On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, PENMART01 wrote:

> > (Darrell Grainger)
>
> >My parents were pretty cool with letting me try stuff on the stove. I'd
> >seen my three sister make pretty much every mistake you can think of.
> >Learning from their mistakes made it easy for me to get my parent's trust;
> >the time I stopped my third sister from throwing water on a grease fire
> >because I saw what happened when my first sister did that pretty much
> >showed my dad I knew how to cook with gas. Always keep a full jar of
> >flour or baking soda around. 8^)
>
> Baking soda is fine for smothering small grease fires but tossing flour
> on any fire is extremely dangerous... dincha know there is no smoking
> and open flame permitted at flour mills... the dust can ignite and
> explode. Best thing to do about a grease fire in a pan is to plop the
> lid on...

True to a certain extent. The dust is explosive. If you are goint to use
flour to put out a grease fire you want to be sure there is enough to
completely drown the fire in one shot.

Thinking about it, keep a fire extinguisher around. When I first started
cooking it was rare to find a fire extinguish you could buy for the home.
Today you can buy one for $10. Just make sure it can handle all the
circumstances (A, B and C type fires).

> for grease fires in ovens (very likely when baking bacon) is
> to quickly shut the oven door and turn off the oven... copious
> quantities of hot grease in an oven can ignite quite violently when the
> oven door is opened and a rush of cold oxygen rich air rushes in...
> never ever do bacon in a closed oven... if you're so pinheaded that your
> insist, use the stove's broiler but be sure to leave the door cracked
> and never ever leave th ekitchen while broiling... more people than you
> can imagine burn down their house from broiling with the oven door
> closed and walking away for two minutes to pee..

Good advice for anything involving a flame... candles, fire in the hearth,
broiling, etc.

> and we all know what a two minute pee turns into for a female.

Same thing as a two minute pee for a male?

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