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An annual problem I have every summer is dealing with smoky campfires when camping. Your bog standard cicle-of-rocks or metal ring fire pit is crazy inefficient, and unless you run continuously in the offgassing phase (bright, tall orange flames, as the wood gas burns off), with lots of convection, you inevitably produce a ton of smoke. This is terrible for all folks, but my asthma-prone lungs get especially cranky. So you either have to continuously feed wood (inefficient and costly), or play the game of shuffling upwind constantly.
I usually end up tinkering and modifying the fire pit to try to eek some better air flow patterns, but it's usually a lost cause with open pit fires.
I might just cave and get one of those stainless inserts, but what I'd really like is something flatpack that I could assemble into a more efficient burner. I've seen small ones [1] that slot together to make a rocket stove, but nothing campfire sized.
I wonder how much demand there would be for such a thing. Seems like there are several products for general "firepit" designs, but without a chimney, these suffer from most of the same problems as open pits. [2][3]
Edit: oh, maybe a "tent stove" is what I'm looking for.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Marsh-Kettles-Flat-Rocket-Stove/dp/B0...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Flat-pack-firepit-grill-carry/dp/B086...
[3] https://www.etsy.com/listing/799723294/flatpack-firepit-port...