It took several hours to assemble this. Each part was wrapped in plastic and boxed in boxes and gobs of styrofoam. There were no labels on each individual part so had to look at the instructions to see if the part looked like the schematics. So after about 3hours it was assembled. Fired it up in accordance with the instructions for the 45 minutes to sanitize the grill. Cooked a steak on it but didn’t turn the baffle open to sear the steak. So I’ll learn with practice.