How to survive fire in your kitchen

When my wife had just given birth to our son, I remember being afraid of going in the kitchen and helping her.

It wasn’t a terrible feeling, but I was having an awkward feeling inside of me whenever I stepped in our kitchen.

I had to do something about it because my wife was having troubles with some back pain and she couldn’t take care of our child while still slaving in the kitchen all day long.

When I started looking at the reasons why I had such a feeling about the kitchen, I remembered when I was a kid that my mother got severely burned when she was making soup one day.

The pressure cooker crashed in her hand and she was left with a burned belly for more than two months!

So, I made a decision to look for ways to protect myself and more importantly my family from fire in the kitchen.

And this is what I’ve learned through my readings and practices:

The first ways to protect yourself and to survive fire in your kitchen is to always have towels near you.

This can sound like a very limited advice, but it can save your life.

Let’s imagine that your pan took fire, what would you do?

Throw some water at it?

That’s what most people are going to do.

Guess what would happen?

The hot oil mixed with the females are going to jump to the sealing and then they would start falling all over the place, burn you and anyone near you.

Needless to tell you that your kitchen will look like a mess.

That’s why you need some big towels always handy in your kitchen.

Whenever you’ve got a fire situation, just water them a little and then throw them at the fire.

This way, you are going to deprive the fire form its most important ingredient, oxygen!

It’s the best way to survive fire in your kitchen.

The second way is to always have a fire extinguisher handy in your kitchen.

They don’t coast a lot these days, we bought ours for less than sixty bucks and to this day, we didn’t have to use it.

The problem with such devices is that they are going to require that you fill them every two years; this depends on the brand and the product they are using to stop the fire.

That’s its biggest problem.

However, if you feel that you don’t need one, just stick with your towels and your water.

It’s much more economical.

The best thing about a fire extinguisher is that when there is fire in your kitchen, you don’t really need to look for the towel, soak it with water and then handle it near the fire, you just take your fire extinguisher and you use it on the fire, quick and easy.

The third way is a precaution: avoid using oil a lot in your kitchen.

This is what I’ll be talking about some posts later: sautéing without oil!

It can sound very difficult, but it’s actually very healthy and safe!