Fire on the stove...Wish I could attach the video. This is an email that I got today. It conjures

Marg CDN

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up some general concerns I shared with my husband this weekend, when a pot of duck fat was boiling all over my stovetop. He's a guy who panics and would have thrown water on it. Yikes!

Read below before watching the video......>

> This is so important ... I never heard of doing the

wet towel thing...

> But I will remember it after seeing this.

> Kitchen Fire Safety - Good reminder for everyone.....

> This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short)

about how to deal With a common kitchen fire ... Oil in a frying pan. Please

read the following introduction and then watch the show ... It's a real

eye-opener!!

>

> At the Fire Fighting Training school they would

demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor

would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz cup at the end of a 10 foot pole

toss water onto the grease fire. The results got the attention of the

students.

> The water, being heavier than the oil, sinks to the

bottom where it instantly becomes superheated. The explosive force of the

steam blows the burning oil up and out. On the open field, it became a

thirty foot high fireball that resembled a nuclear blast.

> Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fire ball Hits

the ceiling and fills the entire room.

> Also, do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire.

One cup creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite.

> This is a powerful message----watch the video and

don't forget what you see. Tell your whole family about this video. Or

better yet, send this to them.

http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/Marg%20Cdn/?action=view&current=AKitchenOilFire.flv

 
I'd never heard of the towel trick either...but learned about extinguisher use - - >

in a food service class. Once must discharge the extinguisher in a sweeping motion at the BASE of the fire...otherwise a similar thing happens, and the fire is blown all over the place! In our case, it was a parking lot, and yes...someone, tho not me, did precisely that!

 
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