So yeah there's a reason they tell you not to pour water on an oil fire

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Poor old Geordie's array...
If pouring a spoonful of water into a pan of hot oil is anything to go by, it would be REALLY bad if you threw a pan on something already on fire.

*orders new oven hood* :facepalm:
 
tiger roach said:
:grin:

Hope you still have your eyebrows etc. intact...
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Yeah I'm fine but it's lucky it was just a spoonful, the thing went up BIG - it's burnt all of the wiring in the hood - and it was going off good 50 or so cm flames for 20 seconds, if it had lasted any longer I'd have started getting worried. I'm a bit gung ho in the kitchen and it could just as easily have been a full glass or jug or whatever I'd poured in without thinking.

My own stupid fault, I didn't think it would be a problem putting it in a pan with hot oil, wrong answer.
 
afraid you'll have to be demoted for this

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comes with a free Play Doh icing extruder too!
 
On the upside, it turns out that the smoke alarm I thought I'd broken whilst trying to disable it for my NYE party works just fine :grin:
 
Buy a bulk bag of baking soda to throw on grease fires. Much less messy than water or extinguishers. Costco sells twelve pound bags for under $20.
 
I've actually had to go through an actual grease fire in a kitchen. That was a nasty mess. Had to crawl under the grills which were totally consumed to turn off the gas, then used a giant potato masher's butt end to smash and turn on the ANSUL system. It was a three day cleanup. That cook who started it was a dumb ass.
 
Glad it wasn't any worse, and that you're ok. As Lerxst posted, those things can get totally out of hand super fast.
 
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