Charlottesquare wrote:Mike4 wrote:I'd forgotten about chip pan fires! ISTR seeing adverts on telly as a child by the Fire Brigade, warning of the dangers of chip pan fires and what to do if you had one. Specifically, don't throw water on it was the message that penetrated my impressionable young brain at the time...
A damp but wrung out tea towel to starve it of oxygen I think was the prescribed control though we had various fire extinguishers in our house including a powder one.
Wandering way off topic now, but about eight years ago I had occasion to use a £10 metre-square fire blanket in anger, after the grillpan caught fire and the kitchen filled up with smoke and foot-long tongues of blue and yellow flame. (Horizontal, naturally, and at groin height.)
) So, having once had the experience, I would never want to work in a kitchen without one.The first two seconds of the crisis were "oh my god" territory; the next three seconds were "yes, this really is a big enough emergency to merit using the blanket"; the next five seconds were spent in pulling the ribbons and hoping it would unfurl correctly (it did); and another five seconds on stuffing the blanket into the grill.
The fire was out in eight seconds flat. The steaks were still edible, although they were more medium than medium rare. The fire blanket was ruined, but I didn't have any complaints.
Best tenner I ever spent.BJ
- not the ones that they put out on the public websites. I imagine there were some heated words exchanged about the culprit? 
