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Vent: my aunt told me to put out a grease fire with flour, and now my kitchen smells like burnt biscuits
Two weeks ago I was frying chicken in my cast iron on the stove here in Toledo, and the oil popped and caught fire, flames about a foot high. My aunt Deb was over helping with dinner and she yelled at me to grab the flour bag, saying her mom always did that and it worked. I dumped a big scoop on it and the fire flared up even worse, shot up almost to the microwave and scared the daylights out of both of us. I grabbed the lid off the pot next to it and slapped it on the pan, and it went out in maybe 20 seconds. Come to find out flour can explode when it hits a grease fire because it's a powder, and I'm lucky I didn't lose my eyebrows or worse. The pan survived but the burner and the wall behind it are stained brown, and the kitchen smelled like burnt paste for three days even with the windows open. So now I keep a lid and a box of baking soda right next to the stove, not flour. Anyone else get told a family fix that turned out to be dead wrong?
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kelly_craig7d ago
That is scary as hell, good thing you grabbed that lid in time! My grandma swore by throwing salt on a grease fire and I did it once, made a huge mess but at least it didn't flare up like the flour did.
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