Does the mouth of a chimenea classify it as a cooking device?
Chimineas are primarily sold as cooking devices to be legal for use in your backyard. Since most areas do not allow open burning, a chiminea is designed to fit into a category much like a grill or BBQ. Although there are products on the market that have mesh wraparounds or multi holes. These products are a safety concern and should be treated more as a fire pit or open burning item. A mesh screen or multi opening fireplace has many safety concerns regarding the possibility of a sudden gust of wind blowing embers into dry grass, deck, or a neighbors property. The reality of having an open fire has caused open fire burning to be banned in most areas and you need to check local regulations before using a mesh wraparoung or multi hole fireplace. Without local burning regulations everyone would buy a fire pit instead or just lay out a ring of rocks. The number of openings of a chiminea is limited therefore by safety concerns. The opening of a chimenea can be adjusted in direction to where a
