Well I smoked my bacon in moms big green egg..... I'm not impressed, the charcoal went out, I re lit it this morning and it took a good two hours to come up to 400deg I'm thinking I did something wrong , the bacon was done, but I relit it to fry the slices, I'm thinking that a steak in it would not get hot enough fast enough for my liking, I guess, I'm sure it's just a matter of learning how to work it but for 1000$ the learning curve is expensive, my 59$ hibachi works just fine for right now