I have cooked steak, chicken, sausages, and baked potato in this. It has presets for different types of meat or you can customize your own. Load the pellets in the hopper, make sure there of water in the bin. Start it up and let it preheat. It’s quiet and I didn’t have any smoke smell in my kitchen. It cooked everything perfectly to what I had set the temp and smoke level to. It’s a smaller unit, so you won’t really be able to smoke nothing large in it. It was easy to assemble. I like the thermometer that comes with it so you can make sure your food is cooked to the correct temperature.