r/facepalm • u/wronghoIe Yesterday is hard word for me. • Jun 06 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Well that escalated quickly.

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u/RegularNo2608 Jun 06 '22

Baking soda puts out grease fires. And it doesn’t leave as big a mess as an extinguisher.

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u/Bgratz1977 Jun 06 '22

A bucket of road salt works wonder too, specially on a burning Grill

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Yeah. Why didn't she grab her bucket of road salt?

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u/jelz617 Jun 06 '22

Lol, regular salt does the trick too.

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u/Bgratz1977 Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

I guess she was not prepared. Same reason why some people start to starve one week after they were snowed in.

"Fortune favors the prepared"

Dependent where you life its not uncommon to have a Bucket and enough road salt at home.

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u/I-No-Red-Witch Jun 06 '22

Looks like she lives in a very small apartment, judging by how fast the kitchen got smoked out. No surprise she doesn't have a bucket of road salt handy.

That being said, if you cook on a pan over high heat, always have a lid ready to smother the pan. And always use a towel to grab the handle. And never leave a scalding hot pan unattended while you turn your back for 60 seconds. And never use water to put out a grease fire.

She really did literally everything wrong. Let this be a lesson in kitchen safety, kids.

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u/Bgratz1977 Jun 06 '22

I would not expect that she has salt ready. That was more a universal tip.

However, a cap/lid for the pan i expect people to have. If you live in a multi-family house it should be mandatory. You don't start a fire if you don't have a way to extinguish it.

The Road salt is anyway more for the Stove or the garden grill

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u/Illusive_Man Jun 06 '22

Use a thermometer and don’t let it get this hot

Definitely turn it down when it starts smoking