I've never smoked anything in my life by myself, I figured I'd see if this thing would do what they said it would do, with the marinade vat, vapor and all. I had a whitetail front leg in the freezer that I hadn't cooked because of all the horror stories I'd heard about it drying out, being bland, under done in the middle - whatever. I put the freshly thawed leg on the grill with no coating, oil, wrap, rub, injection, just nothing. I filled the marinade vat all the way with water, and then drained off about 3 cups. I filled the vat back to the top with wine. I set the temp at 275, put 2 unsoaked chunks of pecan on the direct grate, and let er run for 11 hours. Every 2 hours I'd check the temp (which didnt move), add 2 more chunks of pecan, and top the vat up with wine. I did turn the leg over at 6 hours. I'm telling you when it was all done, I could nuke the leftovers and still be able to squeeze the juice out of the meat! all it needed was salt & pepper. #imsiked