Getting Started on Building an In-Ground Fire Pit: Advice From a Masonry Pro: Doug Montzka, of Montkza Concrete & Masonry in ...

This is rarely the case when building a fire with logs in a dedicated fire pit, and impossible if you use a gas fire pit.

Change that logic by lighting up a Swedish torch. This traditional fire building technique calls for stacking wood vertically inside your pit. It burns from the top down and from the center outwards.