AGGPRO

Yesterday I received a mail from an individual who had an engaging problem and I would like to share it with you as you may of encountered the very same thing. His e-mail was this:

We built a natural gas fire pit and put a lot of colored glass chips in it. It works great, looks amazing but is worthless for roasting marshmallows : (.

It feels like an open flame just lights the marshmallows ... We need coals. But I do not really want to put wood in and deal with the ashes.

Ideas?

Thanks!

We here at Lava Rocks for Fire Pits.com never had a question or problem of this nature presented to us, but upon reflexion and talking about it with our staff this was our solution to this problem. We had seen it done before but only by a couple of folks.

our return email went as follows:

Your email was engaging, we hadn't ever heard about this sort of problem before.

Glass chips make for a pretty fire, one where you wouldn't need to mess it up with food drippings like marshmallows or hotdogs and so on. And glass won't hold heat very well; or reflect radiant heat also.

Lava rock appears to get only better with age due to the carbon build up caused from food burn to a "carbon crisp" (and lava rock hides these crumbs as the rock isn't so uniform in size and colour and is permeable). The heat built up in the lava rock with natural gas or propane pumps out better for roasting those party favourites because of the thin walls of the lava rocks ' micro caves, occasionally turning them growing red (so creating ember like effects).

It all reduces down to a couple things you need to decide for yourself, and only you can answer them. Are you wanting a pretty fire pit or a handy fun fire pit? Or better why not both?

I've seen both functions built into the same fire pit.

In this one case we have seen, they put a double gas ring in the pit with one rings being bigger in diameter than the other. And dependent on your taste and style you are trying for, they put coloured glass chips in the center over the smaller gas ring and lava rock on the outside over the bigger diameter gas ring.

What this did was sort of cool. When these folks wanted just pretty flames they turned on the center gas ring which was under the glass chips; but when they needed a fun roasting flame they would switch on the bigger outside ring, the one under the lava rock.

This could be something to consider.

I only wish you all the best and have fun with this.

Lee

Building a back garden fire pit is fun and still can be terribly handy. There isn't any need to sacrifice one for the other when you can have both. I hope this text permits you to see that you can create a very unique and fun fire pit for you own backyard. Its something new to think about.