American Fyre Designs 48" Chat Fire Bowl Gas Fire Pit

One centerpiece that carries the patio day and night: table by afternoon, fire after dark. Quick Facts • Heating Capacity: Designed for ambiance, not as a heat source. • Viewing Area: Open on all sides—the fire is visible from every seat. • Fuel: Natural gas or propane. • Controls: Battery spark ignition with adjustable flame height; smartphone control with USB charging optional. • Fan: None Who It’s For Outside is where everyone wants to be until the evening cools, and then the gathering drifts indoors one person at a time. A fire fixes that—but most fire pits sit in the middle of the patio doing nothing all day. You need a fire feature that earns its footprint even when it isn’t lit . If you want a low, wide fire people can circle chairs around at night and set drinks on the rest of the time, the 48″ Chat Fire Bowl is the one to look at. What Makes It Special The included cover is the whole idea. It’s cast from the same handcrafted concrete as the bowl—built to sit outside year-round—and it drops in level with the rim , so between fires you have a four-foot table instead of an open bowl collecting leaves. Run it on propane and the tank rides in a slide-out drawer in the base —no tank sitting beside the fire, no draping a cover over it. Pull the drawer, swap the tank, push it shut. Plumb it for natural gas and the tank question disappears entirely. The optional FyreStarter upgrade lets you run the flame from your phone—on, off, high, low—and adds two USB ports so phones charge where the people are. Possible Downsides • An open fire bowl is ambiance and gathered-around warmth, not a heater for a space. • The propane drawer takes a horizontal 20 lb tank, sold separately —a standard upright barbecue tank won’t work in the drawer. • Smartphone control requires 120V power at the bowl; without an outlet nearby, plan on the standard push-button ignition. If you want the patio to have one piece that works day and night—table by afternoon, fire after dark—the 48″ Chat Fire Bowl is the right decision. The patio becomes the room the house lives in, long after the sun goes down. It comes in seven hand-applied concrete finishes—White Aspen, Café Blanco, Black Lava, Smoke, Travertine, Dark Basalt, and Light Basalt—and the fire dresses in your choice of glass, gems, creekstones, river rock, lava, spheres, or log sets, with a fitted vinyl cover available for the off-season.

Manuals & Spec Sheets

Documentation for this model is available in the showroom.