![]() ![]() Take extra care if you live in a region where brush fires are of concern.Never burn green wood, construction waste, plastic, garbage, or yard waste.Never burn wood during air quality alert days, when air pollution is already higher. ![]() Cover stacked wood, but allow good air flow so it can dry.Use a moisture meter to check firewood moisture content is best at about 20 percent.Only burn seasoned, dry wood, which burns hotter and cleaner.If you choose to burn wood, reduce particle pollution with these steps: Gas fire pits, fire tables, fireplaces, outdoor kitchens and patio furniture from The Outdoor GreatRoom Company, the perfect place to shop for your outdoor. Be a good neighbor when burning and consider your neighbors, as well as wind direction. Children and teenagers, older adults, and people with heart or lung disease – including asthma and COPD – can be particularly sensitive to the health effects of particle pollution in wood smoke. Solo Stove also offers a smaller size (the Ranger 2.0, which is 15 inches in diameter) and a larger size (the Yukon 2.0, which is 27 inches in diameter) and sells a grill grate accessory kit (we haven’t tested it yet).Smoke from burning wood is made up of a complex mixture of gases and fine particles, which are also called particle pollution or particulate matter. Outdoor recreational fires can become a considerable source of fine-particle air pollution – especially in some metro areas. However, all the stove’s metal sides get very hot to the touch. Also, the thinner-gauge metal of the Bonfire appears to hold and radiate less heat than that of the heavier models we tested. (We compared a fire in the Bonfire with an open wood fire by burning them side by side, using wood from the same source.) One perhaps unforeseen consequence of the smoke-reducing afterburn effect is that all that gas redirection seems to project the heat of the fire straight into the air, cutting down on a lot of the radiant heat you might expect to feel when sitting near a regular fire pit. However, once it gets burning, the Bonfire does eat up a lot of the extra smoke by our admittedly rudimentary estimation, the fire pit reduces smoke by about 70% to 80%. But then, none of the pits we tested are. ![]() Like all the fire pits we tested, the Bonfire is easy to load with wood and to light-though due to the smaller pit diameter, you have to stack standard-size logs carefully to make them fit. It’s also small enough that we had no trouble hiding it behind patio furniture or in the garage when it wasn’t in use. Why it’s great: The Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 is simple and so light-it’s half the weight of our other picks. We have picks that are lightweight and easy to move around, aesthetically unobtrusive for a patio, great for cooking over, sturdily built at a bargain price, and the type you might expect to own for a lifetime. What distinguishes fire pits from one another is largely their looks, how easy they are to clean, and, to some extent, the available accessories.Īs a result, finding the right fire pit for you is a matter of personal choice, depending on your needs. That extra oxygen creates a secondary combustion of the fire’s off gassing, molecules which usually create smoke if they aren’t burned. In the end we chose two as our top picks: the Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 for most people and small backyards, and the Tiki Fire Pit for people with larger yards or those who enjoy the more patio-inspired looks of the Tiki model.Īlthough we did choose two favorites, note that in our testing nearly all the smokeless-pit designs worked more or less the same: They each have two walls (kind of like an insulated thermos bottle), and they leverage the difference in air temperature between those walls to create extra airflow through holes in the walls of the firepit. We spent four months testing nine fire pits in Hawaii and California. Few things are as pleasurable as a toasty fire in the backyard on a chilly evening.īut if you find that the accompanying smoke dampens the pleasure, or if your neighbors live close by and prefer to keep their bedroom windows open to catch the cool air, you might consider using a so-called smokeless fire pit, which eliminates some (but not all) of your fire’s smoke and most of the ash. ![]()
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