Kitchen-grade fire extinguishers cost less than $10-- I bought one 2 months ago at Home Deput upon realizing that, despite being fairly sure I had one somewhere in my place I had no idear where it was, and hence a fat lot of good it would do me when I experienced a fire. Don't put it right over your stove-- that's where the fire will be. Put it close by.
I have had a stovetop fire before (accidently turned on a burner under a heavy-plastic cutting-board), and I managed using the extending faucet-head from the kitchen sink, a handy large pot-lid and a box of kosher salt. (The baking soda was a fairly spectacular disappointment.) The potlid covered the burner which had plastic fused to it, while the rest put out the burning board.
Well, if you don't throw water on the grease, water can be used to cool things down, like the lid you throw over the grease, or the base of whatever's full of burning grease.
Also, it occurred to me that a spatterguard should do a dandy job of containing a greasefire. For whatever reason, the flame won't on through a screen, (until the screen becomes saturated with the flaming grease, I guess) and for the most part, neither will the grease. Use it in concert with water, and you've got something almost worth trying. But seriously, a lid and a box of salt are your friends. Plus a $9 fire extinguisher.
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Date: 2006-04-07 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-07 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-08 09:04 pm (UTC)I have had a stovetop fire before (accidently turned on a burner under a heavy-plastic cutting-board), and I managed using the extending faucet-head from the kitchen sink, a handy large pot-lid and a box of kosher salt. (The baking soda was a fairly spectacular disappointment.) The potlid covered the burner which had plastic fused to it, while the rest put out the burning board.
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Date: 2006-04-08 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 06:59 pm (UTC)Also, it occurred to me that a spatterguard should do a dandy job of containing a greasefire. For whatever reason, the flame won't on through a screen, (until the screen becomes saturated with the flaming grease, I guess) and for the most part, neither will the grease. Use it in concert with water, and you've got something almost worth trying. But seriously, a lid and a box of salt are your friends. Plus a $9 fire extinguisher.