I’m talking about the kind that you can put on patio at your house.
Something like this.
Can I also use it on my deck? I would assume it’s safe for deck use because it comes with a lid to keep ash & other firery substances at bay.
For those of you who have one. What do you like about it? What do you hate about it? What would change if you were to buy another one?
We almost burnt down someone’s deck once with one. It was slightly smaller and more mobile than the one you linked to. After a night of sitting in front of the fire and drinking it started to rain and it was almost out anyway so he left it alone. By the morning I could smell smoke and discovered it was very slowly burning through their deck. There was no visible flame, just a slow burn. I have no idea how something hot got out and onto the deck to burn it. In retrospect I regret not checking to make sure he’d put the fire out, especially since I was visiting from out of town and sleeping there. I had just assumed he was responsible.
Anyway I had visited and used that friend’s fire pit a couple times and it was sort of neat. Certainly a hell of a lot better than making a little fire out of nothing in the yard. But honestly i was pretty bored with it by the time we burned his deck down. We made s’mores once.
I’ve had one of those for a while now… We used it on our deck once with charcoal without incident, but we have never used it since, and now its all rusty and needs to be thrown away. For that reason I would not buy another (we just didn’t use it).
I got a table with a little fire pit in it as part of my deck furniture for my new deck.
I haven’t used it yet because the deck hasn’t been stained or sealed.
When I first put it out, I learned right away that it doesn’t have any drainage holes (for good reason, I’d suspect) so it just sat and rusted. I painted it with grill spraypaint (made to withstand heat) and stored the pan away.
My idea for next year is to get a special fireproof mat (like this random one - google “chimnea mat”) to use under my table.
I hope it goes well!
Ha ha, not much of a pyro, I guess. 
OP, sure you can use it on a deck. I would just make sure you have it at least 10-15 feet away from the house. You can get patio bricks or one of those fireproof mats to put under it as a safety precaution. You can also buy waterproof covers so it doesn’t get rusty. When I got one, I at first thought that the copper ones looked cool, but then realized that it probably wouldn’t take long for that shiny copper to get all dirty, so I went with black.
We’ve had a copper bowl for five or six years now. It’s held up well, although obviously not shiny any more. It has a mesh cover you can use while it’s burning, but I doubt the cover would hold up long if it was on when there were flames touching it. We only use it when there are just coals left. Also, the handle (like the one in the picture) is right in the middle, so you can’t just pick it up to add more wood. I think it came with a lifter thing, but then you don’t have good control over it when you’re lifting it. I think that’s just a burn waiting to happen.
Last weekend, we had a fire, and for a whilethere was a lot of popping, with glowing pieces flying out of the bowl. That happens sometimes. Ours is on a brick patio, so it wasn’t a fire hazard, but on a deck it would be a problem.
We had a few friends with different types of fire pits, so when we got ours we looked for one that didn’t have the disadvantages we’d noticed with each of theirs. Ours is something like this.
The table-centered ones look really neat, but it can be a pain always leaning way over the table thing to mess about with things. The chimneas are pleasant looking, but only if you’re sitting directly in front of the open window part.
I love the way food tastes grilled over a wood fire, and the style we bought has an awesome huge grill to lay over it. I like the multi-tasking nature of it.
Burning spitting embers outdoors where the wind can whip them around is a bad idea on a wood deck.
I have a large copper bowl resting on an iron stand sitting on a fairly large wooden deck and I really enjoy it. It is fun to sit around the fire drinking beer and talking. Its popular with relatives, they ask if we can have a fire (especially the kids). The kids like it because they can roast marshmallows and throw sticks and stuff in there, but you have to be very vigilant because the bowl gets very hot. I’ve had it for about 4 or 5 years so it looks discolored but still looks good. It is kind of a pain to clean out the ashes out, but probably easier than cleaning up a fireplace. When not in use I put it upside down so it doesn’t get filled up with rain water.
