OuterStone Fire Pit Cooking Set + Propane Tank Cover - Rectangular

What you're actually buying

At this price, you're not buying a fire pit. You're buying a permanent outdoor room anchor — something that justifies the investment precisely because it refuses to be just one thing. Outer's OuterStone Rectangular is engineered to function as a propane fire pit, a flat-surface coffee table (when the flame is off), and a cooking grill, all without asking you to swap parts or compromise the look of your patio. That triple mandate is either exactly what your outdoor space needs or completely unnecessary, depending on how you entertain.

The "harder-than-stone" framing refers to Outer's proprietary concrete-alternative surface material. We can't speak to long-term durability since this is a premium product that hasn't been on the market long enough for a decade's worth of wear data, but the material is designed to resist cracking, staining, and the thermal shock that splits traditional concrete fire pits over time.

The propane tank cover: genuinely worth calling out

Every gas fire pit has the same ugly secret: the propane tank. Usually it lives in a cabinet underneath, visible through a slatted door, or worse — crouching next to the unit in a green cylinder everyone tries to ignore. Outer's cover is part of the package here, and it matters. The tank disappears. The whole assembly reads as furniture, not equipment. If you've ever tried to style a patio around a naked propane tank, you understand why this is not a small thing.

Cooking on a fire pit: honest expectations

The cooking set is a genuine add-on, not an afterthought, but we'd temper expectations: grilling on a propane fire pit is casual cooking territory. Think skewers, vegetables, a cast-iron pan — not a dinner-party grill situation. It's more about the experience of cooking over a flame outdoors than replacing your dedicated gas grill. If you already have a grill and want a fire pit that can handle light cooking on occasion, this works well. If you're hoping to retire your grill, keep the grill.

The coffee table mode

When the fire is off and the surface is cool, the rectangular top functions as a coffee table around which you arrange outdoor seating. The rectangular shape is deliberate: it plays better with sectionals and L-shaped seating configurations than a round fire pit, and it creates a more intentional furniture grouping. Outer sizes these to pair with their own outdoor seating, so if you're already in their ecosystem, the proportions are dialed in.

The price, honestly addressed

$6,325 is a serious commitment, and we won't dress it up. This is a product for a specific buyer: someone finishing a permanent outdoor living space, not someone furnishing a starter patio. You can buy a perfectly functional propane fire pit for $300. You're paying the premium here for material quality, the 3-in-1 design, the tank concealment, Outer's weatherproofing engineering, and frankly the aesthetic — the OuterStone looks like it was designed by someone who cared, not sourced from a catalog. Whether that delta is worth it depends entirely on how seriously you take your outdoor space.