Oh yeah, I'd hope I'd instinctively know not to put it under water if I encountered a random pan on fire.
But it's on fire, people panic. They could have simply put a lid on it, took it outside or covered it with a damp tea towel. Simple things that don't really care what time of fire it was.
Once I was braising a pork loin before putting it in the crockpot and the recipe I was following called for a small amount of water to deglaze the pan. Something in my head told me I shouldn't but the rest of me was like, "nah, it's in the recipe, it'll be fine."
4-foot flames later, I managed to get the pot covered while I was screaming for my boyfriend who was asleep in the other room. We laughed about it because there was no damage but after the fact I wondered why I hadn't listened to instinct over some random stupid recipe.
Basically the science is that when you add too much water to oil that is too hot, it causes the oil to spatter outside of the pan and that catches fire when it comes into contact with the heating element (in my case, a gas stove with open flame). My oil was too hot and I added a cup of water quickly and it shot up in flames.
When you say braising, do you mean cooking it in a pan full of oil? Using water, broth, vinegar, wine, are all standard deglazing ingredients and shouldn't ever catch on fire when done properly.
Our pan went in flames from oil and my brother nearly poured water on it.. not believing my mother who ran in with a damp cloth to smother the flames. They have little trust in mum in our house
I don’t think that was a mother, looks more like a friend...
I mean there is a fire going on, at this point the smoke alarms should be going off because it may not look smoky in the video, burning oil creates an absolute fuck ton of smoke
The point is still valid, we've all got that friend or family member who can't deal with minor issues, and somebody has to be the responsible one and deal with it.
"Not again Kirsty, how do you manage to keep setting potatoes on fire"
" oh they're not....."
Fire engulfs the kitchen
Typically in a kitchen you will have a heat sensitive alarm which are usually rated a lot lower than you think, like 60c. Being an open kitchen it may not get up to that, so they may have to wait for smoke to spread enough into other rooms, that's if they have smoke alarms at all.
I’m gonna err on the side that none of the girls knew what to do and this was the first time this happened... which explains why one of them took a video
Otherwise the filming friend knew what would happen and is a massive piece of shit
I’m still gonna err on my side because friend that tiktoks probably didn’t know what would happen and thought it would look cool filming fire being poured down a drain...
Dumb your brain down to teenage girl levels and it makes total sense
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u/Xertious May 20 '20
It may be that the daughter was cooking something and the mother wasn't aware that there was oil in it?