I have had my Big Joe for a few years now and I was extremely happy to find out that I wasn't a bad grill cook, I just had the wrong grill. I had honestly stopped cooking steaks at home because the time and effort was not worth the results. I will never forget seeing my boys eat their first steak off the Big Joe and no lie at 10 years old and 13 years old they each ate what had to be a 12oz steak. My oldest never really enjoyed steak and now he ask for "Steak on the good grill". But its not just steak everything cooks better off a Joe. So don't be intimidated that is runs on charcoal and doesn't have a control knob it is so easy to control the temperature you wont want to cook on anything else. And to make things even easier get your self a quick light torch, I can get my Joe up to 700 degrees in 15 minutes, faster than any gas grill I have ever seen. I will always have a Joe, and judging by the quality it will probably be the one I already have.