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When this thread first came up I wanted to page one of our resident firefighters. I had misremembered his handle so searching wasn&#;t finding him. Let&#;s try again now that I&#;m remembering correctly: Hey @KCB615, do you have any professional words of wisdom on this topic?
Thanks for the invite, @LSLGuy !
As to the OP, I&#;m not a fan of fire blankets. You need to get too close to the fire to use it, and you lose visibility of the fire while you&#;re deploying it. It also only works if you can cover the stuff that&#;s burning, so if the cabinets above the stove are on fire you&#;re out of luck. There also a decent chance of knocking a pan of burning stuff off of the stove as you try to put a blanket on it. That takes the fire from one square foot to 10 square feet, and it&#;s surrounding you.
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That said, I&#;m not a huge fan of fire extinguishers in untrained hands, either. I&#;ve taught hundreds of adults over the years how to use a fire extinguisher. Most of the time we used dry chemical extinguishers (as that&#;s what they&#;d be using in the real world, and I had dozens and dozens of them to use for training). The same things were noticed by pretty near everyone who used a dry chemical extinguisher: wow, this stuff tastes terrible (super ammonia taste and smell), and I can&#;t see what I&#;m doing with the cloud it makes. We did all of our training outdoors where the wind clears the cloud away quickly; discharge a dry chemical extinguisher in your kitchen and you&#;ll be horrified at the lack of visibility and the sudden absence of breathable air for the next 3 minutes.
Extinguisher use by trained hands is better, obviously, but exactly what constitutes &#;trained&#; is another question. Used an extinguisher once in a class in a parking lot 14 years ago, while cow-orkers laughed and giggled? Sorry, that&#;s not trained. Discharge an extinguisher every 6 months on a live fire? Ok, you have my attention. The latter is very rare to find, even amongst firefighters. There is a benefit of an extinguisher over a blanket - you have a chance of at least knocking down fire beyond the pan of origin.
So since I&#;ve pooh-poohed the fire blankets and extinguishers, what is a home chef to do with a cooking fire? Use the lid for the pan you&#;re cooking with. I always, without fail, have a lid next to the stove if I&#;m cooking something that can ignite. My 15 year old daughter does the same, as her OCD father insisted. See the fire, put the lid on the pan, and turn the burner off. Then wait. Don&#;t touch it, let it sit. If you disturb the pan or the lid opens up you have a chance for reignition. If the flames touched the cabinets or the microwave above the stove, call 911 and invite some new friends with funny hats over to see your recipie fail. You may need their help anyways to clear smoke (you&#;d be amazed at the all-permeating stench of a cooking mishap).
Lid first, then dry chem. Leave the blanket on the bed or couch.
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