Designed of solid cast aluminum with heavy steel burning and cooking grates, the Casita chiminea has a oven hidden behind the sunburst face. Opening the sunface access door reveals a grilling/baking area for easy campfire cooking (for your creative pyros out there, it is used as an oven, not a second fire box).
The Casita functions as a great outdoor drafting fireplace, like all Blue Rooster clean burning chiminea firepits. But when the hunger creeps up it’s time for something to eat, the oven is already hot. Our family actually keeps a chiminea shopping list that includes sweet potatoes, corn on the cob (still in the husk), brats, s’mores kit, and meatballs. Yep, meatballs on a stick. Frozen meatballs toasted over a fire and dipped in marinara, your truly living “the good life”.
Most of our munchy list can be made in other chimineas with a little ingenuity and tinfoil. But where the Casita really shines is with a Dutch oven or a pizza stone for wood fired pizza. Buy a bunch of small pans and hold a pizza party! Preparing dough in advance, or using soft shell tortillas, guests can create culinary masterpieces. No kitchen mess, just burn your paper plates along with napkins, grab another beverage and enjoy the evening fire.
When used for cooking we recommend using a 12″-14″ pizza pan or 2 to 3 personal pizza pans, Dutch ovens, fresh baked bread tins, baked dishes, tv dinners, the options are endless. Made for use on your deck or patio, this substantial chiminea/oven combination will provide a lifetime of worry-free use.
The Casita fireplace we designed over 20 years ago. A smaller version knock off is being sold occasionally online by an unscrupulous company. When they say, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” they really mean “We are not intelligent or creative, so we will just steal your idea”.
The original Casita Chiminea is only available from The Blue Rooster Company.