Never use water on a grease fire. Oil at 600°C turns water to vapor that expands 1,700 times, turning your pan into a flamethrower. Instead, cover the pan with a metal lid or dump baking soda on the flames.
Never, ever, ever try to put out a kitchen fire using water or else both you and your whole house will get burned down. See, most kitchen fires are grease fires, and in case you didn't know, oil burns at 600 degrees and water boils at 100 degrees. So when you throw water on that burning oil, it instantly turns to steam and expands 1,700 times its size in a fraction of a second. When it does, it carries the flames of the fire with it, turning your pot into a flamethrower that burns your walls, your ceiling, and your face. People end up in the hospital with third degree burns from this every single year, so instead, suffocate the fire by grabbing a metal lid and slapping it on the pan or dump baking soda on it. Share this with your friends, family and tenants.
