and connecting Zelos-450 to my Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi connectivity allows you to ignite and unopen down nan smoker aliases set its somesthesia mid-cook from your smartphone. It besides allows you to entree Brisk It’s Vera AI, an optional virtual adjunct that tin create recipes and negociate your cooks automatically based connected sound and matter prompts aliases a photo. 

I’ve utilized Vera for inspiration, but mostly stuck to recipes I recovered successful cookbooks aliases online. Having a smart guideline tin beryllium helpful, but I’m gladsome Brisk It isn’t overly pushy astir utilizing it. You tin disregard astir of its smart aliases connected features wholly by igniting and managing nan smoker from its power panel. At minimum I urge turning connected app notifications to get an alert erstwhile nan smoker has reached your desired temperature.

I’ve cooked wings, pork butt, ribs, burgers, chickenhearted thighs, and sausage connected nan Zelos 450, and nan results were amazingly bully considering my novice status. Meat was tender, pinch a batch of steaming flavor, and required very small maintenance. The smoker comes pinch a nutrient probe, truthful I could quickly cheque nan soul somesthesia of larger cuts from my telephone and get an alert erstwhile they were done. When cooking smaller items, I relied connected a previous-generation Typur InstaProbe Instant Read Meat Thermometer to return readings manually, which worked really well. 

One of my concerns earlier trying nan smoker was having to support its proviso of wood pellets, but nan Zelos 450 has been beautiful blimpish astir utilizing them, truthful I haven’t had to apical up nan proviso frequently. Cooking connected nan Zelos-450 requires clip and patience (upwards of 18 hours for brisket). You tin navigator nutrient a batch much quickly connected a grill aliases successful a pan, but nan flavor, successful my experience, makes smoking them worthy nan wait. I highly urge picking up Brisk-It’s Waterproof Smoker Cover.