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


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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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