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Tabletop fire pits like this are dangerous and cannot be used safely. Don't use them if your vacation rental has one. Throw them away if you have one at home.

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Someone else in the thread commented that the fire can be hard to see once it burns low, making it easy to add fuel when you shouldn't bcz you think the fire is out when it isn't. Not sure how "don't buy this" benefits tRump - not like the video is recommending a different brand he controls 🤷‍♂️

Working for the CPSB must be like working for UL: more fun than should be legal. UL: This got sent in for safety testing, will it survive the tests? CPSB: This is dangerous, what's the most dramatic way we can film how dangerous this is? Mythbusters: We remember when WE did cool explosions...

For this style of fire pit, the only way to refuel it is to pour the fuel into the bowl where the fire was just burning. If you pour fuel in before the flame is fully out (which you can't always tell with rubbing alcohol) it can cause flame jetting.

Ok, now I'm baffled that anyone thinks that's a good idea to use or sell for that matter. I made that same thing with bath and body works spray and acetone when I was a teenager and almost burned the house down. What's wrong with a camping stove?

As long as you don't use it indoors. Camping stoves can produce carbon monoxide. (This can vary by model, so to be save, assume your camping stove is "outdoor use only" until you confirm from the operator's manual that it is safe for indoor use.

Alright. As you're a government agency; can we assume that any domestic models will be forcefully pulled off the market and any foreign-made models will no longer be able to be imported?

Is there I kind of tabletop fire pit that isn’t dangerous? You’re always specifying “like this” or stuff that implies it’s only a specific subset of tabletop fire pits that are bad. What if I just, like, build a tiny bonfire on my table?

I did build a fire in a cooking pot once. We were backpacking, and discovered when we got to our first camp site that neither our water filter nor our camp stove actually worked, and we couldn’t just build a campfire cause California. If we’d had a table, we probably would’ve put it there 🤷‍♀️

In my defense, I was like 20 at the time, and also we needed a way to make the stream water safe to drink. And it turned out fine, apart from destroying my dad’s camping pot. Which I didn’t feel too bad about since I’d wanted to test the stove before we left and he’d told me not to.