Hey, thanks for your support Bill. You were our very first online order!!
If anyone has questions about our Zutto propane adapter for the Takibi fire pit, I'd be happy to answer them. This, by the way, is our very first post on this forum. I've been trying to find out where the little traffic we receive comes from and finally found this thread. I can't seem to find the rules for this section however, so please let me know if this post violates anything and I'd happily edit or remove it.
We built our first adapter last year after missing our Takibi during the burn fire season. Jennifer was wondering about making a propane adapter for the grill and my brain just OCD'd it. Then some people noticed and wanted their own so we started making them in our garage in Portland, OR for a few friends. Now we're
selling them online. They are similar to the
model shared a few posts earlier, though with a bigger burner and what would seem to be a simpler assembly process. Our goal was to make something that'd be easy to assemble (no tools, not seal tape needed, quick connect fittings, takes less than a minute to put together), fits in the original Takibi bag, doesn't require Takibi modifications, that we can still cook on (using pans) and delivers a punch. This is what we ended up with:
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The burner is a 92K BTU burner with a propane air mixer that can create a flame much larger than anyone would ever need.
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And everything fits in the original bag (hose and air mixer valve fit in the mesh pocket on the side of the bag).
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We sell those on our
website for $240 with a canvas bag of lava rocks or $220 without (we do recommend using lava rocks though for flame dispersion and heat retention). Shipping is $20 and $15 depending on rocks.
"Zutto" by the way, translates to "all the time" in Japanese. And Takibi Zutto would translate to bonfire forever, pretty appropriate we think. Anyhow, people seem to like it, we certainly have been loving ours even outside of wood burn ban season. Now, there's no replacing a good wood fire of course, but being able to instantly fire up and turn off the grill has come in handy more than once, especially on road trips where you might not want to lug around a bunch of firewood.