Onlyfire 19-Inch Outdoor Propane Fire Pit Review

A grill-parts company builds a fire pit

Onlyfire made its name selling replacement burners, igniters, and grates for practically every grill brand, and that background shapes this fire pit: unglamorous, sensibly built, and priced like a company that competes on hardware rather than marketing. The 19-inch bowl, 58,000 BTU ring burner, and included lava rock check every box that defines this category.

What you don't get is a headline feature. No push-button igniter like the Flame King, no famous-name kit like the Outland Deluxe, no grill grate like the Hykolity. The Onlyfire's feature is its price tier.

Performance where it counts

Flame quality lands mid-pack — better spread than budget jets thanks to the full lava rock layer, a touch less full than the Outland's presentation. Heat for a close circle of chairs is indistinguishable from the rest of the 58,000 BTU class, and the propane fundamentals hold: no smoke, no embers, deck-safe with a mat, and generally permitted during burn bans where wood fires aren't.

The 4.3-star average across roughly thirteen hundred ratings is quietly reassuring. This isn't a pit people rave about; it's a pit people simply keep using, and the complaint rate on regulators and burners — the usual budget failure points — stays low.

How to decide against the alternatives

The buying logic is straightforward: check where the Onlyfire sits against the Flame King on the day you're ordering. If the Flame King is close, its self-igniter wins. If the Onlyfire is meaningfully cheaper, it's the best value in the class that week. Against the Outland, you're deciding whether flame aesthetics and a decade of track record justify the premium.

Our full best portable propane fire pit roundup walks through that decision tree across all seven models we ranked.

Living with it

Standard 20 lb tank, included hose and regulator, low-twenties weight — transport and setup match everything else here. Add a cover, because one isn't included and bowl finishes on every pit in this class age faster when left uncovered.

Bottom line

The Onlyfire 19-inch is what value looks like without an asterisk: nothing missing that matters, nothing added that markets. Buy it on price, enjoy it exactly as much as the pits that cost more.

What owner reviews reveal

Owner reviews of the Onlyfire read differently from most value-tier fire pits — shorter, calmer, and largely free of the regulator-and-rust horror stories that haunt the bottom of this category. The recurring positive in the reviews is simple satisfaction with the flame and heat for the money; the recurring negative is the manual lighting ritual on windy evenings, which is exactly the gap the Flame King's igniter fills.

It's worth noting what a 4.3-star average means at this scale: across thirteen hundred ratings, the score is earned by consistency rather than enthusiasm. Nobody's writing love letters to their Onlyfire — they're just quietly using it every weekend, which for a value pick is the entire job description.

Setup and first burn

Assembly amounts to attaching the regulator hose, spreading the included lava rock evenly over the burner ring, and connecting a filled 20 lb tank. Give the rock a burn-in session of twenty minutes or so on the first evening — new lava rock can pop faintly as residual moisture escapes, which is normal and stops quickly. From the second session onward, the routine is the same as any pit in this class: valve open, flame lit, evening underway in under a minute.