Holiday Cooking Safety Tips
No one wants to spend their holiday dinner surrounded by the fire department. Safety in the kitchen can save your and your loved ones from one of the biggest dangers of the holiday season, kitchen fires.
SafetySkills has provided the public with these safety tips for the kitchen:
Never leave food unattended while cooking.
The number one cause of kitchen fires is leaving cooking food unattended.
Keep all flammable objects away from heat sources.
Roll up long sleeves and keep all cloth items (pot holders, dishtowels, etc.) away from the stove and oven.
Limit the number of people in the kitchen.
Only fit as many people in the kitchen as there is space to work safely. Too many people can cause accidents and items to be knocked over, starting a fire.
Keep your kitchen clean.
Leftover food and grease can easily catch fire in burners, ovens, pots and pans.
Work carefully with grease and oil.
Grease fires can start and grow rapidly the hotter they get. Watch the temperature and put out a grease fire by smothering it with lids to pots and pans. Never use water to put out a grease fire, water will make the fire spread.
If a fire starts, call 911.
If your home fire extinguisher can’t do the trick when needing to put out a fire, immediately call 911 and evacuate.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:05 am
There’s a handy little product out there called StoveTop FireStop which is a fire suppressor for your cooktop. The beauty of it is that it works automatically when touched by a flame so you don’t have to be in the room to put the fire out. It just magnetizes underneath the venthood.