Anyone using Campfire in a Can - Facts & Opinions from users

Have a fire dancer. Look good when they are sitting there not being used. Fire in an a can just looks like..a......a can sitting there.

We use ours all the time. So many parks do not allow fires these days. But most allow the propane ones.

Our biggest dilemma is weather to leave it in the MH. our bring it into our semi inclosed porch to enjoy.

Fire as mentioned in a wash machine tub is the very best when fires are allowed.

Pogoil.

Looks like Campfire in a Can is having a kickstarter campaign for a new product. The original didn't call my name, but I'm considering this convertible propane/charcoal/wood version. :)

Kickstarter: Campfire in a Can 2-in-1 Campfire

(Not sure if links like this are allowed - I would assume so? But, I'm not affiliated with CiaC; I just googled it based on this thread and am a kickstarter junkie and noticed the link.)

I used my Campfire in a can at a big dog show in Palm Springs. Had 8 poeple sitting around it. It put out enough heat to kill the chill and everybody was impressed with how nice it worked, no smoke so 360 deg usable seating. It will not put out the vast heat of the wash tub and wood, but it is cleaner and easier to put away. You can use it on a plastic matt or carpet. If it gets too cold for it I'll just go inside and sit in front of the electric fireplace and watch a movie.

Dannyabear1 wrote:
Wood campfires do not have to smoke. Get a drum out of an old washing machine, cut off the tube in the middle of it. Put it on 3 brickd to keep it off of the ground. You won't believe the fire and heat it will produce because of the airflow the hundreds of holes provide. It may smoke until the wood gets going then it goes straight up because of the air drafting. Most fires smoke because they are built on the ground or trying to burn wet wood.

We were just over at our friends house (Florida) and an evening. It was cool outside, around 60, so they asked if we wanted to sit around a fire. He had just completed his "washer tub" campfire pit. He found a old washing machine that had a stainless steel drum. He took the drum out and mounted it on three stainless legs he fabricated. It gave off great heat!

It would be extremely hard to actually haul it around to camp though. Pretty large.

I'll sell you mine for half the price of Amazon. I liked it but never use it anymore.

beemerphile1 wrote:
We have the 'Little Red Campfire' and like it. Similar to 'Campfire in a Can' but a lot less $$.

Same here...

We bought one of these.

The 4th of July was drizzly so we pulled it under the awning, and enjoyed sitting outside at a campground.

We don't go to campgrounds often, we mainly boondock, so fire bans are something we have to consider. This works great for that situation too.

This is a "Fire Dancer" propane unit and it works well when you can't have an actual fire in your campsite.. As in this pic... This State Park does not have fire rings in the sites, because of how close the sites are to each other...

But, you can have propane fires.. :)



Works great and puts off a good amount of heat too.

Mitch

I think the Fire Dancer has a great fire appearance but I didn't want any LPG unit that had vermiculite. That stuff can make a mess if it spills. Little Red only uses logs, no vermiculite.

At a festival last fall we used Little Red for the first time. It was cold and we even had snow and hail. We put Little Red under our EZup type canopy and used three wind walls. It did a good job of warming the area under the canopy.

Another great advantage is we could light it for instant heat or turn it off when we wanted to walk through the festival again. A wood campfire takes an hour or so to get some coals and a good fire going and you can't just turn it off when done.