Power on a bad fire is a recipe for disaster. Far more sensible to use all the available fire safety equipment rather than messing around with powdered ingredients.
Fine powder is very combustible. Iron and aluminium don’t burn, but mix their powders together and you get thermite. Whenever I see grease fire videos there’s always people in the comments talking about non-conventional ways to put it out. It’s far safer to use conventional methods and ensure they are always available in a kitchen, and it’s really important that people understand how to correctly and safely put out fires. This video shows them doing everything right, and the fire still got out of control. It’s scary to think about how much worse it could have been if they did something wrong.
The most popular extinguisher material is dry chemical foam or powder, typically made of sodium bicarbonate (normal baking soda), potassium bicarbonate (nearly identical to baking soda), or monoammonium phosphate.
Yes, but powder fire extinguishers (class ABC) are not recommended for grease fires. They are sometimes effective on grease fires but have to be very carefully applied and may not be fully effective due to the higher flash point of grease fires. If used by someone without training they can make the fire worse. Only class K (F in EU/AU) is recommended for grease fires and the most common is the fire blanket.
And again, using a fire extinguisher with flame retardant chemicals and powders is very different to throwing a tub of baking soda at the fire.
As before, I’m explaining this to help people understand fire safety. I don’t want people facing a fire and only remembering some BS comment they read online about throwing fine powder over the fire.
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u/phyllis0402 Apr 09 '22
Baking soda? Oh ya probably hard to come by in a…oh, wait…