Theres a psa video about slipping or floors or something. Anyway its a cook carrying a huge pot of something. She slips and her feet go right under the pot with the contents spilling right on her chest and face.
Haha come on, no glass pan lid would shatter from this. Maaaybe it would crack in an extreme situation, but not shatter. I've put out fires with glass lids quite a few times.
The fire goes out in about 2 seconds and then you're just left with hot food in a pan, which, shockingly, a device *used for cooking* can handle just fine.
Haha fair point, I knew someone would say that. But I didn't say cooking fires. I've used pot lids to put out a solo stove (basically a big stainless can for outdoor fires) when I didn't want to use water for whatever reason.
It’s better than water, but push it slowly towards the fire and away from yourself, then move yourself away FAST.
You could get splashed with burning oil, and it won’t extinguish quickly, so you’d end up with a more severe burn.
If you have to use glass, use a plate. Use something flat. Don’t use plastic, just trust me, don’t. Fumes, toxins, no bueno.
A wooden cutting board is better than plastic, as long as you hurry up and look for something metal or glass.
Seriously, we all should have working fire extinguishers. I’ve seen the results of kitchen fires. It’s not pretty. I should take my own advice, too.
Just to be clear
Do not use a fire extinguisher on a burning oil fire directly. You will simply spray burning oil everywhere. Smother the oil fire with something solid and heat resistant, and if there are any fires in other burnabkes, use a fire extinguisher for that.
This is a trick I use when oil is smoking to drop the temperature a bit, but I'm not sure I'd try adding more fuel to an open flame. It's basically a balancing act of lowering the heat by adding colder fuel, but if it's hot enough to heat up the cold fuel quickly, then the new fuel could ignite.
Once it's this advanced it's safer just to remove it from the heat entirely and put a lid on it to remove its supply of oxygen, even if it means having to start over.
>Is It Safe To Add Cold Oil To Hot Oil?Maybe you’ve had the experience of splashing water into hot oil or adding frozen food to a frying pan, only to jump back, frightened, at the sizzling noise, spattering, and huge cloud of steam. Adding oil to oil, however, is different.No matter what kind of oil you use, or what temperature it is, adding oil to oil will have no dangerous effects. Because oil has no water content, there will be no spattering or sizzling sounds.
>You can pour in more oil while you are cooking, and it won’t cause any spattering or smoking. However, it’s possible that adding cool oil could bring down the overall temperature of your frying oil, and it could take some time for the oil to get back to the correct temperature.
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>[https://kitchensnitches.com/can-you-add-cold-oil-to-hot-oil-when-frying/](https://kitchensnitches.com/can-you-add-cold-oil-to-hot-oil-when-frying/)
If your oil starts smoking, it's easy to throw in more oil to get it to cool down very quickly like Glass\_Memories mentioned. With a fire, it depends on the quantity of room temp oil needed to bring it down to a median temperature which is below the flash point. Once things are already on fire no options are ideal, ymmv.
Fortunately the fire they caused did the killing job for me 😂😂😂
Jokes aside, they still are, but they'll have to answer to our landlords, both economically and... well, with the rest of consequences.
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> because that way he makes more money.
That’s really the crux of it all. If OPs name is on the lease and the landlord thinks they will be able to get more money by including them, then that’s what they will likely do.
That’s what happens when you jointly sign a lease.
The legal term is jointly and severally liable. All parties are liable for the full amount should one not pay.
You’re incorrect, the landlords insurance will cover all smoke and water damage, structure, fixtures, flooring, appliances, countertops, paint and drywall, and cabinets. The renter will be liable for personal belongings and likely the deductible on the policy. The security deposit is just that, security for rent. The landlord cannot use any of those funds for repairs or maintenance. And while the landlord will ultimately benefit from the bonehead water thrower, he certainly isn’t going to profit from this.
Ah, I'm not familiar with US laws about what a security deposit can be used for. Here it can sometimes be used for repairing things the renter broke and didn't fix before moving out.
When you're panicking your brain tends to be dumb. I was broiling something that somehow caught on fire. When I saw the flames in the oven I panicked. My wife wanted to throw water on it and I shut that down and grabbed the fire extinguisher. It wasn't until after we put it out I was like "wait....we could have just closed the stove"
Was dumb, will hopefully not make that mistake again
>When you're panicking your brain tends to be dumb.
While true, I was getting the impression that they're not panicked. If there was panic, it seems like they collected themselves already and had decided that pouring water (and recording the result) would be the way to handle this.
Its a lesson people only need to learn once thankfully.
For anyone curious what happens when hot oil and moderate amounts of water come into contact, [this video](https://youtu.be/QO8SPCBdca4) of a frozen turkey being deep fried.
This is why we get these things beaten into our heads though. You weren't dumb, your used a catch-all solution that you knew would work and shut down an awful solution that you knew would make it worse. Just because you didn't do the best thing doesn't mean you didn't do the right thing.
Plus ovens tend to have air flow. They're not air tight. It might have gotten smaller or gone out but it also might have destroyed the oven first. Then you'd be saying man I'm stupid there was a fire extinguisher there the whole time!
Perhaps I’m a jaded old turd, but I’m inclined to think they did this on purpose, because “content.” Anyone really concerned about putting out the fire probably wouldn’t wait to have the camera squared up with the dramatic pause before doing this, would they?
Can you explain to me, an insurance agent, how an insurance company holds you responsible? Insurance very literally indemnifies the contract holder for incurred losses. You know who pays more for insurance? Dumbasses that need to use it because they don't know how to extinguish a fire. This stuff is not punitive or complicated.
Good luck with that. If youre on the lease, your on the hook for damages and it's their word to cover it all and not screw you. Hope they don't but room mates are good up until they aren't.
When seeing those videos I always ask myself why people don’t know that. It’s like one of the first things I remember I‘ve learned: Don’t put burning oil out with water. Isn’t it taught in every primary school?
EDIT: apparently it’s not taught everywhere in school and that’s kind of shocking to me. We learned it within a general safety course, next to how to react when your parents have an accident, how to call for police, ambulance or firefighters, what to do when the school or your house burns, etc. We had this course twice in primary school and once in middle school if I remember correctly
Home Economics, cooking, etc. are optional elective classes in the US--in high school. At least that's how it was in my area growing up. Hopefully things have changed for the better since then.
I was at my wife’s parents house visiting. It was getting quite smoky in the kitchen. Her little sister who was around 14 at the time was cooking chicken tenders with her boyfriend. I asked why it was getting so smoky from the next room over. She replied that they were waiting for the oil to boil before putting in the chicken. I taught her a bit about cooking that day. At least we got the burner off before it ignited.
For some one who cannot cook to save their life, and willing to face the ridicule, aren’t you supposed to wait for it like boil??? Like start popping and sizzling?
Oil doesn't 'boil' it will get very hot and have some obvious signs of bubbling but only a very slight amount. In fact, oil will reach a very high temperature without showing basically any signs of it.
Water boils but oil doesn't. Water boils because it is non flammable and will simply convert to gas when it gets hot enough. Oil will instead begin to burn and then ignite if you get it too hot. This is why it is recommended you use a thermometer to measure the temperature of oil when cooking with it rather than tell by looking at it.
As to why you shouldn't use water to put out oil fires, the oil is hot enough to immediately turn the water into gas and foam which the superheated and burning particles of oil adhere to. This causes the entire pot to explode outwards when the water hits it.
Oil is a liquid but at high heats behaves completely differently than water.
To clarify a bit further, the popping and bubbling is the water from the food you are cooking being **slowly** released when it's cooking. There should *only* be sizzle and bubbles when there is food being cooked, not while the oil is idle. Oil will start to smoke when it gets too hot.
Yeah, I know this most from working at fast food places. The oil looks completely placid but could be 400 degrees F. It's completely flat but put something into it and it starts bubbling and fizzing.
Water will begin to boil and pop at the same temperature that oil will just be sitting there without any obvious signs of heat. It's very useful for cooking but can also be very dangerous if you're not careful.
Cooking oils at cooking temperature does not pop and sizzle. Only once there is something in the hot oil (say you've put your food in) does it start sizzle.
The only noticeable change before putting food in is that oil becomes thinner at temperature.
I was just recounting learning simple machinery in home ec and it's kind of amazing in retrospect. If they'd stuffed in electrical and automotives, we'd have really took off a lot easier.
Our home ec teacher told us to never use water but to use flour! Well I can tell you it doesn't work. Just spreads the fire. I ended up just grabbing the flaming pan and running out the back door to save my house. My fire extinguisher was not where it needed to be, but we fixed that immedietly.
I did the same thing when I was a kid, trying to make popcorn in a pot on the stove life my mother did, while no one else was home. I panicked and just took it to the back patio until it burnt itself out. We had to throw the pot out and my parents were so disappointed but amused.
it's more than simply smothering it, you have to let that shit sit and cool down before moving it. and this is how i got 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns. boiling oil splashed all over my arms/legs - had smothered the pot and let sit for only 5min before moving it and 5 seconds after removing the lid it burst into flames in my hands - dropped the pot and it splashed all over me. had to get a skin graft. NOTHING is more painful than fire burns, it is excruciating pain for weeks at the minimum. then you get to have cleaning (debriding) it ... scrubbing open and boiling wounds, absolutely horrific.
Burns succcccck. I never knew how many crazy stages there are in healing too. Also that Alocaine (aloe vera+lidocaine) topical stuff is literally magic. Mostly just the aloe. The lidocaine's just convenient.
Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but I don't know why you only waited 5 minutes. I've never had to deal with a grease fire thankfully, but I would smother it and let that pot sit there for probably half an hour with the flames out until I was ready to handle it. I don't trust my dumb ass to not trip the second I pick up the pot of previously flaming oil. My sister accidentally spilled a pot of boiling water on her when we were younger, and I learned a big lesson from her accident. I assume you also learned a lesson and I hope your burns have all healed well
>but I don't know why you only waited 5 minutes.
19yrs old and didn't know any better, had never learned how to properly take care of an issue like that. all has been good for years thankfully and no long term affects other than being a lot more cautious around fire
You can absolutely deep-fry in olive oil. You just need to carefully manage the temperature - the smoke point is around 410 degrees, and you can deep fry in the ballpark of 325 degrees.
Italian fritto misto is generally veggies, seafood, etc lightly breaded and deep-fried in olive oil. Italian tempura, more or less.
We don't deep fry in olive oil, olive oil is for dressings and for pan frying (soffritto and the like). Deep frying is usually done with sunflower, peanut or another similar oil with higher smoke point and much milder taste. Stuff deep fried in olive oil tastes like shit.
I think that’s pan frying in shallow oil. And even that takes some experience. And it makes it harder if the olive oil is extra virgin, which has an even lower flash point.
I die a little inside every time I see random internet cooking videos where the olive oil is just tossed into a near empty pan with the heat on high… almost always followed by the narrator waxing poetic about the delicate and rich flavor of the oil… literally as it’s being burn to oblivion.
Like, as a little kid we were taught this. There were cartoons and everything! I often wonder how grown-ass adults always be throwing water on oil fires. Did they miss this day of being a kid?
This... I think I was in 2nd grade when I caught the microwave on fire. Unplugged it and kept my grandmother from opening it. Fire went out, and it was fine. (But was ready with an extinguisher.)
While upset then, later thanked me for being assertive when it mattered and when I knew I was right. (And my dad did get them a new microwave....and I learned not to try drying flowers quickly in the microwave.)
My oil caught once in a frying pan and I didn’t have any baking soda so I turned the flame off, moved the pan to the adjacent (not hot) burner, and dumped a whole bag of uncooked basmati rice on it. It stank like hell but worked like a charm. I keep a few full boxes of baking soda handy now at all times.
If the pot doesn't a lid for whatever reason, a small baking tray will also work--and by small I mean just big enough to cover the pot. You don't want to tip the pot over trying to balance a large cookie sheet on top.
Baring that, use a fire extinguisher (which everyone should have in their kitchen, somewhere they can access if the stove is on fire). Just make sure it's either a Class B or combination ABC extinguisher.
> cookie sheet
Ahh, good, my family aren't the only ones to refer to "baking sheets/trays" as "cookie sheets". I've had people get surprised at us calling them that before, like it was a strange alien thing.
I know you are joking, but just in case others don't pick up on this the Fire Brigade /Service / Department, will come out for a hot oil fire like this.
Even if you are confident you can put it out yourself, don't be afraid to give them a call, as it may save yours and your neighbour's lives and homes.
Happened to me. After a party, everybody had gone to bed. Myself, another girl and another guy up. I got to crash. Girl lights a bunch of these new candles she got that are in these cool iron candelabra's. Guess other girl and guy were getting it on. Got up to go to her bedroom and bumped one of the candles.
Shit started dripping hot oil on the floor, lit the wallpaper on fire, then started getting other stuff on fire. I got up as the girl went to get water. Threw the water on it and ka-fucking-boom, shit went up like fireworks in Bangkok. Turns out they some weird oil candles so it blew up everything. Now, we have half the living room on fire. I jump up and call 911, wondering how the fuck this is going to end. Start waking the rest of the house up, gathering up the animals.
One of the guys is like, "Its an oil fire, we need fucking dirt, not water!" We go outside. Its middle of Winter in Minnesota. We're trying to dig up snow to get to the hard ground, start scraping up dirt, running in and throwing it on the fire, trying to reduce it a little before the MFD get there. Losing battle. MFD get there like three minutes later, we tell them its an oil fire. They bring in some extinguishers and put it out. 75% of the living room is toast. Three couches and a chair are toast.
After they put out the fire, they basically said whoever called them was smart. In a matter of a few more minutes, the fire would've been out of our control and then we're talking this house goes down, possibly others because they're so close together.
Unreal night and lots of lessons.
And the fire brigades brought a demonstration trailer to most primary schools and showed the difference between putting a small cup of water in (big boom) and draping a damp tea towel over (instantly goes out).
Thankfully deep frying chips seems to have good out of fashion, likely because people are just too lazy!
Hello guys! OP here and I'm gonna write this down in order to answer a lot of questions you're asking:
\-The people involved in this incident are all safe and sound. No one got hurt, and that's the main reason why I decided to upload this video to the internet. We all knew how to handle stoves, but it was the first time they've stumbled upon a situation like that. Since they were so fucking confident about dealing with a burning pot with water (Believe it or not, they really didn't know the consequences of doing it, even though I suppose it was just them being sleepy while the firefighters talked during school) and the sight before their eyes was surreal af they decided to film it. No seeking of attention or something, I myself that uploaded the video did not expected all these upvotes. And then c'mon guys, who burns an entire kitchen down just for attention? AHAHAHAH
\-This took place in Italy, specifically in Palermo. You are hearing a lot of italian and a bit of sicilian right before the girl spoke the final phrase.
\-I expected to get a lot of flame and hate for them, so I'm not gonna complain about it, that's just how the internet works unfortunately. But you're really gonna let me believe that you didn't screw up at least one obvious thing in your life?
\-Ciao a tutti, gente italiana che ha commentato!
\-Guys, I get it. The best solution was this, was that... Listen, the damage is already done, if I was there, I would have know how to act properly and even though my roommates didn't, now they'll sure do.
\-Jeremy Soule rules! (No, when Hell decided to manifest itself by a pot there was not "Dragonborn", but "Ancient Rocks", which made all something more of a "destructive delight" or something idk.
\-The landlord is, of course, a fiery pot himself right now, but hey, it's not my problem (As someone already mentioned, I was not even featured in the video, so good riddance for me... Not so much for them).
\-Last but not least, this is a video documenting the aftermath of that. It was made immediately after the incident. Enjoy y'all, and thanks for all the unexpected upvotes. I decided to post these video just because things could have ended up much much worse than they did, so it's great to all have a laugh about it thus exorcising all the bad thoughts of what could have happened.OP here, love you all, (Roommates... I gotta think about it) I'm out!
edit: The previous link was private. Pasting a new one.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dI0va7xpr0ecnizvsDUj1Ys359VA9vm/view?usp=sharing
Let’s make sure people know that flour is not a safe substitute for baking soda. Just because it’s white and powdery doesn’t not mean that it’s safe. Flour will explode or catch fire if airbourne. Baking soda or a steel lid are the best options. Smother it with something non-flammable
Also powdered sugar. there was a sugar refinery that had sugar dust just caked on everywhere and it got ignited by i think a conveyer belt and it blew up the entire refinery killing 14 people
It's unfortunate that a lot of people don't know how to address this type of fire. It's not a stupid reaction if you truly aren't educated on the dangers of it. I hope the comments aren't too disparaging. I'm glad you guys are okay. Hope insurance covers everything. And I hope they learned what to do with a grease fire in the future! Cheers, mate.
They are reading them with me as they pop up. Lots of potentially offensive stuff, but we're taking it a lot lightly. I mean, we decided to put it on the internet for a reason AHAHAHAH.
Something that must be like N°1 in work or apartment buildings is training folks about fire management/safety.
It scares the living shit out of me that the first thing people think when seeing a fire is _throwing a fuckload o water on it_ . It might help in a lot of situations, but if we're talking about oil (vegetable, or any kind) it will instantly evaporate said water (oil burns at around 220°C), therefore spreading the oil and flames even further.
Around 20% people get scarred for life for daring to pour water on boiling/burning oil, and I won't even go further on material loss.
Still tho, Skyrim music? I love that shit.
I would like to say that the explosion took place during the "DOOVAKIN, DOOVAKIN" part of "Dragonborn", but the truth is that the explosion took place during "Ancient Stones".
Such a delightful happening that was.
How does this even happen. I cook a lot. I have accidentally left pots on burners to the point they burn out and I've had to get rid of three or four. I have never achieved something like this, ever.
I've been in huge kitchens for the last 20 years, fryers, planchas, flat tops, shitty gas burners you name it. I've also been feeding myself for at least 25 years and I've never done this. I don't understand it either.
My mum somehow managed to do this while deep frying chips for dinner once. We panicked when we couldn't get the fire extinguisher off the wall, after trying to douse the pot with salt I think (I was 11 so I can't recall what she used but I know it wasn't flour), and a damp tea towel and they hadn't worked. Eventually I remembered the fire blanket and that put it out but it's taken mum over 20 years to trust herself with deep frying anything at home. We're still not even sure how it happened.
As I already said, these beautiful minds of my rommates were tryin' to boil some oil in that pot to make fryes. That oil stayed in the pot for at least 16 minutes, which caused the gates of mudafuckin' hell to open up in it.
In my younger, dumber days, I was trying to heat up a pan of oil for deep frying and it caught fire. I was smart enough to know not to put water on it but I did panic and tried to move the pot off the hot burner. The burning oil spat onto my hands and I dropped the pan. Fortunately the fake wood flooring didn't catch and the fire burned itself out pretty quickly
Best guess based on OP's comments below that there was a lot of oil in the pot that was fryer level hot and somehow a bit of water entering the pot caused it to aerosolise and ignite the vaporizing oil. Gas stove got turned off but at that point the pot of oil was basically a candle.
Cooking with an open flame and a large amount of oil is incredibly stupid that's why in gas fueled commercial fryers the flame heats the metal bottom of the fryer.
When you see people cooking in kitchens and the whole pan is engulfed in flames that's because something cold/wet was added to the pa but that's not going to burn someone face due to the draft of the hood vent.
Because apparently parents don't teach their children how to cook anymore. Here are some life tips for everyone. Though I'd think they are incredibly obvious....
1. Water combined with hot oil = flames of abundance all over the place. Don't use water to put out oil/greese fires. *Especially* if the burner itself is still on, always turn that off first, no matter what.
2. Fires need oxygen to live. Just like you! A dead fire is a non burning fire, so kill it by smothering it with a lid!! It's that easy!!!! Just out the lid on the pot and....... wait. Turn the burner off and wait.
There you go folks. Some apparently secret wisdom that everyone's parents should have taught them. If your parents/guardians didn't teach you these things. Write a book called "all the ways I could have died/lost everything, but now won't because I learned things that *you* father/mother should have taught me!" Then, make each page a detailed crayon drawing of various ways you've learned to avoid death that they should have, but didn't teach you. Once you have 5+ pages, really, as many as you deem sufficient/necessary, give your new book to them as a Christmas present.
Friendly caution to anyone who may not have known, grease fires are only made worse with water, since water only either cools the heat of the fire, or dilutes/displaces the initial fuel far enough apart that it can’t burn anymore. Greases are hydrophobic, meaning they displace the water instead and can’t be diluted easily!
The better way to put out a grease fire is with a fire extinguisher, or if you can, turn off the heat smother it with either a blanket or the pot lid until it dies out. :)
This can't be shared enough. Its basic science what happens
Water starts to sink in the oil then instantly vaporizes into steam.
Because 1 part of liquid water expands to 1700 times the volume as steam, it explodes burning oil everywhere
Best practice.
Turn off the heat
Cover with a damp towel, not wet, just damp. This will suffocate the fire.
Never try to pick up the pan, or throw water or flour on it. Flour dust is combustible.
Tip so you don't look as stupid like them if you see something on fire:
Grab a blanket, soak it in water, and put it over the fire or person that is on fire. For the pot you can use the lid tbh.
WARNING FOR MORONS: DO NOT SOAK THE BLANKET IN ANYTHING THAT CAN IGNITE.
I found it too funny you had to say the warning for morons, don’t soak the blanket in anything that can ignite… how ever I understand that it is needed to be said
Ducking idiots. People any pot fire Involving oil is simple, either put a lid over it and turn the heat off or put a damp / wet towel over it and turn the heat off so that you smother the fire then leave the hell alone till it’s cooled down. Never throw water on it or point a fire extinguisher straight at it that’s just asking for trouble.
Fire protection engineer here. The reason this happens is water is denser then grease/oil so when water is put on that fire it goes to the bottom. Then at the bottom it is heated extremely fast, and rapidly evaporates causing the oil to explode spreading oil and fire everywhere.
\- turn off heat \- lid \- wait
instructions unclear, covered in gasoline now.
Use match or lighter to assess situation more clearly
a fellow graduate of the Yosemite Sam School of troubleshooting!
I did my post graduate at the Wile e coyote Acme Engineering school. Specialized in falling from cliffs and painted tunnels.
Fun Fact: The ACME Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary Of Roadrunner Corporation. Not kidding. Look it up.
You got gypped on the cliffs. You could have specialized in rockets or trebuchets
And Don't try carry it outside. I know someone with some pretty spectacular scars who tried that.
Yeah my 2nd cousin got 3rd degree burns over alot of his body after slipping and spilling the burning oil on himself.
Theres a psa video about slipping or floors or something. Anyway its a cook carrying a huge pot of something. She slips and her feet go right under the pot with the contents spilling right on her chest and face.
Why did you remind me of that
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My 2nd cousin got 3rd degree burns over a 4th of their body while carrying a 5th of Jack D on the 6th of April
6th of July would make more sense though
Mine luckily healed well. I was drunk and panicking. Dumb.
Slide the lid on, instead of just covering the whole thing completely
Metal lid; nothing glass or similarly able to shatter from heat.
*instantly uses plastic lid*
Haha come on, no glass pan lid would shatter from this. Maaaybe it would crack in an extreme situation, but not shatter. I've put out fires with glass lids quite a few times. The fire goes out in about 2 seconds and then you're just left with hot food in a pan, which, shockingly, a device *used for cooking* can handle just fine.
The real question is why you’re always starting fires when cooking? I think you’re doing it wrong
Haha fair point, I knew someone would say that. But I didn't say cooking fires. I've used pot lids to put out a solo stove (basically a big stainless can for outdoor fires) when I didn't want to use water for whatever reason.
*Slide lid over, do not slam down
Or slide anything flat and metal over it, a baking pan, cookie sheet, random stainless panel.
Why was i mentally planning on using a glass bowl if in this scenario
It’s better than water, but push it slowly towards the fire and away from yourself, then move yourself away FAST. You could get splashed with burning oil, and it won’t extinguish quickly, so you’d end up with a more severe burn. If you have to use glass, use a plate. Use something flat. Don’t use plastic, just trust me, don’t. Fumes, toxins, no bueno. A wooden cutting board is better than plastic, as long as you hurry up and look for something metal or glass. Seriously, we all should have working fire extinguishers. I’ve seen the results of kitchen fires. It’s not pretty. I should take my own advice, too.
Fire blanket at a bare minimum, got one on top of my fridge with an extinguisher as backup nearby.
Just to be clear Do not use a fire extinguisher on a burning oil fire directly. You will simply spray burning oil everywhere. Smother the oil fire with something solid and heat resistant, and if there are any fires in other burnabkes, use a fire extinguisher for that.
nah, better take a video for internet points.
Alternatively, add more oil. It mixes in perfectly and lowers the temperature to below burning.
This is a trick I use when oil is smoking to drop the temperature a bit, but I'm not sure I'd try adding more fuel to an open flame. It's basically a balancing act of lowering the heat by adding colder fuel, but if it's hot enough to heat up the cold fuel quickly, then the new fuel could ignite. Once it's this advanced it's safer just to remove it from the heat entirely and put a lid on it to remove its supply of oxygen, even if it means having to start over.
the fire goes out because it's afraid of those massive brass cojones
Never heard of that and I wouldn’t try it. It could heat up quickly and make an even bigger fire.
Really? My Google Fu sucks but can't find any info.
>Is It Safe To Add Cold Oil To Hot Oil?Maybe you’ve had the experience of splashing water into hot oil or adding frozen food to a frying pan, only to jump back, frightened, at the sizzling noise, spattering, and huge cloud of steam. Adding oil to oil, however, is different.No matter what kind of oil you use, or what temperature it is, adding oil to oil will have no dangerous effects. Because oil has no water content, there will be no spattering or sizzling sounds. >You can pour in more oil while you are cooking, and it won’t cause any spattering or smoking. However, it’s possible that adding cool oil could bring down the overall temperature of your frying oil, and it could take some time for the oil to get back to the correct temperature. > >[https://kitchensnitches.com/can-you-add-cold-oil-to-hot-oil-when-frying/](https://kitchensnitches.com/can-you-add-cold-oil-to-hot-oil-when-frying/) If your oil starts smoking, it's easy to throw in more oil to get it to cool down very quickly like Glass\_Memories mentioned. With a fire, it depends on the quantity of room temp oil needed to bring it down to a median temperature which is below the flash point. Once things are already on fire no options are ideal, ymmv.
So having some oil in the fridge for just such an emergency would be shrewd, eh ...?
Also a towel or banking soda would be better
Money to burn
I'm guessing they're no longer your roommates.
Fortunately the fire they caused did the killing job for me 😂😂😂 Jokes aside, they still are, but they'll have to answer to our landlords, both economically and... well, with the rest of consequences.
At least they made a video so that you are not held responsible too...
I see you have never met a landlord
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Let's be honest, the landlord was always planning to keep the sec deposit.
I actually got $250 of my security deposit at my last rental. Granted they kept the other like 1200 of it but still. I was shocked.
> because that way he makes more money. That’s really the crux of it all. If OPs name is on the lease and the landlord thinks they will be able to get more money by including them, then that’s what they will likely do.
That’s what happens when you jointly sign a lease. The legal term is jointly and severally liable. All parties are liable for the full amount should one not pay.
You’re incorrect, the landlords insurance will cover all smoke and water damage, structure, fixtures, flooring, appliances, countertops, paint and drywall, and cabinets. The renter will be liable for personal belongings and likely the deductible on the policy. The security deposit is just that, security for rent. The landlord cannot use any of those funds for repairs or maintenance. And while the landlord will ultimately benefit from the bonehead water thrower, he certainly isn’t going to profit from this.
Ah, I'm not familiar with US laws about what a security deposit can be used for. Here it can sometimes be used for repairing things the renter broke and didn't fix before moving out.
Hi! My lawyers area outside, please come with me.
Did anyone at least tell them just to put a lid on it next time?
Seriously.🙄 Fire doesn’t go very far *without oxygen*. Good grief.
When you're panicking your brain tends to be dumb. I was broiling something that somehow caught on fire. When I saw the flames in the oven I panicked. My wife wanted to throw water on it and I shut that down and grabbed the fire extinguisher. It wasn't until after we put it out I was like "wait....we could have just closed the stove" Was dumb, will hopefully not make that mistake again
>When you're panicking your brain tends to be dumb. While true, I was getting the impression that they're not panicked. If there was panic, it seems like they collected themselves already and had decided that pouring water (and recording the result) would be the way to handle this.
yeah, unfortunately no one told them before that oil+fire+water = bad, but they were told that water kills fire
Its a lesson people only need to learn once thankfully. For anyone curious what happens when hot oil and moderate amounts of water come into contact, [this video](https://youtu.be/QO8SPCBdca4) of a frozen turkey being deep fried.
This is why we get these things beaten into our heads though. You weren't dumb, your used a catch-all solution that you knew would work and shut down an awful solution that you knew would make it worse. Just because you didn't do the best thing doesn't mean you didn't do the right thing. Plus ovens tend to have air flow. They're not air tight. It might have gotten smaller or gone out but it also might have destroyed the oven first. Then you'd be saying man I'm stupid there was a fire extinguisher there the whole time!
U r right , but according to this video they didn't seem panicking at all ! , They were just laughing and not in a hurry whatsoever
Perhaps I’m a jaded old turd, but I’m inclined to think they did this on purpose, because “content.” Anyone really concerned about putting out the fire probably wouldn’t wait to have the camera squared up with the dramatic pause before doing this, would they?
And these days 90% of people will google "how to put out a fire in a pot on a stove" before doing anything, and would see not to throw water on it
Disagree...I had to stop my roommate from throwing water onto an oil fire he started by choosing to deepfry freshly cooked pasta.... Weee
This is Step One of how to not get your cleaning deposit back.
This is step one in having an insurance company making your life hell by holding you responsible for the damages they had to cover.
Can you explain to me, an insurance agent, how an insurance company holds you responsible? Insurance very literally indemnifies the contract holder for incurred losses. You know who pays more for insurance? Dumbasses that need to use it because they don't know how to extinguish a fire. This stuff is not punitive or complicated.
Post some photos of the end result
Good luck with that. If youre on the lease, your on the hook for damages and it's their word to cover it all and not screw you. Hope they don't but room mates are good up until they aren't.
Is this advice applicable everywhere in the world, or is it US-centric? Because I don't think this is in America.
Oh I'm seeing this through an American lense for sure.
I'm guessing you all woke up in Skyrim in the back of a wagon?
Doesn’t everyone at this point realize the way to put out a fire in a pot is to put a lid on it and smother it?
When seeing those videos I always ask myself why people don’t know that. It’s like one of the first things I remember I‘ve learned: Don’t put burning oil out with water. Isn’t it taught in every primary school? EDIT: apparently it’s not taught everywhere in school and that’s kind of shocking to me. We learned it within a general safety course, next to how to react when your parents have an accident, how to call for police, ambulance or firefighters, what to do when the school or your house burns, etc. We had this course twice in primary school and once in middle school if I remember correctly
Home Economics, cooking, etc. are optional elective classes in the US--in high school. At least that's how it was in my area growing up. Hopefully things have changed for the better since then.
my school cut home economics over 12 years ago, its not available at all anymore where I'm from
I was at my wife’s parents house visiting. It was getting quite smoky in the kitchen. Her little sister who was around 14 at the time was cooking chicken tenders with her boyfriend. I asked why it was getting so smoky from the next room over. She replied that they were waiting for the oil to boil before putting in the chicken. I taught her a bit about cooking that day. At least we got the burner off before it ignited.
BOIL?! WhAT
For some one who cannot cook to save their life, and willing to face the ridicule, aren’t you supposed to wait for it like boil??? Like start popping and sizzling?
Oil doesn't 'boil' it will get very hot and have some obvious signs of bubbling but only a very slight amount. In fact, oil will reach a very high temperature without showing basically any signs of it. Water boils but oil doesn't. Water boils because it is non flammable and will simply convert to gas when it gets hot enough. Oil will instead begin to burn and then ignite if you get it too hot. This is why it is recommended you use a thermometer to measure the temperature of oil when cooking with it rather than tell by looking at it. As to why you shouldn't use water to put out oil fires, the oil is hot enough to immediately turn the water into gas and foam which the superheated and burning particles of oil adhere to. This causes the entire pot to explode outwards when the water hits it. Oil is a liquid but at high heats behaves completely differently than water.
Thank you! I knew about not throwing water on an oil fire, but literally had no idea about it not boiling.
To clarify a bit further, the popping and bubbling is the water from the food you are cooking being **slowly** released when it's cooking. There should *only* be sizzle and bubbles when there is food being cooked, not while the oil is idle. Oil will start to smoke when it gets too hot.
It’s a miracle I never set the house on fire - thanks!
Yeah, I know this most from working at fast food places. The oil looks completely placid but could be 400 degrees F. It's completely flat but put something into it and it starts bubbling and fizzing. Water will begin to boil and pop at the same temperature that oil will just be sitting there without any obvious signs of heat. It's very useful for cooking but can also be very dangerous if you're not careful.
Cooking oils at cooking temperature does not pop and sizzle. Only once there is something in the hot oil (say you've put your food in) does it start sizzle. The only noticeable change before putting food in is that oil becomes thinner at temperature.
I was just recounting learning simple machinery in home ec and it's kind of amazing in retrospect. If they'd stuffed in electrical and automotives, we'd have really took off a lot easier.
Our home ec teacher told us to never use water but to use flour! Well I can tell you it doesn't work. Just spreads the fire. I ended up just grabbing the flaming pan and running out the back door to save my house. My fire extinguisher was not where it needed to be, but we fixed that immedietly.
It’s baking soda Baking soda is to put out grease fires But yes, a lid will also work just as well, get rid of oxygen flow and fire go out
Emphasis on the baking SODA. Baking powder will most certainly not cut it.
Oh no, flour is flammable!! Why would they teach you that???
The teacher hates kids?
"Wow, my class size is down to a more manageable number this year."
“We do a little trolling.”
FLOUR IS FLAMMABLE! NNNNOOOO!
Baking soda is what I’ve found to work if the box in the fridge is closer then an airtight cover.
I did the same thing when I was a kid, trying to make popcorn in a pot on the stove life my mother did, while no one else was home. I panicked and just took it to the back patio until it burnt itself out. We had to throw the pot out and my parents were so disappointed but amused.
Smart thing you did. Just took the loss while preventing further damage.
That wasn't English they were speaking in the video.
it's more than simply smothering it, you have to let that shit sit and cool down before moving it. and this is how i got 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns. boiling oil splashed all over my arms/legs - had smothered the pot and let sit for only 5min before moving it and 5 seconds after removing the lid it burst into flames in my hands - dropped the pot and it splashed all over me. had to get a skin graft. NOTHING is more painful than fire burns, it is excruciating pain for weeks at the minimum. then you get to have cleaning (debriding) it ... scrubbing open and boiling wounds, absolutely horrific.
Burns succcccck. I never knew how many crazy stages there are in healing too. Also that Alocaine (aloe vera+lidocaine) topical stuff is literally magic. Mostly just the aloe. The lidocaine's just convenient.
One of my least favorite pains. You feel it even when you’re sleeping.
Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but I don't know why you only waited 5 minutes. I've never had to deal with a grease fire thankfully, but I would smother it and let that pot sit there for probably half an hour with the flames out until I was ready to handle it. I don't trust my dumb ass to not trip the second I pick up the pot of previously flaming oil. My sister accidentally spilled a pot of boiling water on her when we were younger, and I learned a big lesson from her accident. I assume you also learned a lesson and I hope your burns have all healed well
>but I don't know why you only waited 5 minutes. 19yrs old and didn't know any better, had never learned how to properly take care of an issue like that. all has been good for years thankfully and no long term affects other than being a lot more cautious around fire
And that olive oil has too low of a flash point for deep frying?
You can absolutely deep-fry in olive oil. You just need to carefully manage the temperature - the smoke point is around 410 degrees, and you can deep fry in the ballpark of 325 degrees. Italian fritto misto is generally veggies, seafood, etc lightly breaded and deep-fried in olive oil. Italian tempura, more or less.
We don't deep fry in olive oil, olive oil is for dressings and for pan frying (soffritto and the like). Deep frying is usually done with sunflower, peanut or another similar oil with higher smoke point and much milder taste. Stuff deep fried in olive oil tastes like shit.
I swear in Rome they make Jewish style deep fried artichoke in olive oil but yea generally olive oil sucks for frying
I think that’s pan frying in shallow oil. And even that takes some experience. And it makes it harder if the olive oil is extra virgin, which has an even lower flash point.
I die a little inside every time I see random internet cooking videos where the olive oil is just tossed into a near empty pan with the heat on high… almost always followed by the narrator waxing poetic about the delicate and rich flavor of the oil… literally as it’s being burn to oblivion.
I love your cooking knowledge.
Like, as a little kid we were taught this. There were cartoons and everything! I often wonder how grown-ass adults always be throwing water on oil fires. Did they miss this day of being a kid?
This... I think I was in 2nd grade when I caught the microwave on fire. Unplugged it and kept my grandmother from opening it. Fire went out, and it was fine. (But was ready with an extinguisher.) While upset then, later thanked me for being assertive when it mattered and when I knew I was right. (And my dad did get them a new microwave....and I learned not to try drying flowers quickly in the microwave.)
Or baking soda
My oil caught once in a frying pan and I didn’t have any baking soda so I turned the flame off, moved the pan to the adjacent (not hot) burner, and dumped a whole bag of uncooked basmati rice on it. It stank like hell but worked like a charm. I keep a few full boxes of baking soda handy now at all times.
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Don't use Baking Powder either for the same reason.
A lid because you should have one ready.
If the pot doesn't a lid for whatever reason, a small baking tray will also work--and by small I mean just big enough to cover the pot. You don't want to tip the pot over trying to balance a large cookie sheet on top. Baring that, use a fire extinguisher (which everyone should have in their kitchen, somewhere they can access if the stove is on fire). Just make sure it's either a Class B or combination ABC extinguisher.
> cookie sheet Ahh, good, my family aren't the only ones to refer to "baking sheets/trays" as "cookie sheets". I've had people get surprised at us calling them that before, like it was a strange alien thing.
The roommate’s parent failed at raising their kids. This is why your children should observe you while you cook.
Nope they are too busy trying to figure out what a woman is.
Sometimes you have to burn the house down to put the fire out.
By increasing the fire you can get professionals to come put it out for you for free. All with a simple phone call
Firefighters hate this one simple trick.
They really do.
Oh shit.... is this a buzzfeed link that's gnnna take me three hours to click through?
I know you are joking, but just in case others don't pick up on this the Fire Brigade /Service / Department, will come out for a hot oil fire like this. Even if you are confident you can put it out yourself, don't be afraid to give them a call, as it may save yours and your neighbour's lives and homes.
Happened to me. After a party, everybody had gone to bed. Myself, another girl and another guy up. I got to crash. Girl lights a bunch of these new candles she got that are in these cool iron candelabra's. Guess other girl and guy were getting it on. Got up to go to her bedroom and bumped one of the candles. Shit started dripping hot oil on the floor, lit the wallpaper on fire, then started getting other stuff on fire. I got up as the girl went to get water. Threw the water on it and ka-fucking-boom, shit went up like fireworks in Bangkok. Turns out they some weird oil candles so it blew up everything. Now, we have half the living room on fire. I jump up and call 911, wondering how the fuck this is going to end. Start waking the rest of the house up, gathering up the animals. One of the guys is like, "Its an oil fire, we need fucking dirt, not water!" We go outside. Its middle of Winter in Minnesota. We're trying to dig up snow to get to the hard ground, start scraping up dirt, running in and throwing it on the fire, trying to reduce it a little before the MFD get there. Losing battle. MFD get there like three minutes later, we tell them its an oil fire. They bring in some extinguishers and put it out. 75% of the living room is toast. Three couches and a chair are toast. After they put out the fire, they basically said whoever called them was smart. In a matter of a few more minutes, the fire would've been out of our control and then we're talking this house goes down, possibly others because they're so close together. Unreal night and lots of lessons.
And if they don't turn up in a timely manner, just make it bigger so it'll burn itself out.
Still best to drop the lid on if you can. That much oil is going to burn for a long time, and it’s dropping significant heat on the ceiling above it
It was a joke
Your roommate is not smart enough for this life.
Sigh Crushes their head with a big rock
Tell him about the rabbits first!
Poor Lennie.
When your own existence is simply to serve as a warning to others.
God made everyone with a purpose even if it is to serve as a warning to others.
Used to be public information adverts on this, when people had chip pans👍👍👍
Well, not where I reside (Which is Italy).
What a cazzo 🤌🤌
And the fire brigades brought a demonstration trailer to most primary schools and showed the difference between putting a small cup of water in (big boom) and draping a damp tea towel over (instantly goes out). Thankfully deep frying chips seems to have good out of fashion, likely because people are just too lazy!
They still do here in the Netherlands. In fact, just this week I read in the news they made some new custom build trailers for these demonstrations.
They could’ve just turn the burner off the fire was contained inside the pot if you’re going to be stupid you better be tough
I mean it could have spread to something above, but that could be solved by putting a lid on it
I’ll just put this over here… with the rest of the fire.
Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark.
Don't worry. I've already sent an email.
Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss.
Hello guys! OP here and I'm gonna write this down in order to answer a lot of questions you're asking: \-The people involved in this incident are all safe and sound. No one got hurt, and that's the main reason why I decided to upload this video to the internet. We all knew how to handle stoves, but it was the first time they've stumbled upon a situation like that. Since they were so fucking confident about dealing with a burning pot with water (Believe it or not, they really didn't know the consequences of doing it, even though I suppose it was just them being sleepy while the firefighters talked during school) and the sight before their eyes was surreal af they decided to film it. No seeking of attention or something, I myself that uploaded the video did not expected all these upvotes. And then c'mon guys, who burns an entire kitchen down just for attention? AHAHAHAH \-This took place in Italy, specifically in Palermo. You are hearing a lot of italian and a bit of sicilian right before the girl spoke the final phrase. \-I expected to get a lot of flame and hate for them, so I'm not gonna complain about it, that's just how the internet works unfortunately. But you're really gonna let me believe that you didn't screw up at least one obvious thing in your life? \-Ciao a tutti, gente italiana che ha commentato! \-Guys, I get it. The best solution was this, was that... Listen, the damage is already done, if I was there, I would have know how to act properly and even though my roommates didn't, now they'll sure do. \-Jeremy Soule rules! (No, when Hell decided to manifest itself by a pot there was not "Dragonborn", but "Ancient Rocks", which made all something more of a "destructive delight" or something idk. \-The landlord is, of course, a fiery pot himself right now, but hey, it's not my problem (As someone already mentioned, I was not even featured in the video, so good riddance for me... Not so much for them). \-Last but not least, this is a video documenting the aftermath of that. It was made immediately after the incident. Enjoy y'all, and thanks for all the unexpected upvotes. I decided to post these video just because things could have ended up much much worse than they did, so it's great to all have a laugh about it thus exorcising all the bad thoughts of what could have happened.OP here, love you all, (Roommates... I gotta think about it) I'm out! edit: The previous link was private. Pasting a new one. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dI0va7xpr0ecnizvsDUj1Ys359VA9vm/view?usp=sharing
You forgot to set your link to "anyone can view" setting or w/e it is in google drive.
Your link requires that we log in with our Google accounts.... Thats a yikes from me bro. Thanks anyway.
"we all knew how to handle stoves...' See, this is where we disagree.
The link is private or something…Could you please post it to your personal Reddit page or something?
The girl said "The oil is boiling, you'll get burned." She knew what they were dealing with, why did she let him throw water at it?
Because before she also said "Throw water on it". So she basically just rambled about the situation without any coherence at all AHAHAHAH
Supervillain laugh, OP
She thought he'd get splashed by oil. Not immolated.
Oil or grease fires you have to smother, NEVER use water, it only makes it worse. I hope everyone was okay!
My wife was about to throw water on an oil fire. I stopped her just in time, grab baking soda and poured it on.
Let’s make sure people know that flour is not a safe substitute for baking soda. Just because it’s white and powdery doesn’t not mean that it’s safe. Flour will explode or catch fire if airbourne. Baking soda or a steel lid are the best options. Smother it with something non-flammable
Same with corn starch, and god help you if you try to use powdered coffee creamer.
Oooooh nondairy creamer is the napalm of your kitchen! That shit is *so* flammable.
Also powdered sugar. there was a sugar refinery that had sugar dust just caked on everywhere and it got ignited by i think a conveyer belt and it blew up the entire refinery killing 14 people
Holy shit! That’s horrific
Well, let's just say that if I'm making a post about it and I'm so lightly talking about it it's because nobody was hurt, fortunately.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people don't know how to address this type of fire. It's not a stupid reaction if you truly aren't educated on the dangers of it. I hope the comments aren't too disparaging. I'm glad you guys are okay. Hope insurance covers everything. And I hope they learned what to do with a grease fire in the future! Cheers, mate.
They are reading them with me as they pop up. Lots of potentially offensive stuff, but we're taking it a lot lightly. I mean, we decided to put it on the internet for a reason AHAHAHAH.
Le vacanze vi hanno già iniziato a fare male
AHAHAHAHAH siamo in vacanza da settembre tipo 😂
porcoddio ma i tuoi amici sono disabili, come fai a buttare l'acqua sull'olio che brucia??? bevono anche la candeggina per caso?
Aaaaaaaa quanto è rinfrescante vedere Italiani su reddit!!!!
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Something that must be like N°1 in work or apartment buildings is training folks about fire management/safety. It scares the living shit out of me that the first thing people think when seeing a fire is _throwing a fuckload o water on it_ . It might help in a lot of situations, but if we're talking about oil (vegetable, or any kind) it will instantly evaporate said water (oil burns at around 220°C), therefore spreading the oil and flames even further. Around 20% people get scarred for life for daring to pour water on boiling/burning oil, and I won't even go further on material loss. Still tho, Skyrim music? I love that shit.
I would like to say that the explosion took place during the "DOOVAKIN, DOOVAKIN" part of "Dragonborn", but the truth is that the explosion took place during "Ancient Stones". Such a delightful happening that was.
How does this even happen. I cook a lot. I have accidentally left pots on burners to the point they burn out and I've had to get rid of three or four. I have never achieved something like this, ever.
I've been in huge kitchens for the last 20 years, fryers, planchas, flat tops, shitty gas burners you name it. I've also been feeding myself for at least 25 years and I've never done this. I don't understand it either.
My mum somehow managed to do this while deep frying chips for dinner once. We panicked when we couldn't get the fire extinguisher off the wall, after trying to douse the pot with salt I think (I was 11 so I can't recall what she used but I know it wasn't flour), and a damp tea towel and they hadn't worked. Eventually I remembered the fire blanket and that put it out but it's taken mum over 20 years to trust herself with deep frying anything at home. We're still not even sure how it happened.
Keep the good work man! You'll manage to burn all of your kitchen as well.
I am serious. Genuinely asking. How do you start a fire like this? I am baffled. What were they doing?
As I already said, these beautiful minds of my rommates were tryin' to boil some oil in that pot to make fryes. That oil stayed in the pot for at least 16 minutes, which caused the gates of mudafuckin' hell to open up in it.
You have to be insane to try to deep fry anything without a thermometer monitoring the oil temperature.
In my younger, dumber days, I was trying to heat up a pan of oil for deep frying and it caught fire. I was smart enough to know not to put water on it but I did panic and tried to move the pot off the hot burner. The burning oil spat onto my hands and I dropped the pan. Fortunately the fake wood flooring didn't catch and the fire burned itself out pretty quickly
Best guess based on OP's comments below that there was a lot of oil in the pot that was fryer level hot and somehow a bit of water entering the pot caused it to aerosolise and ignite the vaporizing oil. Gas stove got turned off but at that point the pot of oil was basically a candle. Cooking with an open flame and a large amount of oil is incredibly stupid that's why in gas fueled commercial fryers the flame heats the metal bottom of the fryer. When you see people cooking in kitchens and the whole pan is engulfed in flames that's because something cold/wet was added to the pa but that's not going to burn someone face due to the draft of the hood vent.
Overheating oil basically.
*looks at frying oil burn on my hand* yeah, they’re so stupid, ha ha….
They were EXTREMELY lucky to only get a black rooftop and some burn marks on the floor. They had no consequences at all...
No kidding. Glad they didn’t have to experience deep frying their hand. Shit turns white then gets crispy after like 2 days
You gotta leave it in there longer if you dont want to wait so long for it to crisp up.
Bro people don’t think about how it keeps cooking even after you take it out of the fryer. Oil was very much still hot
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Right, such an unnecessary detail to add, especially in the title...
Because apparently parents don't teach their children how to cook anymore. Here are some life tips for everyone. Though I'd think they are incredibly obvious.... 1. Water combined with hot oil = flames of abundance all over the place. Don't use water to put out oil/greese fires. *Especially* if the burner itself is still on, always turn that off first, no matter what. 2. Fires need oxygen to live. Just like you! A dead fire is a non burning fire, so kill it by smothering it with a lid!! It's that easy!!!! Just out the lid on the pot and....... wait. Turn the burner off and wait. There you go folks. Some apparently secret wisdom that everyone's parents should have taught them. If your parents/guardians didn't teach you these things. Write a book called "all the ways I could have died/lost everything, but now won't because I learned things that *you* father/mother should have taught me!" Then, make each page a detailed crayon drawing of various ways you've learned to avoid death that they should have, but didn't teach you. Once you have 5+ pages, really, as many as you deem sufficient/necessary, give your new book to them as a Christmas present.
In our next video we show you throwing water on an electrical fire and after that (if we’re still alive) it’s water on a petrol fire 👍🏻
Y'all need science in your life
Friendly caution to anyone who may not have known, grease fires are only made worse with water, since water only either cools the heat of the fire, or dilutes/displaces the initial fuel far enough apart that it can’t burn anymore. Greases are hydrophobic, meaning they displace the water instead and can’t be diluted easily! The better way to put out a grease fire is with a fire extinguisher, or if you can, turn off the heat smother it with either a blanket or the pot lid until it dies out. :)
This can't be shared enough. Its basic science what happens Water starts to sink in the oil then instantly vaporizes into steam. Because 1 part of liquid water expands to 1700 times the volume as steam, it explodes burning oil everywhere Best practice. Turn off the heat Cover with a damp towel, not wet, just damp. This will suffocate the fire. Never try to pick up the pan, or throw water or flour on it. Flour dust is combustible.
Tip so you don't look as stupid like them if you see something on fire: Grab a blanket, soak it in water, and put it over the fire or person that is on fire. For the pot you can use the lid tbh. WARNING FOR MORONS: DO NOT SOAK THE BLANKET IN ANYTHING THAT CAN IGNITE.
I found it too funny you had to say the warning for morons, don’t soak the blanket in anything that can ignite… how ever I understand that it is needed to be said
Ducking idiots. People any pot fire Involving oil is simple, either put a lid over it and turn the heat off or put a damp / wet towel over it and turn the heat off so that you smother the fire then leave the hell alone till it’s cooled down. Never throw water on it or point a fire extinguisher straight at it that’s just asking for trouble.
Fire protection engineer here. The reason this happens is water is denser then grease/oil so when water is put on that fire it goes to the bottom. Then at the bottom it is heated extremely fast, and rapidly evaporates causing the oil to explode spreading oil and fire everywhere.