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Flour will burn. The best option is salt.
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What is the best way to put out a small kitchen fire?
Turn off any gas and pour water on the fire and/or beat it with a wet rag. If it is a regular fire, water will work, do turn off any gas. If it is an electrical or grease fire, you would use a fire extinguisher or flour.
Do you grease or grease and flour?
When you want the item to just release from the pan you grease. When you want the item to have a bit of tooth to rise on (cakes etc) and then release, you grease and flour.
Should a stove fire be put out with water?
NO, use salt! Unless its a grease fire only use water as a last resort (ie you have no salt and cant blow it out) NEVER USE WATER ON A GREASE FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should you use a fire extinguisher to put out a grease fire?
Yes, a fire extinguisher works on a grease fire. What you have to avoid with grease fires is throwing water on them, because the burning grease will just float on the water and will be splashed around as the water heats and vaporizes, spreading the fire, rather than being put out. But the carbon dioxide based fire extinguisher doesn't have that problem.
What are some ways you dont do to put out a grease fire?
never put water on it! it will just make it spead worse! you want to smother it! use flour or a towel/cloth to smother the flame
Why do you not use water to put out fat fire?
You never use water to put out a fat fire, because the pouring water on burning grease or oil will not extinguish the fire. It will only cause the burning oil to splash, spreading the grease fire around.
What common household products can be used to smother a grease fire and how do they work?
The easiest way to smother a grease fire is to cover it with a pan lid. Grease fires can also be smothered with baking soda. The important way is to use the fire extinguisher.
What type of fire would you use a powder fire extinguisher for?
There is no liquid powder extinguisher on the market.
Why does a grease fire make a fireball when water is added?
If you have ever noticed. almost every kind of fire will do that. you would think it would make it go out but. My theory is this. Yes if you dump a bunch of water on a fire it will go out. Exept for a grease fire. Because grease and water do not mix. So the water never realy touches the grease it just makes it splash around and makes a bigger fire. So use a powder like flour or salt to cut off the oxygen. Oxygen. When water steams or evaporates the molocules tend to get messed up. It releases oxygen. And fire loves oxgen. So that why a splash over water usually makes a fire flair up a little.
Can you use baking soda in fire?
Yes, for small grease fires on the stove.
What do you do during a grease fire?
Use a dry chemical, which may be in an ABC (or BC) fire extinguisher or in your pantry shelf (baking soda is a dry chemical). You can also attempt to smother a grease fire by covering it with a lid, if you can do so safely, as well as removing it from heat. Do not use water. It may explode or just spread the fire as grease floats.
How can a grease fire happen?
Grease fires are created when the heat starts to get hot enough to turn the grease towards a gas, creating fire
