What’s the point of a fire pit or fire table?
If you love the romance of sitting by a fire after a meal, or you’re looking for a way to extend the outdoor season by keeping your patio warmer on chilly nights, you’re going to love having a fire table. Natural gas and propane fire tables like ours are a low maintenance and—if we say so ourselves—beautiful addition to any deck or patio.
What’s the best kind of fire table or fire pit? What do you fill it with?
If you prefer a concrete fire table, we offer two ways to fuel them: natural gas and propane. Inside each, you’ll find nonflammable lava rock and decorative beach stones over a burner mechanism. Our aluminum propane fire pits contain pumice stone and lava rock.
If you order the natural gas concrete fire table, it works similarly to a gas fireplace; if you’re used to a propane grill, you’ll have no problem managing a propane fire table or fire pit. We even sell an additional decorative propane tank enclosure as a companion to our concrete fire tables to discreetly cover your propane tank.
Our fire tables don’t require wood or kindling of any kind, and you don’t have to clean or store a stainless steel bowl. Just keep in mind that because the stones are designed to be in our fire tables and fire pits permanently, our fire tables aren’t designed for cooking. To keep leaves and other debris out of your fire table, it’s also a good idea to cover it when it’s not in use, after you cool it down.
What’s the difference between a fire pit and a fire table?
We use the term fire table for our rectangular or square concrete fire tables and fire pit for our smaller, circular metal propane fire pit.
A lot of people use the terms fire pit and fire table interchangeably, but we think of fire pits as more portable. You can, provided you follow the placement guidelines in your installation manual, move your fire pit around as needed. A concrete fire table, especially one connected to a natural gas line, would be harder to move.