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There are extinguishers that can handle all regular fires as well as grease fires

Or

An ABC fire extinguisher

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Keep a cookie sheet in the oven. Just pull it out and place on top pot, pan to stop the fire. Without all the mess and maybe able to save the food you are cooking

I bet this varies heavily by location, as do most rules and laws.

> We use banking soda

That sounds expensive. Maybe a fire extinguisher would be cheaper?

1. Buy an appropriate fire extinguisher and/or a fire blanket. They aren't expensive. And they're designed for it.
2. How do you start a fire just cooking? I've been an adult for 25+ years and I've never managed to do it.
3. Any fire in the kitchen... just leave it. It's on a heatproof/fireproof surface, surrounded by non-flammable material, possibly in a sealed box (the oven). Turn the power off (my country mandates cooker switches where you can still get to them if there's something on the hob, for instance). Cover it. Wait. Like when I was at a Scout camp and a kid was frying with the pan on a grill over an open fire and it caught light (not surprising on an open fire with children cooking!) and they didn't know what to do. You know what to do? Put it back down and walk away from it. Don't carry the fire around with you like an idiot on a sitcom.
4. Why do you use baking soda in the dishwasher? It's already in or has an equivalent in pretty much every dishwashing powder/tablet that exists.

Thats a stretch to say the least. Fire extingushers wont always put out a grease fire, and its horribly inconvenient. Most fire extinguishers DO put out the fire, but they make a gigantic fucking mess and damages furniture and appliances (thats the cost of not burning your house down)

A grease fire is so stupidly easy to deal with, that "use a fire extinguisher" might be the worst advice here.

Put the lid on, put a baking tray over, throw baking soda in. Dont bust out the fire extinguisher for a contained fire that you can stop in 7 other ways long before the extinguisher is necessary.

Kitchen fires have their own designation of class K

i can't be the only one who keeps a box of 99 cent baking soda in the fridge, am I ?!?

Also know the difference between baking soda and baking powder.

1. see above reasons why a fire extinguisher is a bad idea for a kitchen fire unless it’s huge

2. i accidentally started a kitchen fire at 39. Poured hot grease into a non-tempered glass jar. Broke the jar, spilled onto hot electric stovetop, instant grease fire.

3. the cupboards above the stove aren’t heat proof. Neither is the surrounding countertop.

4. baking soda sucks up stink. Good for fishy smells, and other unsavory dishes.

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no need on my end. there's no oil or grease in my home. it has no nutritional value, so we dont cook with it. everything gets steamed or baked or cooked or grilled.

There is a bit more to it.

https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-put-out-a-grease-fire/

wow thanks for sharing

Fat fires tend to have their own classification, not Class B. Typically they use Wet Chemical extinguishers. Dry Powder will technically work but they are not the best.

I'd consider this good advice if you are deep fat frying.

Good to know, I’m not coming for dinner at your place

Thank you for posting this! Terrific LPT.

A small open tub (think cottage cheese or yogurt tub) with a scoop kept underneath the sink has saved my house/life twice now. Once for sure. I turned on the stove at a client's house and little did I know, they had spilled a grease drippings jar into the stove top. 2 foot flames instantly. Luckily I had just bought baking soda for this very reason, so fire averted.

Baking soda is also a great cleaner that is safe on most pans.

I think kosher salt also works.

shouldnt you put the baking soda on the flames before putting a lid on it? instructions unclear

do bankers get their own special brand of soda or something?

That's not enough for a small stovetop fire. A $13 bag (gallon, I think) will be enough for most stovetop fires, and it will remain powder if you never open it. As soon a you open baking soda it will start absorbing moisture and become a solid brick in a few months.

That was a LIST of 3 separate viable options. Not 3 steps for one solution.

What a sad life

But also, yes. If baking soda alone doesnt do it, toss a lid on it.

As a general rule, do both if you can, but try the lid first.

Or you could just get a fire blanket.

eating healthy is a sad life? you need to get out more.

That's not eating healthy, that's an eating disorder.

There isn't a single RD or CNS who would tell someone to never use fat in cooking, unless there is a very specific medical reason for it. Anyone who would is guaranteed to be trying to sell you some snake oil product they are hawking.

But I wouldn't expect any intelligent thought from someone who obsessively posts about Married with Children and bases their entire online persona around a fictional character.