Hey guys probably I ended up pulling trigger on the Weber Summit® Kamado E6 Charcoal Grill about two weeks ago. Got the lower price version without the integrated table or propane charcoal ignition system.
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Really happy with it so far. I also have a Weber Smokey Mountain and pretty sure that guy is going to be retired in favor of this. So far I've done 3 smoke cooks and 5 grill cooks and think weber really nailed the dual/multi purpose target due to variety of locations available for placement of the charcoal.
Smoking it held 230-250 for hours using very little fuel and only moderate vent adjustment. I'm thinking to add a Thermoworks Smoke X2 or X4 and Billows to control for overnight cooks because I do love gadgets but not sure it really needs it. Pretty sure with the Smoke and Billows I could get the WSM to even out and hold temps for overnight cooks but with higher fuel consumption and without that awesome ash management system.
I'm equally happy with how it performs as a grill. The design makes it simple to put a blistering hot bed of coals immediately under the cooking grate in part of the kettle while maintaining a hot indirect fire zone in another area of the grill. I'm playing around with what works best, have tried the hot direct zone in the middle of the circle and at the edge or at either edge and all work well and cook intuitively. For grilling fish and steaks I was able to position the surface of the burning coals about 1" below the cooking grate and seared the steaks over the direct heat before moving them to the indirect zone. Am thinking this will work really well for sous vide searing too. For grilling hamburgers I used the lower rack about 6" lower and grilled them over direct heat until done.
If you check out some youtube videos you will see they have gone through a couple iterations on the design. The smoke damper plate is no longer double walled or hinged. The old design looked cooler than what is included now but really what is included now seems to work just fine. The casters and legs are sturdy and the unit doesn't wobble like was reported with earlier generations.