I bought the rotisserie in hopes of cooking the Thanksgiving turkey on it. I did a couple chickens to fine tune my technique and here are my thoughts. I have the 800 and the first thing I noticed is that the middle shelf does not fit back in the grill with the bracket for the right side of the rotisserie. That means you have to fully assemble the thing each time you want to use it, or leave the middle shelf out. You can shove it in there backwards but it is something that was obviously overlooked when designing the hardware. Second thing. It's only rated to 20lbs which I think is generous. I had an 18lb turkey and no matter how centered I had the weight it would not spin it. I tried for an hour. Ended up spatchcocking the bird. Chickens come out great and I suppose other lighter items would too. So the once a year thing I bought it for specifically it will not do but now I have it and I'll make the best of it.