BioLite FirePit
Everyone loves sitting around a campfire but no one likes to get pummeled with clouds of smoke. After playing musical chairs around billowing smoke clouds from campfires at team campouts, BioLite decided to do something about it and set out to develop its largest combustion project yet, designing a unit that could provide the warmth and attraction of a classic outdoor fire but with a major upgrade to the physics inside to get rid of the smoke. The goal wasn’t to replace the campfire – just to make it better.
The BioLite FirePit is a smokeless wood-burning device that cooks meals and gives users a front-row seat to everything going on inside their fire. Across the body of the FirePit there are 51 air jets that inject the fire with oxygen along key locations thanks to the fan located inside the USB-rechargeable orange power pack. This creates a more uniform temperature and mixing of gases inside the fire which dramatically improves combustion. Users get the crackling, the smell, and the feel of a robust wood fire without the smoke. With BioLite’s X-Ray Mesh Body users can also see exactly what’s going on inside their fire: glowing embers at the bottom, the gasifying wood in the middle, and the vortex of flames coming out at the top. Rather than staring at a metal can or a cylinder of bricks, they get a full fire that shows every step of the combustion process. At 19 pounds, the FirePit weighs about the same as a fully loaded cooler and can easily be transported from the backyard to campsites, picnics, beaches, and more.
