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42" Propane Fire Pit Table, 50,000 BTU
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42" Propane Fire Pit Table, 50,000 BTU

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$389.99
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Fifty thousand BTU is a lot of gas for a 42-inch table, and the practical consequence is fuel: a 20 lb cylinder at full output is a few long evenings, not a season. The knob exists to be turned down, and most of the time a fire pit table runs at a third of its capacity for the look alone. What the figure does deliver is a flame that stays lit and keeps producing heat when the evening turns windy, which is where the wind guard earns its place.

Output
50,000 BTU
Size
42 in rectangular table
Set
Fire pit plus 20 lb tank table
Included
Wind guard, lava rocks, cover

How it lives in the room

Put the tank table downwind

The second piece of this set is a side table that hides a 20 lb cylinder, and where it goes is a decision rather than a styling choice. Downwind of the burner and within reach of the hose, with its door facing out so the valve can be shut without moving furniture first. The cylinder must not sit under the fire pit itself, however neatly the two heights line up.

Spread the lava rock thin

Lava rock diffuses the flame and shields the burner, and the instinct is to pile it in until the burner disappears. Too deep and the gas finds channels: tall flames in two places and nothing in between. A single layer that just covers the ports, raked level, gives the even flame pattern that the wind guard was designed around and keeps the ignition reliable.

Then cover it the same night

A fire pit table fails at the burner, and water is what does it. The supplied cover goes on once the metal is cool to the touch, which on a 50,000 BTU unit is a good hour after shutdown rather than ten minutes. Leaving it off for one rainy night is how the ports clog and the ignition starts needing three attempts.

Before you order

It runs on propane or natural gas, and the conversion is not a knob setting: the two fuels need different orifices and a plumbed line in a fixed position. Decide which fuel the table is for before choosing where on the patio it lives.