BioLite FirePit+
Forced air instead of convection, wood or charcoal, and a grill grate that is part of the design rather than an accessory. Also a battery, which is a failure point a steel bowl does not have.
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A 19.8 lb rectangular pit that burns wood or charcoal, driven by a USB-rechargeable fan rather than convection, with a grill grate included. It packs flat and travels. Buy it as a tool for camping and cooking, not as a backyard centerpiece.
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BioLite FirePit+
BioLiteThe only pit here that forces air with a fan instead of relying on convection, and the only one that is a competent charcoal grill in the same object.
The only pit here that forces air with a fan instead of relying on convection, and the only one that is a competent charcoal grill in the same object.
- Forced air lets you dial the burn up or down, which no convection pit can do
- Genuinely packs flat, so it travels in a way a 20 in bowl does not
- The grill grate is part of the design rather than an accessory
- A battery and a fan are two failure points a steel bowl does not have
- Rectangular mesh sides throw heat forward and back, not evenly in a circle
- Bluetooth control is iOS-only per the listing
Campers, tailgaters and anyone who wants one object to be both the fire and the grill.
You want a backyard centerpiece. This is a tool, and it looks and behaves like one.
We have not burned this unit. These are the things a specification sheet cannot answer, listed rather than glossed over.
- Battery longevity over several seasons
- How much of the smoke reduction depends on the fan being charged
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Forced air is the whole design
Every other smokeless pit on this site works by convection: holes in a double wall preheat secondary air and feed it back over the fire, and how well that works depends on the fire building enough draw on its own. The FirePit+ does not wait for that. A fan pushes air through the fuel bed, which means the burn is something you set rather than something you coax.
The practical consequence is control. You can turn a fire up when it is sulking and down when it is roaring, which no passive pit lets you do. It also means the smoke-reduction behavior is tied to the fan running — which is the honest caveat, because a flat battery turns it back into an ordinary open fire. How smokeless pits work, and what they do not do.
A battery and a fan are two failure points a bowl does not have
This is the trade, and it is worth stating plainly rather than burying. A Solo Stove is a welded stainless object with nothing to break. The FirePit+ has an electronic component, a rechargeable cell and a charging port, all living outdoors near a fire. Every one of those is something that can stop working in a way sheet steel cannot.
How long the battery lasts across several seasons is not published and we have no basis to estimate it. The listing states up to 30 hours of fan run time on a charge, which is a manufacturer maximum rather than a measured figure, and says nothing about capacity after three years. Treat the electronics as the part with a finite life.
The grill case is genuinely different
Most fire pits treat cooking as an accessory: a grate you buy separately and suspend over flames. Here the grill grate ships in the box, the pit takes charcoal as a first-class fuel, and the fan gives you the airflow control that charcoal cooking actually wants. That combination makes it a competent grill, not a fire pit with a grate on top.
If cooking is the main event, the comparison worth making is against the Breeo, which cooks by conduction off a solid rim rather than over a grate. They are different techniques and neither is a substitute for the other. Cooking over a fire pit, by format.
Rectangular, and what that changes
The mesh sides throw heat forward and back rather than evenly in a circle. For a cookout or a bench along one side that is fine and arguably better. For a ring of chairs around a fire it is not what you want, and it is the clearest reason this is a camping and cooking object rather than a patio centerpiece.
What we could not establish
Two things. Battery longevity over several seasons, which nobody publishes for any product in this category. And how much of the smoke reduction depends on the fan being charged versus the pit's own geometry — BioLite does not separate the two, and without a test method we are not going to guess at a split.
The listing also notes that Bluetooth control is iOS-only. That is a stated limitation rather than a discovered one, and it matters only if you want the app; the physical controls do not depend on it.
Alternatives
- [Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0](/smokeless-fire-pits/solo-stove-bonfire-2-0) — passive, circular, nothing electronic to fail, no grill in the box.
- [Breeo X Series 24](/smokeless-fire-pits/breeo-x24) — the other serious cooking pit, by conduction off a solid rim rather than over a grate.
- Fireside Outdoor Pop-Up Pit — if packing flat is the only thing that matters. The camping roundup.
- Every dimension, weight and run-time figure is quoted from the manufacturer listing and cited on the spec sheet above.
- Fan run time is the manufacturer's stated maximum, not a measured result.
- What we did not do: light it, cook on it, or test the battery over a season.
We have not burned any of these units, and we do not claim to have. The full method, including what it cannot tell you.