COOZOOMPortable Table Top Fire Pit: 10 x 8.6 in Stainless Steel Mini Outdoor Stove with Stand, Low Smoke Burning Tabletop Firepit Fueled by Pellets or Wood, for Urban & Suburbs Outside Camping

I opted for this over the mesa XL because it was a bit larger, and about half the price while still offering multiple colors. My one complaint is that the rivets that hold the ash pan together simply melted away during the first use. This is an easy fix for some, but a deal breaker for others. Maybe this wouldn’t happen with a wood chunk fire instead of pellets, but it gave me the impression that the product was never really tested by the manufacturer. Even with the repaired ash pan, it’s a tight fit and never seems to lift straight up, so you end up having to shake some ashes out of the bottom holes anyway. You can’t simply dump ashes out of the top. There is a gap for air between the inside and outside so tipping it upside-down just sends the ashes into this gap. It’s not a big deal, but the ash pan design could be better. It is a little slow to get the top-down pellet fire going. Mine takes about 30 minutes from initial lighting to fully involved secondary burn. Once it is established however, it is a really clean and consistent fire for over an hour. At this point there are no longer orange flames coming out the top, but plenty of blue flames within the pit. I think I could still roast a marshmallow (over embers) 3 hours after lighting it when full of pellets. Wood pieces are much faster, but also require more involvement, which can be fun. It just depends on what you're going for. If you want a short duration fire, or want to tend your fire, adding a few pieces of wood here and there to it to keep it going, then opt for wood. If you want a longer lasting fire with little involvement, use pellets. I enjoy that it can accommodate both. Here are some notes I have learned after the first few uses. It is smoke-less, not smoke proof. If you add a big scoop of pellets to an existing fire this thing will emit a prolific amount of smoke. If you blow on it, you get smoke. If you don’t use enough fire starter, you get smoke. Even when burning perfectly, if you put this in your house, it would fill with smoke. (Don't try it.) The airflow design of this is good engineering, not magic. Don’t let this discourage you, I’m just trying to manage expectations. When your fire is burning well, watching the “secondary burn” provided by the airflow out of those top holes is pretty magical, but don’t expect it to compensate for a poor fire, or entirely eliminate smoke from the fire experience. If using pellets, don’t skimp on the fire starter. The first time, I tried using a half piece thinking a small fire with a material meant to be burned would require a smaller amount to start, but I was wrong. Blowing on the fire will send smoke out the bottom holes. It’s not a useless gesture, but it doesn’t exactly work like starting a normal campfire. I can’t speak for hours of tending to wood pieces, but under normal conditions with pellets, your clothes won’t smell like a campfire after using this. My metal table underneath gets hot when the fire gets low. I personally would be careful on a bare wooden surface like a picnic table. It may be fine but keep an eye on it. I’m getting a ceramic tile for mine to live on. I’m also getting a metal bucket to put over it when I’m done to protect it from the weather. I have too many other things in life to worry about than bringing in the fire pit after use like the instructions recommend. I saw a YouTube video where someone used a tomato cage and dollar store pizza pan to make a heat diffuser for this thing and feel extraordinarily grateful towards this person's existence in the universe. Not only did this seem to help radiate more heat, but it perfectly warmed some pizza rolls better than a microwave or even oven. I am looking forward to many mornings and evenings with this fire pit close by, or even just as a conversation piece out the window on the patio table during cold family gatherings. I remove one star for the rivet failure, however if you don’t know what a rivet is, or lack the tools, knowledge, or motivation to make a simple but annoying repair to a new product, I would recommend you look elsewhere.

The media could not be loaded.  It is a great firepit for being cheaper than the solo stove. Like some other reviews have stated the rivets holding the Ash pan together are cheap and will pop with in 15 minutes of the first use. I used some self tapping screws in place of the rivets and haven't had any issues since. Also once you get a good burn in it the ash pan becomes a very tight fit and hard to get out for cleaning. Sounds like a lot of bad things but honestly for the price overall I'm really happy with it. I used pellets and wood both burned well and fairly smokeless. I prefer how well the pellets burned but it works great for both.

I received one, and it arrived with one of the three feet loose in the bag the fire pit ships in. I took a careful look at the issue, and it appears the feet are spot welded onto the base plate in three places with a form of pinch electro-welding process. This joint failed before arriving at my door. Thinking it might be a one off issue, I requested and received a replacement.The replacement had all three feet on the base, but as I unfolded the third foot, it popped off the base, leaving me looking at a similar failure point. The took fire pits looked identical at this point. It is my opinion that the spring inside the collapsing foot, is stronger than that mechanical bonding between the foundation plate and the feet.You need airflow coming in from underneath in order for the Fire Pit to breathe as designed and work as intended. I ended up using a conveniently sized rock to replace the now-missing foot for my tests.The edges of the insert ring were mostly free of burrs, and the fire pit put out a nice amount of heat and fire sounds, but it wasn’t much for providing ambient light. There was almost no smoke. I found a fire started fairly easily with twigs and small pieces of wood. I expect the fire pit to work even better with wood pellets, but I didn’t have any.I also tried to use the Fire Pit with the feet retracted, flush against the ground and found it didn’t have the drawn needed to easily start a fire, and even after I did get a fire going, it stayed small and was less than sastisfatory.

Small enough to bring with me, able to get close for warmth in a cold night and kept my firewood usage down. Once the fire got going, there was hardly any visible smoke at all. When it was cooled off, it was easy to clean, very impressive. I had been wanting one for some time now, glad I was able to get it and use it for 2 nights in the woods hand have it be what I expected.

Couldn't decide so bought both.COOZOOM wins for size but I plan to use it on the floor not a table top. The build quality is better on the Solo but only slightly, doesn't really warrant double the cost. The pull down legs on the COOZOOM are a bit flimsy. Not sure they will hold up over time but you don't really need them. Nylon carry bags are same same.I'm keeping the COOZOOM. If Solo ever decides to come out with one this size I will definitely consider purchasing .... maybe a Mesa XXL.

The media could not be loaded.  Well color me impressed. Great little table top smokeless fire pit. Burning split dry seasoned oak cut to length. Burns hot and clean very little smoke or wood smell once burning intensely. As others reviews have indicated the rivets holding the ash collection pan together do melt away after first descent fire. No big deal, replaced with stainless steel sheet metal screws looks better anyway! Everything else is well engineered with nice finish. Throws out plenty of heat for the size. Good job Coozoom!

Worked like it was supposed to, until then end. Once the fire was out and cold I pulled the ring of the ash catcher and 3 of the 4 rivets holding it in place had melted. This is a selling point of this item and it failed. Maybe I got a dud as they sent a replacement. Time will tell

very good product

None of the legs were attached when I opened the carry case. Not expecting much with this now. Fit and finish seem OK though.