Some time last year we visited some friends who had a little patio with a nice little fire pit at the focal point. We were amazed by this little pit as it was surprisingly clean burning with little smoke to be constantly dodging. Maybe that's what we need for our backyard campground! I began looking for this fire pit only to be immediately sticker shocked. These smokeless fire pits are $200+ with some models reaching $650! As cool as they are, we can't afford nor justify dropping that much on a fire pit.
We decided to do a little research to figure out how these burned so cleanly. As it turns out, the concept is pretty simple. These fire pits promote air flow to stoke the flame allowing the wood to burn hotter which helps burn off some of the chemical compounds in the wood before they can become smoke. These expensive fire pits achieve this airflow with a set of holes on the bottom of the outside of the pit and another set of wholes on the inner ring of the enclosure near the top. This allows air to travel into the fire pit to keep the fire roaring.
Knowing this, we stumbled upon a design that would get us a hot burning fire with low cost, and best of all, uses upcylced parts destined for the scrap heap. Though perhaps not quite as elegant as the costly Solo Stove, the drum of a washing machine / dryer makes for a great solution! The drums inside of these machines are perfectly sized for back yard fire pits and come full of small hole that allow for plenty of airflow. Not only that, they are cheap or even free! Craigslist is scattered with old washers and dryers, commonly even being posted in the free section. Haul it away and remove the drum and just like that, you've got yourself a free high airflow fire pit. There are many designs for these around the internet like this one posted on Reddit by u/anthonlu/:
We found someone selling the drums already removed from the machines on our local Craigslist board and opted to shell out a few bucks to save our backs a bit of heavy lifting. What we ended up with was a 22" wide washing machine drum. We dug down about 1-1.5 ft into the ground, laid down a simple foundation of bricks, set the drum on top and filled in around the outside of the drum.
We got lucky with the size of our drum, too. It just so happens that the 22" diameter is the exact same as the grate from our Weber grill. With no modification, we can simply place the rack onto the lip of the drum and start cooking directly over the fire. Even the lid pops right on! We are now cooking as much as possible over our firepit / grill. We will soon be posting about our Campfire Pizza and Cast Iron Shrimp Tacos!
It works incredibly well! We've begun having camp fires several nights a week and are now able to achieve our camping goals right in our backyard. We loaded up on firewood (we found a local seller on Facebook marketplace and got it for cheap!) and got a simple rack to hold it all on Amazon (you can also build one yourself!).
Let us know about your adventures in urban camping and anything you've done to bring the great outdoors to your backyard!
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