Once upon a time I was in the market for another smokeless fire pit. I already had an early solo stove from rei that I loved everything about except the cleaning part. It did not have a removable lower grate so I had to carry it out and dump it out.So the search began and I started searching the internet for reviews wanting to improve on the cleanup aspect. I came across the tiki smokeless stove and it has an ash tray clean out and looked nice. When I came to Amazon I searched that stove I found this very similar unit at a much cheaper price.I wrestled with buying it as it had decent reviews but finally pulled the trigger after a couple steel reserves I found hiding in my fridge.A few day later I’m looking out my window every five minutes hoping the fedex truck will come flying down the driveway so I can assess my Amazon purchase. Once the delivery man arrives I try to act chill like it’s no big deal he’s there but me running into the driveway before he sets the brake and fogging up his window because I’m 2” off the glass and breathing heavvvy might of given me away.I carry my newly acquired stove to the gazebo to see how fast I can assemble it without instructions. I open the box so excited only to be met with mild disappointment.The top of the black ring had a nice scratch across it. And the construction was less than thrilling. From the warped spots in the top where they welded in the fasteners on the heat shield to the three little spot welds holding the fire tub sidewall together I was disappointed in the product as it was only 80 bucks less than a new generation solo stove. Once I got over the disappointment I decided that despite the scratch and warped top I had it so might as well use it and if preformed well and cleaned easy I would just live with it.So if fired it up and was not really impressed with its performance. It started good but once I started getting ash it was plugging the lower holes and it started smoking pretty bad. I poked stirred and was able to get it to clear up but it definitely seemed more finicky than my other stove. So I let the fire die and everything cool off and said well at least cleanup should be easy…. Well I was wrong on that as well. The holes to the ash tray were too small so even with lot of stirring and brushing the ash would not clear into the tray. I finally resorted to picking it up and dumping it out like my original stove, but that didn’t even help as it go most of it out but due to the fixed top ring a bunch of ash gets caught on the lip and will not dump out. So at this point I decided that I needed to return the unit as the savings was not worth the sacrifice of the overall product. So I started my Amazon return which was pretty simple and loading the stove into the back and drove to my closest ups store about 30miles away, I loaded it up into the red wagon I had with me and dropped the stove at the ups store.Overall I will give it three stars as it is a fire pit that’s on the lower price point for what your buying but I feel it is still a lot to spend for a middle of the road product. After dropping this off I bought a new generation solo bonfire at Costco for 340 bucks and the fit and finish is in a class of its own and they address the cleaning issue. So I definitely regret buying this from Amazon as returning is alway a bugger, I wanted to love this stove but I couldn’t get past its issues.