The 17” Play Tent Fire Pit Grate is a classic way to start a fire. Industries 17” Play Tent Fire Pit Grate makes it easy to lean kindling or firewood in a tepee-shaped cone. This creates a small area core of heat at the bottom. When you start kindling in the bottom, it will get to the wood around it and as the wood burns and falls into the middle the "core of heat", maintains the hot wood embers. Made of welded high-grade steel bar and electrostatically finished with high heat, weather-resistant black paint.