Practice good fire safety habits.
Recipe for Safer Cooking: Follow these tips to protect you and your family when in the kitchen. Whether stirring up a quick dinner or creating a masterpiece four-course meal, here’s a recipe for safer cooking you need to use daily. Read more…
How to put out a grease fire in a pan on the stove
The safest way to put out a grease fire is to smother it. Use a pan lid, a cookie sheet, or another larger pan to cover the flames to smother them. Use a fire extinguisher if you have one close by. Never use water, baking soda or salt to extinguish a grease fire – it can make the fire much worse!
Never throw water onto an oil or grease fire. The water is heavier than the oil and instantly sinks to the bottom of the pan where it gets superheated and instantly turns to steam. The steam escapes by exploding up and out, carrying flaming oil with it! In a demonstration in an open field with a deep fat fryer and 8 ounces of water, an instructor would don a fire suit and use a 10 foot pole to dump 8 ounces of water into the fryer of oil. The resulting explosion become a thirty foot high fireball that resembled a nuclear blast (we all know what that mushroom cloud looks like). In a kitchen, the fire hits the ceiling and fills the entire room.
Also, do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. one cup of either creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite!
The outbreak of an uncontrolled fire is a danger that threatens not only valuable property, but also human lives. Read more about preventing home fires….