Answer:
Light me up in backyard gatherings
In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast or iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?
You throw me out when you use me and take me in when you are done. What am I?
You seek me out when your hunger's ripe. I sit on four legs and smoke a pipe.
Angels and pilots work with me.
Break me and I am better immediately set and harder to be broken again.