I just dealt with a grease fire yesterday and ended up with 2nd degree burns down my leg. didn't have anything to put it out with and I live in an apartment building so I picked the pan up and walked it out the door. once I got it outside is where it sloshed and went down my leg. sucks but it's worth it compared to 8 families losing everything.
Thanks for sharing your experience. We usually don't cook with oil, but after reading your comment, I put something by our range to put fires out with. I hope your burns heal quickly.
You could've used your shower towel. I know at the moment its hard to think straight and people usually panic but this happened to me today and thankfully there was a dish towel in the kitchen. After i started to think what else I could've possibly used if that had not been there and then I thought about my shower towel.
So American schools don't teach this to kids? I learned this before I could read, but that's probably because I live in Belgium and we deep-fry tons of fries and every household has a fryer so chances of a grease fire a much higher.
I live in the usa and I am in my thirties and I just found out about this that you shouldn't try to put out a cooking fire with water. Either something is wrong with me, or something is wrong with my society and my education if I didn't learn this until now. Endless TV and movies, endless talking and chit chat, and no where along the way did I pick up the info that putting water on a grease fire is a horrible idea. Amazing. If I had ever saw a grease fire in a kitchen the first thing I would have done would be to get a lot of water and throw it on the fire. But that can cause a huge fireball? Absolutely incredible that I'm just finding out about this now.
Im 15 years old today I was using a frying pan to make fried food and it caught on fire because im stupid and put the fire on High and the grease caught on fire and i panicked and poured a shit ton of water on it at first it rose very high but luckly after like 5 times i extinguished it, mainly because there was not as much oil but now i know better to never ever do that again this was one of the most horrifying experiences and i believe that this is something kids should know at a young age because i never knew until i was 15. i thought i was going to die and lose everything and burn down my house while my family was away. Because every child is taught to extinguish fire with water. that water can overpower fire. i mean shit, i learned that from pokemon
for as long as I remember my parents have been telling me not to put water on grease fires, remember this in ten years so your kids don't learn the hard way
I only knew about grease fires a few years ago. While I was taught about fire safety in school, it was just the basics that involved: House fires from items, Forest fires from camps, Don't touch candles ... etc. We were 'never' taught about the reaction of cooking grease and flames. And since we are ingrained with "water stops fire"; it is the first thing panicking people jump to. It's not stupidity it is simply a lack of knowledge.
Had a grease fire recently too but had the knowledge to COVER it. Stayed calm and covered it and it was out in moments. No damage, no burns, no spread! Everything A-Ok! Covering grease fires saves lives and homes
Omg! Freaked the hell out a couple minutes ago! Was making bacon and it was on medium heat the oil or grease of the bacpn started jumping and I was gonna put the pan away because it kept spilling and holy crap! Saw the stove on that center where the pan was caught on fire I got very scared and didn't know what to do I thought of putting a dry thick cabinet cloth cleaner but immediately turned off the heat and waited thought of water bit something told me to wait so I listened to my instincts for once! And thank you Lord it went down on it's own but I will totally be scared to male bacon again hahah or taking precaution on buying a fire extinguisher for emergency purposes
As a 39 year career fire captain, people often asked me what size extinguisher they should have. I tell them if it’s too big to carry, then it’s too big. Don’t buy a puny extinguisher and expect big results.
I just had a grease fire this morning (thanksgiving day) I panicked for several seconds but I knew not to use water and grabbed the flour to put out the fire. It worked but because I panicked for several seconds the flames reached the exhaust cover on top of the stove and burned through up through the cabinet above my stove. Not only that it caused an electrical problem where my outlets in my kitchen no longer work and now my refrigerator is off because the outlet that’s it’s plugged into doesn’t work. Worst Thanksgiving for me so far. Oh and I purchased a 6 lbs of prime rib to make for thanksgiving and now I had to give it away because my refrigerator is unusable. 😫😫
For future reference, flour doesn’t always work…try using Baking Soda next time. You probably know that already, but it’s a good thing to remember later.
I work for a company that cleans the Behavioral Health Resources housing, and there was a cooking oil fire at one of them last week. How it happened was a resident put a pot of oil on the stove in the commons to heat it up and completely forgot about it. The oil eventually boiled over, hit the hot burner, shot up to the cabinets next to it, and, the building was heavily damaged. Thankfully, the resident got out safely. This incident could have turned out much worse than it did, and it was 100% preventable. Simple things like setting a timer, watching the oil closely, keeping the oil at a low temperature setting, keeping a fire extinguisher in an easily accessible location below your stovetop, reviewing how to use the said fire extinguisher, and keeping a non-flammable item, such as a lid, cookie sheet, or scillicone mitts nearby in case the oil flames up. Taking these simple measures can prevent a simple accident from turning into a tragity. And yes, I have actually put out an oil fire. One day, in my college chemistry class, we were doing an experiment that required molten parrafin. Before we started the experiment, my professor went over this specific protocol for extinguishing an oil fire. I got mine too hot, and all of a sudden, big flames shot up from it. I immediately slipped on a scillicone mitt and slid it over the beaker the paraffin was in and held it firmly in place until the fire was out, then turned the hot plate off, leaving the paraffin on the hot plate to minimize the risk of the beaker cracking, spilling the hot paraffin. It certainly was scary, but because I followed this protocol, nobody got hurt, and the fire did not spread.
Yea it’s in my recommendations. Second you can take your pan on fire turn it upside down in the sink and then turn the water on. By using cold water and cooling off the bottom side of any pan it will cool off the other side of the pan. This also works for anything burning or that was sizzling and you don’t want it to be a mess.
actually you can have class F fire extinguisher for fat fire. alternatively u can use a fire blanket to smother the fire which can be bought in safety shop.
I was cooking cod under the grill, something I've done many times. But this time grease must have jumped off it or something. I came back into the kitchen and the top half of the oven was just orange, filled with flames. Because I've never been in that situation before, I panicked, overpanicked I guess. So I immediately called 911, by the time I was finishing the call....the flame was gone xD Now I know that MOST grill fires go out by themselves, but how was I meant to know that it wasnt gonna spread. Im glad I knew not to throw water on it though, could have been a lot worse.
I actually spilled oil on my stove and it formed a flame, but I turned off the stove right away and hosed it down with water and nothing happened. I am not sure why that worked for me but I did it instinctively without thinking. I guess I was lucky.
I feel bad that I never paid attention to this. It’s like one of those things that are common sense but at the same time when no one educates you and it happens on the spot it’s so dangerous
Embarrassingly this happened to me, it was in my back yard though, about 3 1/2 feet from my wall. I was frying fish on my webber, obviously i didn't let the coals burn down enough, my skillet covered the whole grill's surface so i couldn't extinguish the coals, so i ran straight for the water hose..the flame had already reached a good 4 feet, literally engulfing the wall and adding the water just made it double in size for a few seconds before it was fully tamed and out.
I am a former distributor of purple k extinguishing agent I no longer sell product but based on available data it seems purple k is the best agent for home grease fires in a demo it take about 6 oz or less of purple k to put out a grease fire I recommed a 5lb purple k unit rated at least 20 B:C
Stove top fire stops are semi worthless. They do not trigger effectively. Get a "Tundra" or "FireAde" extinguisher. They are foam extinguishers, and will cool and smother the fire.
I almost burnt our house down by having a candle lit and kept adding candy and random small objects in it the candle was small but I tried to make the flame stop bc blowing on it made it worse and wat make matters worst it was right beside my outlit and my lamp I got water to put it out no no it make it worse a huge flame came and everything in it was going crazy I hit the candle down and the wax put the fire out I'm very lucky I got my hand burnt 1st degree burn by the flame that got bigger not too bad I'm never doing that again
Just had a grease fire yesterday full deep fryer of oil I ran it outside flames were hitting me and whole house was foggy but I didn't get burnt I let it sit outside for a min then threw a lid on top
I'm glad you are okay, but always stay calm and leave the burning pan/grease on the stove. Do like you did yesterday; put a metal lid on it or a cookie sheet. Per the video, you gave it more oxygen by moving it. If you had dropped it, .... I don't want to imagine.
@@freeman2399 guess which dumbass 10yr old failed at cooking, started a fire, soaked it in the sink, never got a burn and got yelled at That’s right me
@@misskobeyoshi2500 the reason why they tell you NOT to use water on class F/K fire is because they know what happens when the water is used to tackle that fire.
Just now I had a grease fire I threw the pot out the window my family rushed out and we hosed all but the pan lol I burned my hands really badly but I consider myself a hero lol saved 7 people
Buy a abc fire extinguisher. Much easier to clean up fine powder than redo most of your house, clean out all the smoke damage, replace all your smoke damaged chlothes and furniture
actually as long as you are only worried about grease in a pan and not other ordinary comubsitbles its better to have a baking soda or purplek type fire extinguisher in your kitchen as it shoud be easier to clean up than abc and less likey to cause major property damage !!!!
Every parent should have a grease fire discussion with their kids. They don't teach them this stuff and then send them off to their first jobs in fast food with a bunch of other kids who don't know better and when there's a grease fire their first instinct will be to try to put it out with water and then it's too late. Please teach your kids!!!
probably not, fire expands rapidly so you would need to get on it quick... at a point it becomes more than you can handle. All about catching it before it gets there
My mother panicked when her dutch oven oil caught fire and she was reaching for water. I still have vivid memories of what could have happened if I hadn't stopped her so I could put a lid on it and sprinkled a box of table salt on the burning dutch oven. So many people through logic out the window in event of a fire.
OMG I am 13 and at September 5 there was a fire in our house and there wasn't charged in our phone to call 911 so my mom told us to go ask our neighbors for help and my mom stayed inside and she put water in fire but still the fire got higher and it stop we were so sacred my mom omost die but she didn't
rdomholt depends what it is, Sodium bicarbonate maybe, though they say chemical, so could be something else. If it is Sodium Bicarbonate, which I recommend all houses should stock up on (aluminium free of course) then perhaps it won't be an adequate amount and most fires will just be reduced, and not extinguished. But to realise fires more accurately look up the 'fire triangle' in goggle, or home owner hazard advice. Different fires need different materials to extinguish them.
rdomholt Only certain extinguishers are suitable for chemical fires; plus the pressure from the extinguisher is likely to spray flaming oil all over the place.
+Rivandeyra ok, than why don't they say not to use a fire extinguisher, because that's the first thing that comes to mind. nobody thought to cover this topic??
thats not correct flour can explode or spread fire you should have used baking soda or potassium bicarbonate its debated if salt will work but I think it would have been better than water!
I was sleeping and our maid was banging the door it was 6am we thought it was nothing we opened it she was screaming cos the stove was on fire from the back we moved the stove it made it worse as the fire exploded it was the gas canister which exploded we called our dad he tried to throw a bucket of water on it exploded and he collapsed to the floor we are in somali it happened 30 minutes ago the army base right next to us heard the screaming they helped us to put the fire out by putting damp sand on the fire it somehow stopped the aftermath was melted tiles and burnt stove and a ruined kitchen
Don't leave cooking unattended. Don't fill the pan more than a third full of oil. And if it catches fire, then just turn off the heat, leave the kitchen, closing the door behind you, get everyone together and get out. Let the fire department deal with the fire.
jeesh really people are stupid enough to try and put out a greasefire with water? only in america do they spend huge amounts on anti drug propaganda and nothing on basic education & fire safety. how to properly put out a grease fire is something we learn when we're about 8 years old, and it gets mentioned on multiple episodes of kid tv shows ...
That's so rude of you. Not everyone knows how to take out fires. Rather than calling people stupid, thank the creators and publishers of this video. Share the video and encourage others to educate themselves about keeping safe during a kitchen fire.
Nyxia Noire i'm mainly amazed people aren't thought this in school etc. over here this even gets mentioned on most children's tv shows. this is supposed to be basic knowledge like don't touch live wires or don't put a metal fork in a toaster ...
