Well, kinda...

See, we've been talking about getting one of those fire pits for our patio as we love to hang out outside and sometimes it can get a bit chilly at night. But they tend to be on the pricey side so with everything else we have going we've held off. Well, the other week HD had some gardening/outdoor stuff on clearance and lo and behold they had a really nice propane-fueled fire pit for sale for 1/3 of the original price. Score!

So today we had the family over for crawdads and BBQ (yum!). Hubby decided to go ahead and assemble the pit since crawdads are an outside activity. Well, the pit is designed to double as a coffee table so it's this nice, big, flat rectangle with the heat source in the middle. It's a propane flame with a cast iron grill. Sure, they meant the grill to hold the lava rocks but it looked like just the perfect cooking spot. So we boiled the crawdads there. Nice big stock pot (a cheapy one not my expensive one) fit nicely and did a great job. Bonus is that there was no stink in the house at all.

It's a little low but I can see us doing many a clam bake, crab boil, crawdad boil, etc. on it. Shoot, I think I may even try my cast iron skillet on it. I'd been hesitant to use our grill for this because the surface is just not very steady.