It goes even further than that. Oil burns in liquid form at up to 600°C, while water flashfries at those temperatures into steam. Steam, being extremely hot, tiny molecules rip apart the viscous oil molecules, thus increasing the oils' surface area exponentially while still retaining most of the temperature. This gives the oil a much greater exposure to the oxygen in the air, increasing the re-dox reaction of the flame exponentially. Meaning, it billows up, over and out, while still burning. This creates an updraft which helps the oil continue being drawn upwards, increasing the temperature and the burning over a HUGE space. It's effectively a double whammy.
@@D4rknessInc. Opposite. Oil sits on top of water. The hot oil makes the water instantly turn into steam inside the oil, and in turn it carries tiny droplets of oil into the air. The oil then continue to burn while being thrown into the air, creating an explosion far bigger than the initial fire. Putting a lid on the fire instead chokes it, because without oxygen it can't burn
@@D4rknessInc. Fire need air/oxygen. Burning oil in container small contact area with air/oxygen. Water boils, rips oil into the air/oxygen. Oil still burns but now has much more contact with air/oxygen. Boom.
Funily enough this event is called a boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion (BLEVE). Which I like to think you better BLEVE you're going to need to regrow your eyebrows after you cause one.
Intially, I had a laugh along with everyone else at the hesitancy of the men. Then it dawned on me that the company didn't train them... at all. My 16 year old works fast food and I will be showing him this when he wakes :) thank you for providing entertainment and education.
Jennifer I’d teach him first aid and what to do for burns too. I’m more worried he doesn’t know that if he didn’t know how to use a fire blanket. How to stop someone choking etc. All very useful in that job.
This is why I love having a fire-chief as an uncle. On my cousin's birthday at the ripe old age of 12, he threw a "fire-safety-party" and had fun educating all the kids on how to handle fire. Man lit a barrel of oil on fire and gave us a 3m pole with a saucepan taped to the end and let us have a live demonstration of how to extinguish greese fires and what happens when you're an idiot. It was fun, awesome, terrifying and I will be doing the same exact thing in the future (with representatives from the local department for safety) Saying water expands by a factor of 1600 when turning to steam is one thing, seeing a cup of water turn into a fire-ball the size of your mum is quite a bit more memorable.
I had a great chemistry teacher, he did kinda the same thing during our first year, also about 12. He first played us so we would dare him 'till he couldn't deny us and had no other option but to give in'. I allready knew that was gonna happen cuz apparently all chem teachers do it and was kinda dissapointed he didn't make a fireball strong enough to blow a window pane clean out (as had happened with my older sister). The giant grin on the amenuensis' face was also a bit of a clue... Still, after he didn't have to pretend to not wanna anymore, he left a black mark on the ceiling that was still there 5 years later, so didn't feel to cheated... I still perform once in a while as part of a crew with firestaff, firesword and a huge fuckoff flaming axe, so my son may just be 2 years old, I allready have some things in mind. He's gonna have an awesome 6th birthday :p
I know, right? We had this brought up every year or two in K-12, plus a few times a year in Scouting, and then getting an "adult" job that was government funded would see fire safety rehashed 3-6 times a year.
My neighbor ( I was a teenager in the early 70s), started a grease fire in her kitchen across the street. As a teen farm girl I was well aware of grease fires. I calmly walked into her kitchen while she was freaking out, grabbed a towel and walked the cast iron fry pan outside set it in the grass and went back in and jerked the curtains down and dragged them outside. Then the fire department came and offered me a job (jk). They were happy I was quick witted. I told the lady salt, baking soda or a lid was a good option for grease fires. Edit: When a motorist told me my semi was on fire I calmly turned off the batteries, dragged my fire extinguisher out of its holder went to the front of my day cab looked for the fire (saw it was the starter) and put out the fire. This was my years of school bus driver training taking over. I did it without thought. Training training training. Fire Department came gave me a high five and went on their way.
Had a few grease fires. Once I used baking soda, fire went bye-bye. The others, used either a larger or proper sized lid or that towel to cut the air off from the fiery pan of immolation. Shutting off the heat or moving to a cold burner first, of course.
You sound like me. Instead of looking at a fire and freaking out about it, put it out. I have a panic disorder, though, so I'm freaking out about the fire WHILE putting it out. Lol
I've told this story 100 times but when I was 18 I was a supervisor at hardees and was training a new cook how to filter the grease. I told him to just wipe down the sides for a second while I help the cook who just got backed up. While doing it I heard him say "Mr steve" calmly so I said just Steve is fine( without turning around )what's up? He then calmly said Steve... and I turned around to a huge fire reaching up the hoods. He had turned on the gas with his knee accidentally. Still think about his calm Mr Steve once every couple months lol
@@draco4540 Have to be careful with someone who is unbelievably calm in such a situation. Sometimes it's caused by sudden shock. I work in steel fabrication, seen too many seemingly calm responses from newbies, but actually in shock at the sight of something bad.
Lol i did something very similar several years ago. Some humvees in the military have soft doors That don't stay closed very well after a while. So one day we were training which means we don't really drive that fast So one time after doing a post drill we got back in the vehicle and I didn't buckle up; combine that with a faulty door and a driver who likes to f-1 corner the turns i went flying out and through the door. I caught myself with my foot, the doorframe and what was left of the door but i was still hanging all the way out with my butt just above the ground. Anyway, I didn't once panic all I did was say "yo" in a calm voice to get their attention like i was just wanting to say something and Not one of the passengers even looked in my direction 😆, I set it again and still no response So with a still calm voice I said "hey guys i need a hand" (Still Not even addressing that I am halfway outside the vehicle) After that the other rear passenger looked over and saw And he is the one that freaked out for me And told the driver to stop so I could Get back in the vehicle and fix myself. I bet he still thinks about it a few times a month like you do 😆
I learned this at a very young age. About 10 years before I was born, my dad, who was a young newlywed at the time, tried to put out a small grease fire. He didn't use water, and he tried to snuff the fire out, so he was right in that regard. However, he was in a bit of a panic, which was perfectly understandable since my mom, who was pregnant with my older sister, was there. He was wearing just a T-shirt and boxer shorts since it was morning he had just gotten up. A lid wasn't readily available, and in the panic, he grabbed a dish towel to snuff out the fire. Grease got on the towel and caught it on fire he dropped it, and the hot grease towel stuck to his leg. The fire finally got extinguished, but dad had multiple 2nd degree burns, and the scarring is still all over my dad's leg and foot. By the time I was born, there was always a lid and baking soda by the stove , and my sisters and I had been taught this lifesaving piece of advice via my parents' experience and my dad's scar tissue.
Hey buddy, take a look for a fire blanket. They are a glass fibre "cloth" that you can drape over things that are on fire to make them less on fire. Things being pots/pans and in some cases people. Another advantage of them is that you can hold them up as a shield to protect yourself while you drape it over the burning thing which can be an issue if the pan really gets going. They are pretty cheap and last forever (until used at least)
@@Userhandleidk Get a fire blanket. A lot more reliable than salt and it never cakes up into a brick. Also if you get a huge, massive fire you might not have enough salt to cover it.
Two of my sisters had an oil fire when cooking popcorn. They both dashed over to the sink, stopped, looked at each other, and simultaneously yelled "No!" before one grabbed the extinguisher and blasted the stove to hell. Thank you to my mom for making us repeatedly watch a grease fire safety video when we were kids.
The Mythbusters did a very nice episode on this very topic, showing quite nicely why you don't use water to put out grease fires (well, unless you happen to have a helicopter and a bambi bucket). The other fun one from them is the water heater rocket. And that is why you don't tamper with the safety devices on your water heater.
I took some comfort from that episode. It reminded me that if a water heater does explode, you've either seriously screwed up, or you wanted it to explode.
@@Yonkage-ik5qb naw, one really can use one demo block of C4. Pop the blasting cap in, place the charge and deonate, the instant fireball from hell finishes the job far more effectively than trying to dilute the raging oil fire with gasoline.
Recently saw a video of a girl doing a livestream from her kitchen while cooking. The pan started on fire, and she panicked. She started going “I don’t know what to do!” And then she picked up the flaming pan and put it in the sink and ran water on it, and made it worse. The whole time I was sitting there like “That pan got a lid?” Thank you thank you for being a fire fighter. You’re an essential part of our society.
I had experienced grease fire during my Chef -ing days. The Girl was rushing to fill up a bucket of water I was screaming WET TOWEL ! WET TOWEL ! LOLs Good times .
In emergency situations the amygdala response in your brain (fight or flight response) can inhibit your ability to consciously think (prefrontal cortex). So putting water on a grease fire can actually happen to anyone, because the knowledge "don't put water on grease fire" might not be accessible in a state of panic. Our brains are wired to "act fast, think less" in these situations.
@@l.merbecks8144: How do you see this ending? Put down the mouse; back away from the keyboard... Think like a 1st responder: Grease fire/girlfriend? Which is the greater danger/threat? Who/what do we douse 1st? Last words you'll never hear from fire/ems: Stop acting crazy. If she isn't crazy, congratulations, you're the igniter. If she is crazy, you're the oxidizer. And no, you can't smother her, either... Exhibit A: Ex was a hot smoking mess...
This was one of the first thing we learned at school, don’t feed the fire, suffocate it! We used to laugh, but now as an adult I wish everyone could remember those lessons. 😳
im kind of glad i grew up in construction with a navy vet dad. Learned the basics of fire safety before i was old enough to drive along with some basic first aid.
Well, no. They're the most common because oil is one of the things your average person brings up near it's combustion point on a regular basis. Few people know how to put out electrical fires, but that doesn't make them happen more often.
@@musewolfman putting out electrical fires is easy and we teach it to our kids early in life. Call 911 and pray to God the fire department gets there fast.
there really are people on this planet who live in 1st world countries and who don't know that you shouldn't extinguish an oil fire with water? I do not get it. I thought everyone knew that.
@@alithekat1599 Well yes, if its already to a point where it's out of your control and has grown too large. Otherwise, if possible, try to QUICKLY flip the breaker off to cut off all power to anything in the building, and utilize an extinguisher to douse the fire. No need to throw in the towel IMMEDIATELY unless it's just too much for you to handle alone.
Many industry friers even have a cover specifically for fire. They can be found either as a pullout at the back end or as a slide-in that should be kept nearby. The problem, as our fire expert here has pointed out, training often doesn't go into fire control beyond "there's an extinguisher here somewhere" and I've met long-time managers of restaurants who also believe water always beats fire or, that you just let it burn itself out.
heh, when was the last time the chimneys were cleaned of all the grease and crap that fills them up? Letting a fire like that go is a great way to get a chimney fire and those things *suck*
industry friers are ussually connected to an Ansul system. it's all fun and games until your store has to close down for a week to clean the entire store due to an ansul situation.
Honestly, when it comes to oil fires, letting it burn itself out is probably a better option than putting water on it. At least if it just burns, it's under a hood and might not spread too far. If you put water on it, it WILL spread all over the place.
First grease fire I ever had, I heard a small *foom* noise. I turned around and saw the grease trap was on fire. I definitely stared at it for a few seconds... Then I fished out a big lid and smothered it. I stared at it the second time it happened too. Just... Mildly confused as to why my kitchen was suddenly on fire
Lol, love the end, years of training indeed. Reminds me of a story. I went to visit my mom once, and her roommate was cleaning up a mess on the kitchen floor. He told me he had been cooking, and the oil in the frying pan caught fire. He picked it up, and panicking, tried to dump it in the sink. He dropped it on the way, and it flipped upside down, and put itself out when it hit the floor. All I could think to say was 'hey, whatever works man!'
They always are. I'm amazed that some people in food service don't understand this..... This was part of my training before I was ever let into a kitchen
I saw this video when it first came out and shortly thereafter made the dumb decision to preheat an oiled pot while cutting the meat. It took longer than I expected to cut the meat, but when the oil caught fire I didn’t hesitate or panic but knew to just put the lid on the pot. All the apartment needed was to get aired out. I just noticed this video and realized I needed to say Thank you!
Not mentioned... In the video a fire-supression system is clearly visible inside the hood, all they had to do is activate it. However that does mean that the employer actually trains kitchen staff about what it is and how to use it. Also when you can't put a lid on it: - Baking Soda! - Proper (not water) fire-extinguiser (that you should always have, and know where it is).
Yeah I think those fire suppression system are supposed to active automatically now, not sure though. Would have been interesting to see the rest of the video to know if it activated.
Late to the party. As someone who's always worked in cooking retail, but moved from business to business, I can say they do half of what you expect. You are taught what things do, where they are, what and what not to use. You are then told not to do any of these things, and to leave the building instead. Essentially, always provided the information needed to prevent and subdue a fire, but told to never do it. Some of it will be health and safety, some of it will be insurance-based… Like if you've had training that told you to put out the fire, but you die, there's likely a lawsuit there. And if the fire engulfs the building, there's likely fire insurance to cover it. This is in Scotland though, I obviously can't say the same for the country/state this film is located in, and it does look as if they haven't been trained for this (or ignored training).
Yes, for grease fires you need a "K" (silver) extinguisher, iirc. Most places only have "ABC" (red) extinguishers. But the store I worked at had the extinguishers and fire suppressor in the hoods of all of the cooking stations and actually showed us the "PASS" method video (but told us only a supervisor was to handle the extinguishers. WTF?)
A few helpful hints: 1. In general, fires require oxygen, a heat source, and a fuel. 2. The CORRECT way of extinguishing a fire is to REMOVE at least one of these components, not add anything. 3. For electrical fires, try to turn off the source of electricity. For grease fires, cover the fire with a nonflammable lid. For campfire/wood fires, dousing the flames with water is helpful, but a fire extinguisher is your safest bet just in case there are exposed live wires/oil. 4. Only try and handle SMALL fires on your own. If the flames are spreading too quickly or the fire is too large, CALL the fire department.
Note: If you ABSOLUTELY KNOW that the electricity is now off and can't come back on, you no longer have an electrical fire. Water is then okay IF there are no other reasons water is bad.
@@Supremax67 sorry no, baking soda, corn starch, and flour actually are small particulates that cause fire bombs due to their thermal properties. Use salt or sand since the makeup of either is resistant to heat.
I put one out in a restaurant. I heard the kitchen yell and then heard the sound. I ran over and yelled *NO WATER. TRUST ME* we used a bucket of seasoning salt and a big ass bowl on top of it.
This is a really important comment. My mom is not the brightest crayon in the box, but I'll never forget when she forgot the convection oven was on and I came by to see it on fire when I was 9 years old. She acted so fast, DUMPING salt all over it. I was shocked, but it worked, and all we lost was the oven itself. Salt works wonders.
Once when I was frying french fries at home the oil boiled over into the burners. Luckily I acted on instincts I didn't even knew I had, and I quickly turned the burners off before the oil reached the fire. Thank you Worst Cook in America for showing all of us the best ways to create kitchen fires so the chefs could show us how to put them out. Yay!
Worked for chick-fil-a for 13 years. put out almost a dozen grease fires. open fryers are bit more of a hassle, but pressure fires are easiest, and i still had people just stare at it in disbelief. i always quizzed my guys on putting out fires and where extinguishers were. never had to use the Ansul system fortunately.
Good job on drilling your crew on it. That kind of thing you don't want people to have to think about. Having them just know it means a fire isn't a big deal it's just a little fire, you do this and put it out. Gold star.
I do the same at the gas station I work at. also explaining co2 measuring and that we have to fucking open a window from time to time. still every time I come in the display shows not only harmfull, as in lower brain activity, but actually toxic values. sure is hard to understand the world we live in.
Different types of common extinguishers: Class A- anything that makes Ashes (wood, paper, cloth, etc) Class B- anything that can Boil (grease, oil, gasoline, etc) Class C- anything that is Charged (electricity, outlets, batteries, etc) Class ABC- anything that Ashes, Boils, or Charged with electricity. Class D- metals than can burn because they Dent (magnesium, lithium, aluminum, etc) Class K- better for Kitchen fires that can boil (grease, frying oil, etc)
Nobody has ever explained ABC to be that way before. I do know the difference but A-Ash B-Boils C-charged would have really saved me some damned time! Thank you. I'm totally using this from now on.
@@petesoutdoor it still works. B works on grease fires. K works better and is for large grease fires. I always remember k for kitchen but I know b will put out a household grease fire. I'd bet a b would have been fine for the fire in the video in it's early stages (it looks like the vat is mostly empty).
@@petesoutdoor A Class K extinguisher is ideal due to it’s ability to form a foam blanket over the grease but a Class ABC extinguisher will work if a Class K isn’t available.
Apparently I'm more intelligent than some people in a higher grade than me, cus I knew grease fire + water = big uh oh since I was like 9. Oh well I guess it's more important to learn that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell than basic fucking kitchen safety
Same idea: I’ve always been taught to reach for a flat cookie/baking sheet to smother a fire. That or baking soda. Thank you so much for the refresher though, it’s too easy in a panic to mess this up.
Thanks for this comment. I hadn't been taught how to deal with a grease fire before (just that you don't add water to a grease fire) and was thinking that I don't have lids for any of my frying pans and my pots have mostly glass lids (which is not good for fire suppression). I do have a few baking sheets and a pizza pan that certainly will work in this case. We think that it *should* be fairly intuitive, but it's not when no one has taught you. And during an emergency situation, when one is panicking, it's not the time to work out how to do something you haven't been taught. Some will be lucky or clever enough and get it right, but most will hesitate and do something wrong, and in a situation like this, wrong can kill you. The best way is to learn it ahead of time and hope that you will remember it when you need it. A memorable demonstration is extremely helpful and preferable to first hand experience, which is the most effective teacher.
lemme tell you as someone who works in a restaurant watching that dude walk up with a bucket gave me the kind of jolt of fear you can only have when someone is about to do something tremendously stupid and life threatening. i get that jolt pretty much several times a week. love my staff but them kids are gonna put me in the grave.
I am slowly but surely coming to the realization that, after humanity has eliminated virtually all natural selection pressures, we definitely need some artificial ones to weed out the non-adaptive members from our gene pool. 😂😂😂
@@RustyDust101many of my gripes with rules and regulations boil down to just that lol. At some point, we have to let natural selection do it’s thing, we can’t keep trying to fight nature forever
@@DaTimmeh i have to admit i became 10x better at handling fires after i accidentally burned my eyebrows off being an idiot and leaning over a gas grill trying to light it with an open flame
When I worked at a fast food restaurant we had a dry powder fire suppression system in the grill, not in the deep fryer. We had several fire extinguisher on hand though including a class K one that was used when said deep fryer caught on fire one day.
to anyone joking that they're staring, yes it is funny. but I'd like to point out that they were calm. this could have gotten much worse a lot faster had they panicked. that being said, they're still idiots
Where was the fire extinguisher tho? It's a restaurant not a house so one should be there yet they're just staring at it like I did when I was 11 and hard a grease fire (didn't end well, still got burn wounds as proof)
@@knighthunter1791 I figured legally due to inspections they'd have 1 but inspections aren't always surprises so not having 1 or more all the time that can handle a restaurant kitchen cause of cost would make sense. Employees maybe also weren't trained to use it like how I was 11....which is very sad and dangerous.
one time my cast iron pan got too hot and as I put some oil in it it instantly lit aflame. I picked it up with a towel around the handle and put it outside on concrete, then put the towel over it and it instantly extinguished. I was so proud of myself for thinking and acting as fast as I did.
I learned this and fire safety as a child in the 80s. There was a real push in the early grades at that time for kids safety education for Fire, Poison & Strangers. I'm amazed at how many people don't even know the basics of stop drop and roll, or cover & smother flame.
In todays progressive school system, teaching the children about CRT and the sexual preferences of LGBT%HNVF+-O people is far more important than making sure they know how to handle common emergencies.
My school told me alot about fire safety, I don't get where you people come off thinking it's "not taught in schools". unless America really is falling apart, I wouldn't know I'm a Canadian and our schools system is decent.
When I was at university the local fire department put on a great demonstration of this principle. They had a saucepan full of oil burning and dunked a glass of water on it with a big pole (safety first!). Wow, did that great a huge fireball fast. Definitely a good lesson for dumb students.
They should be doing this demo way more often, in school and such. I saw them doing it 30 years ago as kid at a fire station open door type event, still remember it vividly. Big ball of fire stays fresh in memory, who would have thought ?
@@iNinBreak Ah, the classic. My Midschool chem teacher was (allegedly, pretty sure he talked that one up) banned from all but the oldest and most (ab)used chem teaching room, because he loved to demonstrate the liquid wax + water trick to essentially every class at least once. He had already ruined that room's ceiling, so it was the only room where his 'fun' showcase experiments wouldn't do any further harm.
Why call them dumb if they simply don't know? That's ignorance, something we are all born with and have in subjects we don't encounter often or aren't familiar with. Stupidity would be assumption or attempting to do something without knowledge on it, and therefore making the situation worse.
My mom already knew exactly how to put out grease fires at an early age. Not sure if she learned it working in a cafeteria, her parents, friends, or what. But she taught me to never use water on grease fires. I think she used baking soda one time when putting out a fire on a stove since it was the quickest, closest thing. But yeah, never had to use this knowledge but good to know. I love these videos. Comedic and teaching good lessons.
I'm lucky enougth to have had training as a chef in fighting a grease fire . The best way to do it is pray to the elder gods while sacrificing the youngest team member in the kitchen then you curl up on the floor in the fetal position and hope the fire gets bored and moves on to another kitchen
This sounds very intriguing! You MUST do a video on this method! think of the lives that could be saved, say nothing of the money saved on firefighter/EMS pay!
@@inconnu4961 unfortunately you can only learn the incantation from a level 5 elder chef . Its very complicated and involves 15 different languages some that have gone extinct. The sacrificial knife of Vernen the dumb the first chef to pour water on a grease fire becoming the first victim and his knife I used to offer the youngest team member to the fire out of respect ...... if you think this is interesting look up the axel system its an automated fire suppression system that sprays the area in a foam made from blended up babies and the souls of un named soldiers that are still lost on the ww1 battlefields of Europe
@@zaza7594 they do a vegan option but it involves digging up Rwandan genocide mass graves and using the soil to power it instead of babies . I prefer the old method of throwing puppies into the grease and letting their coats soak it up
Okay, time for my fire story. It was the summer before my senior year of college, and I decided to take the summer semester cell bio class. We'd been working on counting and plating cells under sterile protocol (read: bunson burner) all week and since it was a senior level class, we actually took it seriously and were generally responsible. Our professor nipped upstairs briefly to check on an experiment he was running and left the TA to keep an eye on us. I come back from the microscope closet where I was counting cells to hear an alarmed *"Uhhh..."* from my lab partner. She's staring at our sterile fume hood, where the PET plastic sample tray had gotten too close to the flame and caught fire. It was melting while burning very cheerfully. We stared at it a moment. She switched off the burner. I carefully reached in and moved the rest of the flammable stuff away from the flame. We called the TA over and he joined us in staring at the flame. We all knew water was a bad idea...but what were we supposed to do instead?? Naturally, this is when we discovered the teacher was gone. We stared at it another moment - half the plastic stand was consumed now - and then the TA got the fire extinguisher. It put the fire out! It also got melted plastic & fire extinguisher foam all over the $4000 fume hood. And this is how I learned you should smother a grease or plastic fire with a lid, beaker, or something else FIRST of you can, and reach for the fire extinguisher SECOND
Check the material of the lid/cover just in case. I had a classmate melting plastic with a cheap aluminum setup when he let the plastic get too hot and the plastic caught fire. He immediately put the cheap aluminum lid on it - which melted clean away after a second or 2. He eventually did get it out, but it was a little hairy for him and his friends nearby.
Honestly water probably would have been OK. It's only when you have significant quantities of liquid (or loose powder if you wanna get spicy) that you're going to get a steam explosion like this. Burning a plastic tray isn't going to have a large liquid volume. A thing you can do if you're stuck and water is your only option btw is *mist* the water, if the water boils/evaporates before it hits the burning liquid it won't do the big flame ball trick. but will still take the heat and some of the air out of the fire triangle By mist I really do mean mist btw, not droplets or sprinkling water etc. But file that under Plan-C.
@@zyeborm that's a really shitty solution! No-one has a water mister that can do that job safely unless they're already got a water mist fire extinguisher! Even a tiny drop of water into hot oil or fat or liquid plastic will cause a steam explosion. I know this, I've done it. You'd do better to let it burn than almost certainly accelerate it.
@@NigelTolley I mean it's worked for me more than once. Just with a garden hose and the mist setting. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a great plan, but it might be the least worst option.
For food service workers, if your place is properly equipped you should also have a Class K fire extinguisher (or hood system above the grease frier). As the video indicated water is BAD for a grease fire and using a normal extinguisher will just spread that beautiful beautiful burning grease, even more, so using the right extinguisher is crucial...also be aware of how your hood system operates, it's easy to assume it will kick on automatically but many may require you to pull a switch mounted somewhere nearby in order to activate it (we had this happen at a kitchen around where I work cause everyone including the chef assumed it was automatic until inspector indicated that wasn't the case). Oh for a bonus round, even if grease isn't burning if it's HOT treat that sh*t like uranium cause if that spills on you or someone else during the process of moving it no amount of plastic surgery will probably be able to undo the damage it can do...if you want to be scared straight just look on youtube, there are videos that will disturbingly drive home the danger and damage of hot grease. Always use proper PPE, and always announce where you're moving if you're in a busy kitchen and moving behind someone.
I work in fast food and we are always told not to use that system bc it costs £4000 each Time you use it and we get fired if we use it😭😭 I’m calling the manger and letting him presss that shit I don’t get a salary he does
This the stuff they NEVER teach on orientation or anywhere else for that matter. I say they should use the color system cause most stores only have one type to fight basic fires while also housing other chems in the back warehouse. Whose gonna remember!
dont need to look it up. My father managed to pull a deep fat fryer onto himself as a toddler. Presumably he wanted to see what was cooking but tried to use the cord to pull himself up. He's still got scar tissue all over his body from that.
@Benjamin Bierley can you tell me what a class k extinguisher is? I'm from germany so I don't know what this means. I know there's normal extinguishers with foam, there are special wipes for kitchens to put out fires and there is this CO2 extinguisher we've had in our workplace (car workshop). is this class k the CO2 thing maybe?
Instructions unclear... Step 1: Could not turn heat off of wife Step 2: Put lid on wife - Wife got angrier (?) Step 3: Order food but locked out of the house.
Okay, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Yes, I am a fireman, but I used to run a kitchen. Looks like these people were cleaning the fryer and didn't shut off the burner when they drained the oil. You usually realize it pretty quickly cause of the smoke but I guess they didn't. In my kitchen, I totally did the same thing but I caught it immediately and dumped a bucket of water in that I had ready for cleaning anyway. Looks like a couple of unsupervised teens that have never had to work with the fryer alone.
@@sgttau977 Every system is set up different and without seeing their hood I couldn't say. But I know for my place (It was much older) we only had a retrofitted Ansul system that only had a pull station. I've never dealt with a system that had heat sensors in the hood but they do exist and I imagine a facility that looks that new probably has them. Even if they have them though they probably aren't set off until 180+ degrees or so since the hood does already get extremely hot with normal operation.
You know, I think the most important lesson is honestly the "call 911" part, because it applies in general. Even if you do manage to put out the fire yourself, it won't hurt to already have a dispatcher on the phone, because if things go bad, you want the fire department to react as quickly as possible. Sure, there is the potential chance that you don't end up needing help, and you will have taken time away from a dispatcher who may potentially have gotten a different call at that time that nobody else was available to answer. But unlike with a prank call, you didn't waste that time for nothing, because it was equally as possible that you would have needed help, and it that case waiting would have taken valuable time away from yourself. Also, the dispatcher can advise you, for example screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" when you tell him you are going to pour a bucket of water into a burning deep fryer. Ideally, when you have two people as in the video, one of them tries to put out the fire while the other one calls 911. This way, you make sure you aren't wasting time no matter how the situation pans out.
Okay... SO on most "human sized" fires, it's all well and good to get it put out by any means necessary... BUT for dubiously large blazes, do you know how to conduct a proper "overhaul" of the scene after the flames are out??? Do you have appropriate equipment (like a Flir device) to help seek out hot-spots??? What about a proper "overhaul rake" at the very least??? Might be able to lick the fire initially, but there's a point where you should probably just go ahead and have the guys roll out and get through that tedious part of making sure you're not suffering a false sense of security and about to deal with a flash-over. ;o)
Or if you’re a kid or minority or poor, it’s probably a good idea to keep the fire and medical emergency direct numbers in your phone. Which can also be a little faster than going through 911 dispatch
Yep. If the confused workers had called 9-1-1 immediately, they would have been told to smother it or use a fire extinguisher, and to absolutely not put water on it. Being that they stood around for about a minute before dumping water on it, they had plenty of time for the call. The fire wasn't getting bigger until water was thrown on it.
Once, in my youth, I started a grease fire (oil left in a pan on the stove). I knew water was bad but blanked on what to do, so I opened the patio door and yeeted the pot into a snowbank. I see now that putting a lid on would have worked better.
When I was little my class had a field day at the local firestation. There was a firefighter that told us stories, we got to see the firetrucks and we were taught about fire safety. Not only that, we got to be smoke divers (a fun pretend activity but still). I remember that day and what we learned vividly to this day.
Paramedic here (3rd party EMS), did my student rideouts with various FDs in the area a long time ago. Most of the calls FD responds to are medical. Fall down/go boom, abdominal pain, excessive nausea/vomiting, and "chest pain" which turns out to be a pulled muscle. Oh, and the occasional MVC. They get SUPER excited when they finally get to go to a structure fire. It's pretty funny to watch. That's why almost all FFs are at least EMT-Bs.
Salt can work too for a flaming frying pan. Also a good reason to clean your hood vent occasionally, you don't want flammable grease building up in there when something starts on fire immediately below it.
Thats why i am glad I was in the Navy where they constantly trained us how to put out oil and gas related fires that water most certainly can’t put out. You have to take out at least one of the three components of a fire. Heat, Oxygen and fuel. And because the fuel of oil and gas fires is a liquid in many cases, water will only spread the fire and introduce more of the fuel to the fire as the water kicks up for flammable liquid. So you have to smother it or somehow take the heat out of the factor. We used AFFF in the Navy for exterior fires and a halon system for interior fires. A Halon system saps all the oxygen (and sometimes the heat) out of an area and the AFFF (aqueous film forming foam) smothers it to accomplish the same goal of taking oxygen out of the equation.
I've had that same reaction before, actually like a few days ago. i was cooking steak and the fire jumped into the pan and caught the oil on fire and i stood there like yep that's a fire. gave it a few seconds to either ramp up or go down then took it off the stove and 3 seconds later the fire went out. I remember one of the kids looked over at me and screamed fire and i was like yeah i know, im not blind. Just let me deal with it please.
Just a typical reaction. The second reaction is to evacuate after several fire drills. Luckily, when some tupperware caugt fire at a previous job (the dish stand was on top of the plates in the tiny kitchenette,. doh!) one person soaked a towel and smothered the fire with it. Electricity, heat, plastic fire, water? Not a good combination normally but it worked, I also don't know if there wera any flames or just melting plastic (which would have caught fire in a few minutes). The fire alarm was an insistent beeping sound from the alarm box, but there were no other indication that there was a fire. This was rectified within weeks.
At one time, I worked for a fire investigator; he worked for insurance companies. After awhile, I asked him and his wife, "how do you burn something down to make it look like an accident"? He replied, "make it look like you were cooking something and it caught fire and got out of control". He also added, "you have to let all your shit burn....a cooking fire in an empty house immediately looks suspicious". 😉😎
This was actually very helpful I always was told not to put water on an oil fire (I think it's mostly common knowledge) but no one ever says what you are actually supposed to do. Now I know to put a lid on it if it ever happens. Thank you.
Also throw anything similar to flour on it (I think salt and other things besides flour also work, but who has a giant bag of fine salt..? Most everyone has a bag of flour in their kitchen. It’ll smother it/absorb the oil/grease and put the fire out. It’ll smell like hell I’m sure, but if anyone is like me, I don’t always have a lid handy that’ll perfectly fit my pans, especially if I’m frying something, since you typically don’t use a lid in that situation lol
At 1:16 you can see a red canister on the wall in the top right corner of the screen. That is a fire suppression system. Its whole job and purpose is to put out fires!
I remember when I was a student, working in fast food too. We were never told these simple steps to put out grease fires. Of course I learned it later, also on television, Dutch firefighters showed what water would do and the precautions they took should already send a warning. They literally handled the cup of water with a ten feet pole. The guy in this video adding that water to the burning grease must have had some burn marks on his clothes, I hope he didn't get burned himself. Why not do what Ryanair does well (in this example)? Simply put firefighting instructions in big, colourful stickers on each deep fryer. And regular control to make sure the stickers remain clear and if not, replace them. 1. turn off heat; 2. put on the lid; 3. call the fire department; In that order.
This reminded me of an incident from many years ago when l ran a wee snack bar in a live music pub. The kitchen equipment was pretty old and very basic and the stove was a really old household one with the old spiral elements on the stovetop. We sold pretty basic food as the patrons were mostly there to drink and listen to music but it was a living. I ran it single handed most nights but, Friday and Saturday were busier so l usually had someone to help me and this particular night a new employee was helping me out. She was stirring something on the stove and l was at the counter taking customers' orders. All of a sudden l hear her urgently saying the stove was on fire, this was something that happened so often (busy kitchen, food spills, hard to clean spiral elements etc) l didn't even turn around, just told her to throw some salt on it and continued serving. A few seconds later in an increasingly panicked voice she starts saying, it's not going out, it's not going out. I'm finally caught up enough to turn around and realise that instead of throwing a couple of handfuls of salt on it like anyone more experienced would have done, she was standing there gently sprinkling, by now, foot high flames with one of the salt shakers we gave to customers to take to their tables. Still makes me laugh when l think about it. In case anyone is wondering, I DID clean the stove every night after closing, it was just too hard to do it while the kitchen was open, the fire did go out with a couple of handfuls of salt and no-one was hurt.
Recently found your channel (from your shorts), and this is a genuinely great channel. When I was in the Navy, we went through a lot of fire safety and firefighting training during boot camp as well as regular drills aboard ship, as a fire on a ship can very quickly go from dangerous to catastrophic. One of the things that the chiefs would bang on about during every drill or training session was quickly identifying what type of fire you're dealing with and cutting out at least one of the fuel source, the heat source, or the oxygen supply.
100x more important today too since with things like electric vehicle battery fires you cant just treat them like a normal gas fire. On ships thats super important too since there are so many electric fires. My dad was an electrician on board an aircraft carrier and to this day he's thankful he didnt end up on the USS Enterprise like the Navy originally planned, he said they had tons of electrical fires to put out and each time that meant an electrician making repairs as well as constant reports on why the fire happened to hopefully prevent them. All the chemicals on board also must be fun, especially back in the days where the ships were stuffed with asbestos.
smother a flammable liquid to starve it of oxygen to burn; cover the pan with it's properly-fitting lid, get a wet towel (larger and heaver is better - less likely to let air through the weave; don't throw that worn out gauzy old hand towel that looks like a modesty curtain ;) ) or if you've got plenty on hand, smother a small fire with LOTS of baking powder (in olden days there used to be fire buckets of sand on hand nearby something that would use flames)
I still remember when I had a small grease fire in my kitchen. It was like an out of body experience. I just remember calmly shutting the stove off walking to the pantry, grabbing the box of baking soda and dumping the whole thing on my stove burner (the fire wasn't in the pan grease had spilled under the burner coils) and then sitting down on the floor for a good while
Salt also works well. I keep both handy, and a type K extinguisher for if it's more than those can handle. Worked in professional kitchens for more than a decade, you did exactly the right thing. Stay calm, Handle it with a non flammable. Basically what you did was smother the fire. Then Once it is handled, then you can freak out. panic. Whatever you need to do. But handle it first. Well done.
The fact that he could've just pulled the trigger for the underhood extinguishers make me think he doesn't have basic fire safety and knowledge. EDIT: Found the underhood extinguisher, it's the red thing on the right
The fire training is probably on the e-learning platform that only covers one topic a month and they haven't been there for long enough to get around to fire yet or they just cheated.
Working in the grill of fast food, I can tell you that no one is trained on what to do in an emergency. No one tells us what fire suppression systems are installed, how to activate them… they don't even tell you what to do in the event of a fire. A lack of training all around. We aren't properly trained to do our regular jobs!
Back when I worked at Mcdonald's on our first day we were taught how to deal with grease fire by putting on the lid, cutting the heat (electricity) of a frying pan. The most important things were that if we didn't know what to do, inform the shift manager (which would probably notice if things caught on fire to begin with) and stay away from the fire. In some cases it is better not to do something than to do something stupid...
Yup. The oil doesn't burn, the oil vapour burns. When you throw the water in, it boils and explodes in a cloud of steam, atomising lots of hot oil. Congratulations you've now succeded in vapourising more flammable oil! Yay! :D
@@0neMadGypsy Unlucky for them humans aren't made out of metal, like who gives a shit about cleaning the kitchen (you do that anyway everyday, if you work in a place that takes health and safety standards seriously) Kitchens are literally made to be easily deep cleaned, tiles and metal. It's a hose and scrubbing, not that big of a deal. What is a big deal however, is pouring water into burning grease, which is going to react by exploding in the direction of your face, which is flammable, and grease/oil loooves to stick to skin, even if it's burning. His biggest concern is the fire, regardless of how inconsequential you seem to think it is, because that little baby waby fire is burning on top of a few liters of oil. Also, who on earth works in a kitchen that doesn't clean it everyday? Do you know how much of a safety risk build up grease is? Especially in an environment where you might have open flames, and plenty of things that can ignite grease. Not to mention health risks of operating a dirty commercial kitchen, shameful. "little pan fire" ah yes, a 4 liter deep frier with flaming oil = "little pan fire"
In 2015, an entire floor of one of my university's accommodation buildings was practically destroyed because a student attempted to put out a grease fire by dumping the pan in the sink and turning on the taps. Okay, the building was old and had seriously inadequate compartmentation, which allowed the fire to spread rapidly, but still.
Must have been a lot of oil. Normally just dumping it in the sink is already pretty enough to extinguish it already, since it shouldn't be all too much about its burning point. But the devil is likely in the details.
2:18 the guy at the back just got left for dead holy shit, imagine just doing your job and your co-worker starts a mini explosion then runs away leaving you to die.
@@jasonlarsen4945 It's not worth the money that is paid to the employees. That's why it's going to robotic workers, as a field. Robots and electronics could do fast food prep and take orders for far cheaper and free up humans to do jobs that require more skills and are economically worth the wages. Nobody wants food prices to rise just so restaurants can pay people $15 per hour to do stuff that's worth $5 per hour.
@@matthewmosier8439 Like what? Many, many vocations will die away to human workers. there are computers(programs) that will replace some doctors & lawyers. All vocations are in danger of this encroachment. This is why Universal Basic Income has become such a hot topic!
@@inconnu4961 Universal basic income is one of the worst ideas ever created. It always would lead to more control leveraged using the money being given away. It also (as the extra unemployment benefits proved during Covid) would lead to reduced labor participation due to human laziness. That would in turn lead to forced labor once the problem became unsustainable.
There was a fire safety training at my workplace, and I recalled the demonstration of "what happens if you pour water into a grease fire". The resulting fireball burnt a small tree branch which was about 10 metres above ground. If you are desperate, a damp towel would do as well, but you have to make sure that it is not dripping.
Thank you. Watching this video it dawned on me I have never talked to my kids about kitchen fires. Showed them the video, showed them where we keep the fire extinguisher. The difference between a towel or paper protect contacting the burner causing a fire and a grease fire. I have been in fires before, you would think I would have remembered to teach my kids how to quickly extingish small fires. 🤦♂️
When I was in elementary school, a guest came to my classroom to showcase various hazards. I don't recall if they were a local firefighter, someone's dad, or just the chemistry teacher, but they taught me useful stuff that I still remember to this day. Including the content in this video.
I was always taught to have an open box of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) (not baking powder) near the stove and if that sucker lights up, dump the box of soda in there. Soaks up the grease so it can't spread, but baking soda also releases CO2 as it breaks down which smothers the flames.
I think I used salt once, but that was just for a small amount of grease stuck to the heating element that was inadvertently left on during the filter process.
Gotta be careful though. My dad was a volunteer firefighter when he was younger and he told me about a lady who tried to throw baking soda on a kitchen fire and accidentally grabbed flour instead. Not a good time.
@@juliadagnall5816 That would be disaster if somebody did that. Why my wife keeps her flour jars on a corner cabinet at the opposite end of the kitchen behind things, and a full box of arm and hammer baking soda in the cupboard beside the cooking oil with a label that says fire use only. And a 10lbs ABC tucked in the coat closet beside the kitchen. If the soda doesn't work, 10lbs of extinguisher should. :-)
I accidentally started a fire in the cafeteria toaster and I stared for like. Five seconds before I was like OH SHIT FIRE and then grabbed a worker to find a fire extinguisher. And then they stared for five seconds exactly like those people lmao
That's why some things are drilled again and again until you act on pure instinct. Sometimes our brain just needs a moment to comprehend the information it's getting, especially if we deal with situations to which we say: "Don't worry, this won't happen here."
When I was a cook at a nursing home I was cooking porkchops on the flattop and of course nobody emptied the grease trap, so out of nowhere there was a 3 foot high flame. I wasn't sure what to do but I stayed calm and got the maintenence man and he showed me how to properly put it out. Moral of the story is keep calm yes it may be stressful but freaking out makes it worse
The place I worked at before had lids for their fryers. They worked good to keep water from splashing in while cleaning the adjacent fryer. They weren't perfectly sealed but they would have been enough to stop this fire if they turned the fryer off. Never had a fire in the 20 years I worked there though. But I would have never had a running fryer with oil bellow the heating elements like these guys. There is a little under 1 inch of the elements exposed from what I can see. This causes the oil coating the exposed part to get super heated. I think how long since it has been changed can also make a difference on it's flash point. As it is used the oil picks up more and more food particles. Our's was filtered daily but even then oil usually only lasted 5-14 days depending on what the vat was used for. We used a eye dropper to test the oil every morning. If we forgot we heard about it from the bosses, they valued making a quality product. Surprisingly onion rings killed oil the fastest.
It astounds me that so many people don't know how to put out a grease fire especially in food service. I learned at nine years old by watching Myth Busters and never forgot.
Surely they have to learn it though? I think it was one of the first things I learned at culinary school and I learned it in home economics class, so if they don't teach it before you start working at a fast food restaurant I'm shocked it seems like a must since they're working with oil a lot
@@iced- as I understand it, partly due to the general nature of it and the historically low pay rate it's famous for, food service in that kind of place is often fast paced, hectic, with a fast employee turnover rate, often short staffed amd therefore very learn-on-the-job. It also has a LOT of teens and 20 somethings working in it which isn't inherently a bad thing but sometimes kids don't have the emotional control or attention span that would be ideal for it You SHOULD have to learn things like safety protocols for a grease fire and basic food safety in detail long before being on a shift with what appears to be only one other equally clueless person, but sometimes things fall through the cracks.
they really need to make some basics a requirement, like how to put out a grease fire and some basic first aid along with the basic food safety guidelines.
@@iced- thats the problem though: home ec is increasingly being removed from schools and a ton of food industry workers, especially at places that do tons of deep frying like fast food, is work done by teenagers and ex-cons who are given little to no training.
Yeah, this happens when you clean the fryer. If you drain it without turning it off it will catch on fire. Always good to have a baking sheet next to the fryer in case this happens. Just be careful when you close the drain, sometimes you'll get a little fireball in your face.
That baking sheet tip would have been good to have in the video. I'm just picturing some panic-stricken employee yelling, "WHERE'S THE BIG LID??? WHERE'S! THE! BIG! LIIIIIID???!??!?!?!?!?
@@echognomecal6742 LOL, this has happened in one of the kitchens I've working in. Made me look like a bad ass covering the fryer with a baking sheet. They honestly should make em with lids in case this happens.
@@WeAreClaves Bad Ass for sure! *\0/* Seriously! With all the stupid regulations they make, no one thought, "Howzabout we have a way to quickly & easily smother the inevitable grease fire that one day will surely happen?"
I've had experience with a grease fire recently and remembered this video! Turned the heat off, slammed the lid on the pan and the fire went out instantly! Heart rate took a little longer though
As someone who is almost 40, I've known this since elementary school! Great video, I've shared with my family after they failed my pop quiz in how to put out a grease\oil fire! Thanks bud!
This was one of the first things my mom taught me about cooking. No matter what you're cooking never use water to put out a fire if it starts. Smother it with a lid or salt.
What amazes me is the have a hood extinguisher over that fryer and dont use it. All you do is pull the ring and boom, fires out. Although i always appreciate a little job security.
My first thought on something to cover this particular fire, since i don't remember my old job having a lid for the fryer, is to put a baking sheet on top of it, probably roughly the same size
As a trained chef I have seen a few grease fires. And thankfully I knew beforehand, what water will do. So I always grab the first thing in find to cover it. Heavy blankets can work as well. Just make sure it's an old one you don't want anymore. One time we used another pot that fit inside the fired pan, once it cooled down enough we tried to separate them.... We had to reheat then pan with the oil back to it's flame point to get the pot lose 😅 Also you might want to get a new pan
One time this happened at McDonald’s. One of the fryers weren’t holding correct temp so we drained it and left it like that and one day someone accidentally turned it on thinking they were setting a timer and it caught fire. We just turned off the fryer and it died in like five seconds.
It's also very common to forget to turn off the heating element before draining the oil, or turn it off but not wait long enough for it to cool down. With the bottom panel open and the oil level this low, I'm guessing that's what these kids did.
That’s weird. When I worked fast food we had a dispenser above the fryer that would dispense foam onto the grease if it caught fire. If I remember properly.
I remember that too. I also remembered that the last thing you wanted to do will you were cleaned the hood with it one of those dispenser nozzles because it would go off.
Dude you are hilarious. Thank you for educating the masses in fire safety while making in memorable. I work in fire alarm systems engineering and installation (yes I have seen your video dissing us. It’s ok. It’s true lol) and it amazes me how much businesses don’t understand having a proper and practiced emergency plan. You rock dude. Keep up the laughs and education. QUITE!!
"Ah. Let's just let it burn out...." I've seen a British PSA on grease fires. You don't see the narrator until she says the last line--her face is badly scarred from a grease fire.
@@0neMadGypsy nope; there's a bright red handle next to the canister just waiting to be pulled...those systems are less and less going to be automatic, because the sensors need to be cleaned and maintained, and that costs money, and when the company gets cheap and doesn't maintain them, they go off when there isn't a fire, which shuts the kitchen down for the day for cleanup (and wait for the supply company to refill and reset the extinguisher). Typically there's a a chain or a pull handle either over the fryer (dangling down from the hood) or a handle or button or switch beside the canister like this. ...which only works if your employees *remember* the training session they sat through five years ago...
Had a fire on our kitchen stove one time. Wife started yelling. I walked over, assessed the situation and calmly turn off the burner. Situation resolved.
Step 1: Stare at the fire. Some fires will become bashful and put themselves out.
Lmaooooo xD
Only if you're Chuck Norris.
0/10 would not recommend, ive already lost 2 houses using this tactic
@@watermelonduke3927 Just keep practicing. 🙃
@@watermelonduke3927 Lmao
I'm ten seconds into this video, and this man's expressiveness is epic. Love it.
Loving it bro
Dude I was gonna say can he just voice over all my subscriptions I dig this guy
More like annoying but he's informative so no disliking
Sort of reminds me of fire marshal Bill.
@Mr. Turnip He run's at 120 Hertz, He is in a completely parallel universe to our 60 Hertz life.
Step 4: Stare the fire down to assert dominance
Step 5: cover yourself on oil
Step 6: Jump in fire
Step 7: Become one with fire.
step 8: fly
Real step 7: yell "FLAME ON"
I've always known that water on an oil fire makes it explode, but I've never actually known why. Totally makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! :)
It goes even further than that. Oil burns in liquid form at up to 600°C, while water flashfries at those temperatures into steam. Steam, being extremely hot, tiny molecules rip apart the viscous oil molecules, thus increasing the oils' surface area exponentially while still retaining most of the temperature. This gives the oil a much greater exposure to the oxygen in the air, increasing the re-dox reaction of the flame exponentially. Meaning, it billows up, over and out, while still burning. This creates an updraft which helps the oil continue being drawn upwards, increasing the temperature and the burning over a HUGE space. It's effectively a double whammy.
@@RustyDust101didnt understand half but water is bad in grease fire bc the oil is heavier?
@@D4rknessInc. Opposite. Oil sits on top of water. The hot oil makes the water instantly turn into steam inside the oil, and in turn it carries tiny droplets of oil into the air. The oil then continue to burn while being thrown into the air, creating an explosion far bigger than the initial fire. Putting a lid on the fire instead chokes it, because without oxygen it can't burn
@@D4rknessInc. Fire need air/oxygen. Burning oil in container small contact area with air/oxygen.
Water boils, rips oil into the air/oxygen. Oil still burns but now has much more contact with air/oxygen. Boom.
Funily enough this event is called a boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion (BLEVE). Which I like to think you better BLEVE you're going to need to regrow your eyebrows after you cause one.
Intially, I had a laugh along with everyone else at the hesitancy of the men. Then it dawned on me that the company didn't train them... at all. My 16 year old works fast food and I will be showing him this when he wakes :) thank you for providing entertainment and education.
Poor kids. Being ridiculed, but they are just kids. Hope your kid stays safe✌
At what point did you realize you hadn’t trained him either?
@@ThePinkBinks when I watched this video. Showed it to him and the company that he currently works for trained him well :)
Jennifer I’d teach him first aid and what to do for burns too. I’m more worried he doesn’t know that if he didn’t know how to use a fire blanket. How to stop someone choking etc. All very useful in that job.
@@ThePinkBinks thank you for your advice. Valid point. He intends to become an engineer so first aid would be a lifelong gift.
This is why I love having a fire-chief as an uncle.
On my cousin's birthday at the ripe old age of 12, he threw a "fire-safety-party" and had fun educating all the kids on how to handle fire. Man lit a barrel of oil on fire and gave us a 3m pole with a saucepan taped to the end and let us have a live demonstration of how to extinguish greese fires and what happens when you're an idiot. It was fun, awesome, terrifying and I will be doing the same exact thing in the future (with representatives from the local department for safety) Saying water expands by a factor of 1600 when turning to steam is one thing, seeing a cup of water turn into a fire-ball the size of your mum is quite a bit more memorable.
Love the sudden your mom joke
That mom joke made me chuckle that was unexpected
I had a great chemistry teacher, he did kinda the same thing during our first year, also about 12.
He first played us so we would dare him 'till he couldn't deny us and had no other option but to give in'. I allready knew that was gonna happen cuz apparently all chem teachers do it and was kinda dissapointed he didn't make a fireball strong enough to blow a window pane clean out (as had happened with my older sister). The giant grin on the amenuensis' face was also a bit of a clue...
Still, after he didn't have to pretend to not wanna anymore, he left a black mark on the ceiling that was still there 5 years later, so didn't feel to cheated...
I still perform once in a while as part of a crew with firestaff, firesword and a huge fuckoff flaming axe, so my son may just be 2 years old, I allready have some things in mind.
He's gonna have an awesome 6th birthday :p
Man I was invested into that nice story just to get roasted at the end.
Was that a "yo mama so fat" joke??
It still amazes me how many people don't know a thing about basic fire safety.
Can’t fix stupid
Job security
I know, right? We had this brought up every year or two in K-12, plus a few times a year in Scouting, and then getting an "adult" job that was government funded would see fire safety rehashed 3-6 times a year.
I actually was not taught proper fire safety on school at all. The only reason why i knew off hand was that my mom knew xD
Because what happened in London in 1666 is more important than today
My neighbor ( I was a teenager in the early 70s), started a grease fire in her kitchen across the street. As a teen farm girl I was well aware of grease fires. I calmly walked into her kitchen while she was freaking out, grabbed a towel and walked the cast iron fry pan outside set it in the grass and went back in and jerked the curtains down and dragged them outside. Then the fire department came and offered me a job (jk). They were happy I was quick witted. I told the lady salt, baking soda or a lid was a good option for grease fires. Edit: When a motorist told me my semi was on fire I calmly turned off the batteries, dragged my fire extinguisher out of its holder went to the front of my day cab looked for the fire (saw it was the starter) and put out the fire. This was my years of school bus driver training taking over. I did it without thought. Training training training. Fire Department came gave me a high five and went on their way.
Panic would have made things worse
Good on you for keeping calm
Had a few grease fires. Once I used baking soda, fire went bye-bye. The others, used either a larger or proper sized lid or that towel to cut the air off from the fiery pan of immolation.
Shutting off the heat or moving to a cold burner first, of course.
You sound like me. Instead of looking at a fire and freaking out about it, put it out. I have a panic disorder, though, so I'm freaking out about the fire WHILE putting it out. Lol
Did the curtains catch fire too, or did you just not like the colour?
I've told this story 100 times but when I was 18 I was a supervisor at hardees and was training a new cook how to filter the grease. I told him to just wipe down the sides for a second while I help the cook who just got backed up. While doing it I heard him say "Mr steve" calmly so I said just Steve is fine( without turning around )what's up? He then calmly said Steve... and I turned around to a huge fire reaching up the hoods. He had turned on the gas with his knee accidentally. Still think about his calm Mr Steve once every couple months lol
nice to have employees who can remain calm under stressful situations. 🥳
@@draco4540 uuuh, maybe that’s too calm though
@@draco4540 true. nothing worse than somebody freaking out and screaming like an idiot
@@draco4540 Have to be careful with someone who is unbelievably calm in such a situation. Sometimes it's caused by sudden shock. I work in steel fabrication, seen too many seemingly calm responses from newbies, but actually in shock at the sight of something bad.
Lol i did something very similar several years ago. Some humvees in the military have soft doors That don't stay closed very well after a while. So one day we were training which means we don't really drive that fast So one time after doing a post drill we got back in the vehicle and I didn't buckle up; combine that with a faulty door and a driver who likes to f-1 corner the turns i went flying out and through the door. I caught myself with my foot, the doorframe and what was left of the door but i was still hanging all the way out with my butt just above the ground. Anyway, I didn't once panic all I did was say "yo" in a calm voice to get their attention like i was just wanting to say something and Not one of the passengers even looked in my direction 😆, I set it again and still no response So with a still calm voice I said "hey guys i need a hand" (Still Not even addressing that I am halfway outside the vehicle) After that the other rear passenger looked over and saw And he is the one that freaked out for me And told the driver to stop so I could Get back in the vehicle and fix myself. I bet he still thinks about it a few times a month like you do 😆
I learned this at a very young age. About 10 years before I was born, my dad, who was a young newlywed at the time, tried to put out a small grease fire. He didn't use water, and he tried to snuff the fire out, so he was right in that regard. However, he was in a bit of a panic, which was perfectly understandable since my mom, who was pregnant with my older sister, was there. He was wearing just a T-shirt and boxer shorts since it was morning he had just gotten up. A lid wasn't readily available, and in the panic, he grabbed a dish towel to snuff out the fire. Grease got on the towel and caught it on fire he dropped it, and the hot grease towel stuck to his leg. The fire finally got extinguished, but dad had multiple 2nd degree burns, and the scarring is still all over my dad's leg and foot. By the time I was born, there was always a lid and baking soda by the stove , and my sisters and I had been taught this lifesaving piece of advice via my parents' experience and my dad's scar tissue.
Hey buddy, take a look for a fire blanket. They are a glass fibre "cloth" that you can drape over things that are on fire to make them less on fire. Things being pots/pans and in some cases people. Another advantage of them is that you can hold them up as a shield to protect yourself while you drape it over the burning thing which can be an issue if the pan really gets going. They are pretty cheap and last forever (until used at least)
@@zyeborm every damn time I visit a store I look at it knowing I really really should have it but never can quite afford one.
@@zyeborm in shops it's some 20-30€ but such is the life of a student in this economy.
I have a thing of salt by my stove now too
@@Userhandleidk Get a fire blanket. A lot more reliable than salt and it never cakes up into a brick. Also if you get a huge, massive fire you might not have enough salt to cover it.
Two of my sisters had an oil fire when cooking popcorn. They both dashed over to the sink, stopped, looked at each other, and simultaneously yelled "No!" before one grabbed the extinguisher and blasted the stove to hell.
Thank you to my mom for making us repeatedly watch a grease fire safety video when we were kids.
The Mythbusters did a very nice episode on this very topic, showing quite nicely why you don't use water to put out grease fires (well, unless you happen to have a helicopter and a bambi bucket). The other fun one from them is the water heater rocket. And that is why you don't tamper with the safety devices on your water heater.
Tossing in a grenade would have had the same effect: you can't have a fire if you've blown to pieces and scattered anything that can burn.
I took some comfort from that episode. It reminded me that if a water heater does explode, you've either seriously screwed up, or you wanted it to explode.
@@Yonkage-ik5qb naw, one really can use one demo block of C4. Pop the blasting cap in, place the charge and deonate, the instant fireball from hell finishes the job far more effectively than trying to dilute the raging oil fire with gasoline.
The water heater rocket episode is hands down my favorite episode of Mythbusters. It actually did go through the roof!
Recently saw a video of a girl doing a livestream from her kitchen while cooking. The pan started on fire, and she panicked. She started going “I don’t know what to do!” And then she picked up the flaming pan and put it in the sink and ran water on it, and made it worse. The whole time I was sitting there like “That pan got a lid?” Thank you thank you for being a fire fighter. You’re an essential part of our society.
Ah yes, she became a meme iirc.
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Some people just shouldn't be allowed to cook
god I remember that clip
so fucking funny
I had experienced grease fire during my Chef -ing days. The Girl was rushing to fill up a bucket of water I was screaming WET TOWEL ! WET TOWEL ! LOLs Good times .
In emergency situations the amygdala response in your brain (fight or flight response) can inhibit your ability to consciously think (prefrontal cortex). So putting water on a grease fire can actually happen to anyone, because the knowledge "don't put water on grease fire" might not be accessible in a state of panic. Our brains are wired to "act fast, think less" in these situations.
GF(grease fire)- *visibly angry*
BF(pours water)- calm down
GF(even bigger grease fire)- "I AM CALM!!!"
🤣
Here, take my water extinguisher!
I like how GF can be both an acronym for grease fire as well as girlfriend... it is as if they are connected
@@l.merbecks8144: How do you see this ending? Put down the mouse; back away from the keyboard...
Think like a 1st responder: Grease fire/girlfriend? Which is the greater danger/threat? Who/what do we douse 1st?
Last words you'll never hear from fire/ems: Stop acting crazy. If she isn't crazy, congratulations, you're the igniter. If she is crazy, you're the oxidizer. And no, you can't smother her, either... Exhibit A: Ex was a hot smoking mess...
@@nrtwitty: Would Jason make a credible defense witness. Just visualize him on the stand...
So here are the rules for oil fires:
- Act *SWIFTLY*
- *NO WATER*
- Turn *OFF* the *HEAT* source
- *STARVE* it of *OXYGEN*
@Yabobe O'Boyle unfortunately no
@@friigidspork7171 I dunno, if might intimidate the fire enough for it to put itself out
@@richardmillhousenixon He has to try it some day, otherwise we will never know man...
@@BadDayLp someone needs to break into their house and put a pan of oil on their stove so we can finally know for sure
@@richardmillhousenixon you can’t win against fire in a fight, they’re really good at close quarters
This was one of the first thing we learned at school, don’t feed the fire, suffocate it! We used to laugh, but now as an adult I wish everyone could remember those lessons. 😳
im kind of glad i grew up in construction with a navy vet dad. Learned the basics of fire safety before i was old enough to drive along with some basic first aid.
"Grease fires are the most common household fires, but few people seem to know how to put them out"
I think I found out why they are the most common
that's a very very good point actually......
Well, no. They're the most common because oil is one of the things your average person brings up near it's combustion point on a regular basis.
Few people know how to put out electrical fires, but that doesn't make them happen more often.
@@musewolfman putting out electrical fires is easy and we teach it to our kids early in life. Call 911 and pray to God the fire department gets there fast.
there really are people on this planet who live in 1st world countries and who don't know that you shouldn't extinguish an oil fire with water? I do not get it. I thought everyone knew that.
@@alithekat1599 Well yes, if its already to a point where it's out of your control and has grown too large.
Otherwise, if possible, try to QUICKLY flip the breaker off to cut off all power to anything in the building, and utilize an extinguisher to douse the fire.
No need to throw in the towel IMMEDIATELY unless it's just too much for you to handle alone.
Many industry friers even have a cover specifically for fire. They can be found either as a pullout at the back end or as a slide-in that should be kept nearby. The problem, as our fire expert here has pointed out, training often doesn't go into fire control beyond "there's an extinguisher here somewhere" and I've met long-time managers of restaurants who also believe water always beats fire or, that you just let it burn itself out.
you might get away with letting a fire in a frying pan burn itself out, but there's a whole heap of fuel in a deep fryer.
heh, when was the last time the chimneys were cleaned of all the grease and crap that fills them up? Letting a fire like that go is a great way to get a chimney fire and those things *suck*
"Pullout from the back" So you have to reach through the grease fire? Seems kinda dumb...
industry friers are ussually connected to an Ansul system. it's all fun and games until your store has to close down for a week to clean the entire store due to an ansul situation.
Honestly, when it comes to oil fires, letting it burn itself out is probably a better option than putting water on it. At least if it just burns, it's under a hood and might not spread too far. If you put water on it, it WILL spread all over the place.
First grease fire I ever had, I heard a small *foom* noise. I turned around and saw the grease trap was on fire. I definitely stared at it for a few seconds... Then I fished out a big lid and smothered it. I stared at it the second time it happened too. Just... Mildly confused as to why my kitchen was suddenly on fire
“That’s not where fire goes!”
@@DeathnoteBB "Error... Recalculating"
"Hmm. That wasn't there before."
"Instructions Unclear: Pan on fire."
"the trapped grease made a daring escape plan"
Lol, love the end, years of training indeed. Reminds me of a story. I went to visit my mom once, and her roommate was cleaning up a mess on the kitchen floor. He told me he had been cooking, and the oil in the frying pan caught fire. He picked it up, and panicking, tried to dump it in the sink. He dropped it on the way, and it flipped upside down, and put itself out when it hit the floor. All I could think to say was 'hey, whatever works man!'
Grease fire starts
Those two guys:
O B S E R V E
Gotta learn how fire works, even if it costs us our jobs. Or our lives.
@@Kana_76 To be fair, I'm right there with them after 9 hours of rush
Collecting scientific data
Yo imma check it’s vibe
B A D V I B E ! ! !
"Dude how cool is this"
Step 1 : turn off the heat
Step 2 : put on lid
Step 3 : order food
Lmaooo
Lmao 🤣
Just the end smile 🤣
oh boy if i ever have a grease fire i will follow these steps ... all of them ! :D fire? time for pizza!?
Use backing soda to
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Ima be honest that explosion was a LOT bigger than I expected.
check out the Mythbusters episode on grease fires, one cup of water torched an entire room.
@@j.c.cannon2112 holy crap really???
It was a lot smaller than I expected, they were very lucky.
It always is.
They always are. I'm amazed that some people in food service don't understand this..... This was part of my training before I was ever let into a kitchen
I saw this video when it first came out and shortly thereafter made the dumb decision to preheat an oiled pot while cutting the meat. It took longer than I expected to cut the meat, but when the oil caught fire I didn’t hesitate or panic but knew to just put the lid on the pot. All the apartment needed was to get aired out. I just noticed this video and realized I needed to say Thank you!
Not mentioned... In the video a fire-supression system is clearly visible inside the hood, all they had to do is activate it. However that does mean that the employer actually trains kitchen staff about what it is and how to use it.
Also when you can't put a lid on it:
- Baking Soda!
- Proper (not water) fire-extinguiser (that you should always have, and know where it is).
Yeah I think those fire suppression system are supposed to active automatically now, not sure though. Would have been interesting to see the rest of the video to know if it activated.
It was probably a “this fire suppresser is expensive, don’t ever touch it.”
Late to the party.
As someone who's always worked in cooking retail, but moved from business to business, I can say they do half of what you expect.
You are taught what things do, where they are, what and what not to use.
You are then told not to do any of these things, and to leave the building instead.
Essentially, always provided the information needed to prevent and subdue a fire, but told to never do it. Some of it will be health and safety, some of it will be insurance-based… Like if you've had training that told you to put out the fire, but you die, there's likely a lawsuit there. And if the fire engulfs the building, there's likely fire insurance to cover it.
This is in Scotland though, I obviously can't say the same for the country/state this film is located in, and it does look as if they haven't been trained for this (or ignored training).
Yes, for grease fires you need a "K" (silver) extinguisher, iirc. Most places only have "ABC" (red) extinguishers. But the store I worked at had the extinguishers and fire suppressor in the hoods of all of the cooking stations and actually showed us the "PASS" method video (but told us only a supervisor was to handle the extinguishers. WTF?)
@@KitsuneMiko383 Could you use a class B extinguisher for a grease fire?
A few helpful hints:
1. In general, fires require oxygen, a heat source, and a fuel.
2. The CORRECT way of extinguishing a fire is to REMOVE at least one of these components, not add anything.
3. For electrical fires, try to turn off the source of electricity. For grease fires, cover the fire with a nonflammable lid. For campfire/wood fires, dousing the flames with water is helpful, but a fire extinguisher is your safest bet just in case there are exposed live wires/oil.
4. Only try and handle SMALL fires on your own. If the flames are spreading too quickly or the fire is too large, CALL the fire department.
just want to point out that by the time you have a fire it is its own heat source
also SMALL is relative
Note: If you ABSOLUTELY KNOW that the electricity is now off and can't come back on, you no longer have an electrical fire. Water is then okay IF there are no other reasons water is bad.
If you don't have a lid for a small grease fire, can't you pour a shot ton of salt on it? I thought I read somewhere about it
Baking Soda
@@Supremax67 sorry no, baking soda, corn starch, and flour actually are small particulates that cause fire bombs due to their thermal properties. Use salt or sand since the makeup of either is resistant to heat.
I put one out in a restaurant. I heard the kitchen yell and then heard the sound.
I ran over and yelled *NO WATER. TRUST ME* we used a bucket of seasoning salt and a big ass bowl on top of it.
This is a really important comment. My mom is not the brightest crayon in the box, but I'll never forget when she forgot the convection oven was on and I came by to see it on fire when I was 9 years old. She acted so fast, DUMPING salt all over it. I was shocked, but it worked, and all we lost was the oven itself. Salt works wonders.
@@RWAsur: 1st rule: Keep your wits. 2nd Rule: Work the problem. Kudos to both.
@@RWAsur your mom is a very intelligent lady. I hope you are taking notes!
@@RWAsur Sodium Bicarbonate is also a great extinguishing agent!
Jed-Henry Witkowski yep. Good ol baking soda
Once when I was frying french fries at home the oil boiled over into the burners. Luckily I acted on instincts I didn't even knew I had, and I quickly turned the burners off before the oil reached the fire. Thank you Worst Cook in America for showing all of us the best ways to create kitchen fires so the chefs could show us how to put them out. Yay!
Worked for chick-fil-a for 13 years. put out almost a dozen grease fires. open fryers are bit more of a hassle, but pressure fires are easiest, and i still had people just stare at it in disbelief. i always quizzed my guys on putting out fires and where extinguishers were. never had to use the Ansul system fortunately.
Good job on drilling your crew on it. That kind of thing you don't want people to have to think about. Having them just know it means a fire isn't a big deal it's just a little fire, you do this and put it out. Gold star.
Damn, should have let the fucker burn down
I do the same at the gas station I work at.
also explaining co2 measuring and that we have to fucking open a window from time to time.
still every time I come in the display shows not only harmfull, as in lower brain activity, but actually toxic values.
sure is hard to understand the world we live in.
Ansul system makes one hell of a mess. Less than the FD dropping the ceiling though ;)
We had an maintenance guy set our Ansul system off one time. It took us 6 hours to clean up! I can see why their so effective!
Different types of common extinguishers:
Class A- anything that makes Ashes (wood, paper, cloth, etc)
Class B- anything that can Boil (grease, oil, gasoline, etc)
Class C- anything that is Charged (electricity, outlets, batteries, etc)
Class ABC- anything that Ashes, Boils, or Charged with electricity.
Class D- metals than can burn because they Dent (magnesium, lithium, aluminum, etc)
Class K- better for Kitchen fires that can boil (grease, frying oil, etc)
Nobody has ever explained ABC to be that way before. I do know the difference but A-Ash B-Boils C-charged would have really saved me some damned time! Thank you. I'm totally using this from now on.
In this case ABC doesn't work. You need a class K extinguisher
@@petesoutdoor it still works. B works on grease fires. K works better and is for large grease fires. I always remember k for kitchen but I know b will put out a household grease fire. I'd bet a b would have been fine for the fire in the video in it's early stages (it looks like the vat is mostly empty).
@@petesoutdoor
A Class K extinguisher is ideal due to it’s ability to form a foam blanket over the grease but a Class ABC extinguisher will work if a Class K isn’t available.
Yo that's the easiest I have ever seen that explained. Thanks!
This is what happens when you have teenagers cooking food and the “manager” is the 17 year old who has been there the longest time, 6 months...
The manager's job is to speak to Karen.
Apparently I'm more intelligent than some people in a higher grade than me, cus I knew grease fire + water = big uh oh since I was like 9. Oh well I guess it's more important to learn that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell than basic fucking kitchen safety
@@Sp00kq Just because you know one thing somebody else doesn't does not make you more intelligent than them.
@@Sp00kq I knew that too!!! I thought that everyone knew that
At least where I live, I remember the Fire Department coming in and teaching us how to deal with different fires when I was like 12.
Same idea: I’ve always been taught to reach for a flat cookie/baking sheet to smother a fire. That or baking soda. Thank you so much for the refresher though, it’s too easy in a panic to mess this up.
Thanks for this comment. I hadn't been taught how to deal with a grease fire before (just that you don't add water to a grease fire) and was thinking that I don't have lids for any of my frying pans and my pots have mostly glass lids (which is not good for fire suppression). I do have a few baking sheets and a pizza pan that certainly will work in this case.
We think that it *should* be fairly intuitive, but it's not when no one has taught you. And during an emergency situation, when one is panicking, it's not the time to work out how to do something you haven't been taught. Some will be lucky or clever enough and get it right, but most will hesitate and do something wrong, and in a situation like this, wrong can kill you. The best way is to learn it ahead of time and hope that you will remember it when you need it. A memorable demonstration is extremely helpful and preferable to first hand experience, which is the most effective teacher.
lemme tell you as someone who works in a restaurant watching that dude walk up with a bucket gave me the kind of jolt of fear you can only have when someone is about to do something tremendously stupid and life threatening.
i get that jolt pretty much several times a week. love my staff but them kids are gonna put me in the grave.
I am slowly but surely coming to the realization that, after humanity has eliminated virtually all natural selection pressures, we definitely need some artificial ones to weed out the non-adaptive members from our gene pool. 😂😂😂
i started going into ptsd infused yells about using a bucket of water on a grease fire....... so i completely understand.
@@RustyDust101many of my gripes with rules and regulations boil down to just that lol. At some point, we have to let natural selection do it’s thing, we can’t keep trying to fight nature forever
@@DaTimmeh i have to admit i became 10x better at handling fires after i accidentally burned my eyebrows off being an idiot and leaning over a gas grill trying to light it with an open flame
@@arthas640 It's the best way to learn a lesson lol. Really gets burned into your mind ;)
That's a commercial kitchen. Why haven't the extinguishers in the hoods turned on yet.
I know right!! I was thinking the very same thing.
@@dougsullivan3564 maybe It was an old kitchen. The one I worked in is not even 2 years old.
Yeah, we have them in our apartment under the hood for the stove.
@@lovelight6973 that's cool.
When I worked at a fast food restaurant we had a dry powder fire suppression system in the grill, not in the deep fryer. We had several fire extinguisher on hand though including a class K one that was used when said deep fryer caught on fire one day.
to anyone joking that they're staring, yes it is funny. but I'd like to point out that they were calm. this could have gotten much worse a lot faster had they panicked.
that being said, they're still idiots
"uhh, what did you do?"
"Nothin'"
"Just put water in it, we gotta get these orders ou-"
Where was the fire extinguisher tho? It's a restaurant not a house so one should be there yet they're just staring at it like I did when I was 11 and hard a grease fire (didn't end well, still got burn wounds as proof)
@@ThexDynastxQueen can't afford it probably, that's why they went for the water.
@@knighthunter1791 I figured legally due to inspections they'd have 1 but inspections aren't always surprises so not having 1 or more all the time that can handle a restaurant kitchen cause of cost would make sense. Employees maybe also weren't trained to use it like how I was 11....which is very sad and dangerous.
@@ThexDynastxQueen I don't know how to use a fire extinguisher, but I know how to close lids.
one time my cast iron pan got too hot and as I put some oil in it it instantly lit aflame. I picked it up with a towel around the handle and put it outside on concrete, then put the towel over it and it instantly extinguished. I was so proud of myself for thinking and acting as fast as I did.
Basically if Donut Operator was a firefighter and not a cop. But. More energetic which is great.
I would say more like Angry Cops
But doughnut has a better mustache!!!
@@markmcculfor6113 stole my words from my mouth.
With a hint of Matthew santoro
Yeah this is angry cops
I learned this and fire safety as a child in the 80s. There was a real push in the early grades at that time for kids safety education for Fire, Poison & Strangers. I'm amazed at how many people don't even know the basics of stop drop and roll, or cover & smother flame.
In todays progressive school system, teaching the children about CRT and the sexual preferences of LGBT%HNVF+-O people is far more important than making sure they know how to handle common emergencies.
Huh. I learned this in the early 2000s.
My school told me alot about fire safety, I don't get where you people come off thinking it's "not taught in schools". unless America really is falling apart, I wouldn't know I'm a Canadian and our schools system is decent.
@@freeman2399 I thought it was the bush era change of incentives to essentially only prepare them for the next standardized test?
@@Olivia-W I don’t believe he is saying it’s not taught today. In the 80’s and 90’s it was a much broader campaign in school is all.
When I was at university the local fire department put on a great demonstration of this principle. They had a saucepan full of oil burning and dunked a glass of water on it with a big pole (safety first!). Wow, did that great a huge fireball fast. Definitely a good lesson for dumb students.
you can also get a fireball by throwing water on a stack of little candles that have been burning abit to create that pool of liquid wax
They should be doing this demo way more often, in school and such. I saw them doing it 30 years ago as kid at a fire station open door type event, still remember it vividly. Big ball of fire stays fresh in memory, who would have thought ?
This should help ruclips.net/video/48Dc7bqU_Dg/видео.html thank God chip pans are largely a thing of the past
@@iNinBreak Ah, the classic. My Midschool chem teacher was (allegedly, pretty sure he talked that one up) banned from all but the oldest and most (ab)used chem teaching room, because he loved to demonstrate the liquid wax + water trick to essentially every class at least once. He had already ruined that room's ceiling, so it was the only room where his 'fun' showcase experiments wouldn't do any further harm.
Why call them dumb if they simply don't know? That's ignorance, something we are all born with and have in subjects we don't encounter often or aren't familiar with. Stupidity would be assumption or attempting to do something without knowledge on it, and therefore making the situation worse.
My mom already knew exactly how to put out grease fires at an early age. Not sure if she learned it working in a cafeteria, her parents, friends, or what. But she taught me to never use water on grease fires. I think she used baking soda one time when putting out a fire on a stove since it was the quickest, closest thing. But yeah, never had to use this knowledge but good to know. I love these videos. Comedic and teaching good lessons.
I'm lucky enougth to have had training as a chef in fighting a grease fire . The best way to do it is pray to the elder gods while sacrificing the youngest team member in the kitchen then you curl up on the floor in the fetal position and hope the fire gets bored and moves on to another kitchen
This sounds very intriguing! You MUST do a video on this method! think of the lives that could be saved, say nothing of the money saved on firefighter/EMS pay!
@@inconnu4961 unfortunately you can only learn the incantation from a level 5 elder chef . Its very complicated and involves 15 different languages some that have gone extinct. The sacrificial knife of Vernen the dumb the first chef to pour water on a grease fire becoming the first victim and his knife I used to offer the youngest team member to the fire out of respect ...... if you think this is interesting look up the axel system its an automated fire suppression system that sprays the area in a foam made from blended up babies and the souls of un named soldiers that are still lost on the ww1 battlefields of Europe
Shoulda fed the fryer its daily ice :(
@@acid3129 blended babies is where I draw the line 😂
@@zaza7594 they do a vegan option but it involves digging up Rwandan genocide mass graves and using the soil to power it instead of babies . I prefer the old method of throwing puppies into the grease and letting their coats soak it up
Okay, time for my fire story. It was the summer before my senior year of college, and I decided to take the summer semester cell bio class.
We'd been working on counting and plating cells under sterile protocol (read: bunson burner) all week and since it was a senior level class, we actually took it seriously and were generally responsible. Our professor nipped upstairs briefly to check on an experiment he was running and left the TA to keep an eye on us.
I come back from the microscope closet where I was counting cells to hear an alarmed *"Uhhh..."* from my lab partner. She's staring at our sterile fume hood, where the PET plastic sample tray had gotten too close to the flame and caught fire.
It was melting while burning very cheerfully.
We stared at it a moment.
She switched off the burner.
I carefully reached in and moved the rest of the flammable stuff away from the flame.
We called the TA over and he joined us in staring at the flame. We all knew water was a bad idea...but what were we supposed to do instead??
Naturally, this is when we discovered the teacher was gone.
We stared at it another moment - half the plastic stand was consumed now - and then the TA got the fire extinguisher.
It put the fire out!
It also got melted plastic & fire extinguisher foam all over the $4000 fume hood.
And this is how I learned you should smother a grease or plastic fire with a lid, beaker, or something else FIRST of you can, and reach for the fire extinguisher SECOND
Check the material of the lid/cover just in case. I had a classmate melting plastic with a cheap aluminum setup when he let the plastic get too hot and the plastic caught fire. He immediately put the cheap aluminum lid on it - which melted clean away after a second or 2. He eventually did get it out, but it was a little hairy for him and his friends nearby.
Honestly water probably would have been OK. It's only when you have significant quantities of liquid (or loose powder if you wanna get spicy) that you're going to get a steam explosion like this. Burning a plastic tray isn't going to have a large liquid volume. A thing you can do if you're stuck and water is your only option btw is *mist* the water, if the water boils/evaporates before it hits the burning liquid it won't do the big flame ball trick. but will still take the heat and some of the air out of the fire triangle By mist I really do mean mist btw, not droplets or sprinkling water etc. But file that under Plan-C.
@@zyeborm that's a really shitty solution! No-one has a water mister that can do that job safely unless they're already got a water mist fire extinguisher! Even a tiny drop of water into hot oil or fat or liquid plastic will cause a steam explosion.
I know this, I've done it.
You'd do better to let it burn than almost certainly accelerate it.
@@NigelTolley I mean it's worked for me more than once. Just with a garden hose and the mist setting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a great plan, but it might be the least worst option.
Wow, thanks for the book in the RUclips comments I don't plan on reading
For food service workers, if your place is properly equipped you should also have a Class K fire extinguisher (or hood system above the grease frier). As the video indicated water is BAD for a grease fire and using a normal extinguisher will just spread that beautiful beautiful burning grease, even more, so using the right extinguisher is crucial...also be aware of how your hood system operates, it's easy to assume it will kick on automatically but many may require you to pull a switch mounted somewhere nearby in order to activate it (we had this happen at a kitchen around where I work cause everyone including the chef assumed it was automatic until inspector indicated that wasn't the case).
Oh for a bonus round, even if grease isn't burning if it's HOT treat that sh*t like uranium cause if that spills on you or someone else during the process of moving it no amount of plastic surgery will probably be able to undo the damage it can do...if you want to be scared straight just look on youtube, there are videos that will disturbingly drive home the danger and damage of hot grease. Always use proper PPE, and always announce where you're moving if you're in a busy kitchen and moving behind someone.
I work in fast food and we are always told not to use that system bc it costs £4000 each Time you use it and we get fired if we use it😭😭 I’m calling the manger and letting him presss that shit I don’t get a salary he does
This the stuff they NEVER teach on orientation or anywhere else for that matter. I say they should use the color system cause most stores only have one type to fight basic fires while also housing other chems in the back warehouse. Whose gonna remember!
dont need to look it up. My father managed to pull a deep fat fryer onto himself as a toddler. Presumably he wanted to see what was cooking but tried to use the cord to pull himself up. He's still got scar tissue all over his body from that.
@@k4qsf831 Well if your company is that stupid, then they deserve calling the fire department that will cost them a few thousand dollars more for sure
@Benjamin Bierley can you tell me what a class k extinguisher is? I'm from germany so I don't know what this means. I know there's normal extinguishers with foam, there are special wipes for kitchens to put out fires and there is this CO2 extinguisher we've had in our workplace (car workshop). is this class k the CO2 thing maybe?
I also love the fact that there is a fire extinguisher in the top right corner
Instructions unclear...
Step 1: Could not turn heat off of wife
Step 2: Put lid on wife - Wife got angrier (?)
Step 3: Order food but locked out of the house.
You forgot step 4: Stare at her to assert dominance.
Show her that you got food and everything will be back to normal
Dude, she skipped the couch option?
Brother, you need to go buy a new wife
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I've always known not to put water on a grease fire, but I never knew why it makes the fire worse. Thanks for the explanation!
Okay, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Yes, I am a fireman, but I used to run a kitchen. Looks like these people were cleaning the fryer and didn't shut off the burner when they drained the oil. You usually realize it pretty quickly cause of the smoke but I guess they didn't. In my kitchen, I totally did the same thing but I caught it immediately and dumped a bucket of water in that I had ready for cleaning anyway. Looks like a couple of unsupervised teens that have never had to work with the fryer alone.
I do remember something about cleaning the friars of the right way so that you wouldn't start a kitchen fire
I'm curious as to why the suppression system above the fryer didn't kick off? Did they not have one?
@@sgttau977 they have plastic tabs that need to melt first.
@@sgttau977 Every system is set up different and without seeing their hood I couldn't say. But I know for my place (It was much older) we only had a retrofitted Ansul system that only had a pull station. I've never dealt with a system that had heat sensors in the hood but they do exist and I imagine a facility that looks that new probably has them. Even if they have them though they probably aren't set off until 180+ degrees or so since the hood does already get extremely hot with normal operation.
@@cowboycody8094 Thanks. I saw that in a later post after I commented.
This guy is got 80s energy 👏
Not many people have life in em like this dude anymore !
firefighters are a rare breed it seems haha
Yeah, Ronnie Raygun kind of burned that energy out of us.
U gon get called weird for being like that. 😂
Grease Fire: Panik!!!
Splashes Water: Kalm
Bigger fire: *(PANIKK)*
Matthew Klepadlo
*slurps up boiling oil with a metal straw*
*explodes into inferno*
Kulm
You know, I think the most important lesson is honestly the "call 911" part, because it applies in general. Even if you do manage to put out the fire yourself, it won't hurt to already have a dispatcher on the phone, because if things go bad, you want the fire department to react as quickly as possible. Sure, there is the potential chance that you don't end up needing help, and you will have taken time away from a dispatcher who may potentially have gotten a different call at that time that nobody else was available to answer.
But unlike with a prank call, you didn't waste that time for nothing, because it was equally as possible that you would have needed help, and it that case waiting would have taken valuable time away from yourself. Also, the dispatcher can advise you, for example screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" when you tell him you are going to pour a bucket of water into a burning deep fryer.
Ideally, when you have two people as in the video, one of them tries to put out the fire while the other one calls 911. This way, you make sure you aren't wasting time no matter how the situation pans out.
The dispatcher may also be able to provide tips. Hopefully the dispatcher knows which types of fires the caller should NOT put water on.
Okay... SO on most "human sized" fires, it's all well and good to get it put out by any means necessary... BUT for dubiously large blazes, do you know how to conduct a proper "overhaul" of the scene after the flames are out??? Do you have appropriate equipment (like a Flir device) to help seek out hot-spots??? What about a proper "overhaul rake" at the very least???
Might be able to lick the fire initially, but there's a point where you should probably just go ahead and have the guys roll out and get through that tedious part of making sure you're not suffering a false sense of security and about to deal with a flash-over. ;o)
Or if you’re a kid or minority or poor, it’s probably a good idea to keep the fire and medical emergency direct numbers in your phone. Which can also be a little faster than going through 911 dispatch
"pans out" haha
Yep. If the confused workers had called 9-1-1 immediately, they would have been told to smother it or use a fire extinguisher, and to absolutely not put water on it. Being that they stood around for about a minute before dumping water on it, they had plenty of time for the call. The fire wasn't getting bigger until water was thrown on it.
Once, in my youth, I started a grease fire (oil left in a pan on the stove). I knew water was bad but blanked on what to do, so I opened the patio door and yeeted the pot into a snowbank. I see now that putting a lid on would have worked better.
When I was little my class had a field day at the local firestation. There was a firefighter that told us stories, we got to see the firetrucks and we were taught about fire safety. Not only that, we got to be smoke divers (a fun pretend activity but still). I remember that day and what we learned vividly to this day.
But Jason are you worried about giving out industry secrets and making yourself unemployed
@@wcresponder you know it
Mark McGibbon 🤣🤣🤣
The common public could never fully grasp the concept of simple/basic fire safety, thus you have job security!
Paramedic here (3rd party EMS), did my student rideouts with various FDs in the area a long time ago.
Most of the calls FD responds to are medical. Fall down/go boom, abdominal pain, excessive nausea/vomiting, and "chest pain" which turns out to be a pulled muscle. Oh, and the occasional MVC. They get SUPER excited when they finally get to go to a structure fire. It's pretty funny to watch. That's why almost all FFs are at least EMT-Bs.
Idiots will always exist
For smaller grease fires (like maybe a frying pan grease fire, not a deep fryer fire) baking soda works really well.
If US do you have fire blankets?
@@mlee6050 Not everyone knows about or has fire blankets.
Shallow frypan fire, anything works well, like a plate or chopping board or your ass. Anything big enough to smother it will do.
@@themudpit621 I thought the idea was to smother the fire, not start frying bacon.
Salt can work too for a flaming frying pan. Also a good reason to clean your hood vent occasionally, you don't want flammable grease building up in there when something starts on fire immediately below it.
I wish this man was all our teachers in school.... We could actually LEARN
with some xanax, maybe
@Good to Go. what
Thats why i am glad I was in the Navy where they constantly trained us how to put out oil and gas related fires that water most certainly can’t put out. You have to take out at least one of the three components of a fire. Heat, Oxygen and fuel. And because the fuel of oil and gas fires is a liquid in many cases, water will only spread the fire and introduce more of the fuel to the fire as the water kicks up for flammable liquid. So you have to smother it or somehow take the heat out of the factor. We used AFFF in the Navy for exterior fires and a halon system for interior fires. A Halon system saps all the oxygen (and sometimes the heat) out of an area and the AFFF (aqueous film forming foam) smothers it to accomplish the same goal of taking oxygen out of the equation.
i love how those guys just stand there and watch it burn like "hm yep that's a fire"
"I think the fries are done but the timer says they're not, do we pull them anyway?"
I've had that same reaction before, actually like a few days ago. i was cooking steak and the fire jumped into the pan and caught the oil on fire and i stood there like yep that's a fire. gave it a few seconds to either ramp up or go down then took it off the stove and 3 seconds later the fire went out. I remember one of the kids looked over at me and screamed fire and i was like yeah i know, im not blind. Just let me deal with it please.
they were hoping it would go down.
While they probably waited too long, it seems like a normal reaction to me.
It's the first reaction of EVERY person, who encounters an uncontrolled fire for the first time
Just a typical reaction. The second reaction is to evacuate after several fire drills.
Luckily, when some tupperware caugt fire at a previous job (the dish stand was on top of the plates in the tiny kitchenette,. doh!) one person soaked a towel and smothered the fire with it.
Electricity, heat, plastic fire, water? Not a good combination normally but it worked, I also don't know if there wera any flames or just melting plastic (which would have caught fire in a few minutes).
The fire alarm was an insistent beeping sound from the alarm box, but there were no other indication that there was a fire. This was rectified within weeks.
At one time, I worked for a fire investigator; he worked for insurance companies. After awhile, I asked him and his wife, "how do you burn something down to make it look like an accident"? He replied, "make it look like you were cooking something and it caught fire and got out of control". He also added, "you have to let all your shit burn....a cooking fire in an empty house immediately looks suspicious". 😉😎
Why would he tell you that? Seems irresponsible to tell people how to commit crime.
@@NoName-ms8jb it was an educational discussion.
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@@felivino6613 Rioters that pass themselves off as some good guy group?
This was actually very helpful I always was told not to put water on an oil fire (I think it's mostly common knowledge) but no one ever says what you are actually supposed to do. Now I know to put a lid on it if it ever happens. Thank you.
Also throw anything similar to flour on it (I think salt and other things besides flour also work, but who has a giant bag of fine salt..? Most everyone has a bag of flour in their kitchen. It’ll smother it/absorb the oil/grease and put the fire out. It’ll smell like hell I’m sure, but if anyone is like me, I don’t always have a lid handy that’ll perfectly fit my pans, especially if I’m frying something, since you typically don’t use a lid in that situation lol
Always keep a box of baking soda next to the stove.
@@katters4368 flour is a terrible idea, do it wrong and you will just create a dust explosion making the problem a lot worse
Yep, whenever I cook I always have a lid ready to go in the event of a grease fire, thanks for spreading this knowledge!
At 1:16 you can see a red canister on the wall in the top right corner of the screen. That is a fire suppression system. Its whole job and purpose is to put out fires!
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I remember when I was a student, working in fast food too.
We were never told these simple steps to put out grease fires.
Of course I learned it later, also on television, Dutch firefighters showed what water would do and the precautions they took should already send a warning. They literally handled the cup of water with a ten feet pole.
The guy in this video adding that water to the burning grease must have had some burn marks on his clothes, I hope he didn't get burned himself.
Why not do what Ryanair does well (in this example)? Simply put firefighting instructions in big, colourful stickers on each deep fryer.
And regular control to make sure the stickers remain clear and if not, replace them.
1. turn off heat;
2. put on the lid;
3. call the fire department;
In that order.
This reminded me of an incident from many years ago when l ran a wee snack bar in a live music pub. The kitchen equipment was pretty old and very basic and the stove was a really old household one with the old spiral elements on the stovetop. We sold pretty basic food as the patrons were mostly there to drink and listen to music but it was a living. I ran it single handed most nights but, Friday and Saturday were busier so l usually had someone to help me and this particular night a new employee was helping me out. She was stirring something on the stove and l was at the counter taking customers' orders. All of a sudden l hear her urgently saying the stove was on fire, this was something that happened so often (busy kitchen, food spills, hard to clean spiral elements etc) l didn't even turn around, just told her to throw some salt on it and continued serving. A few seconds later in an increasingly panicked voice she starts saying, it's not going out, it's not going out. I'm finally caught up enough to turn around and realise that instead of throwing a couple of handfuls of salt on it like anyone more experienced would have done, she was standing there gently sprinkling, by now, foot high flames with one of the salt shakers we gave to customers to take to their tables. Still makes me laugh when l think about it. In case anyone is wondering, I DID clean the stove every night after closing, it was just too hard to do it while the kitchen was open, the fire did go out with a couple of handfuls of salt and no-one was hurt.
Recently found your channel (from your shorts), and this is a genuinely great channel. When I was in the Navy, we went through a lot of fire safety and firefighting training during boot camp as well as regular drills aboard ship, as a fire on a ship can very quickly go from dangerous to catastrophic. One of the things that the chiefs would bang on about during every drill or training session was quickly identifying what type of fire you're dealing with and cutting out at least one of the fuel source, the heat source, or the oxygen supply.
100x more important today too since with things like electric vehicle battery fires you cant just treat them like a normal gas fire. On ships thats super important too since there are so many electric fires. My dad was an electrician on board an aircraft carrier and to this day he's thankful he didnt end up on the USS Enterprise like the Navy originally planned, he said they had tons of electrical fires to put out and each time that meant an electrician making repairs as well as constant reports on why the fire happened to hopefully prevent them. All the chemicals on board also must be fun, especially back in the days where the ships were stuffed with asbestos.
I asked my partner what to do when a grease fire starts... he said "water?"
I was so disappointed...
Gotta dump him for a fireman!
At least you learned this through asking, and not by a grease fire
I think ive known this since i was ten or twelve
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This guy has angrycops energy... the family friendly version...
Wow I'm not the only one!
If angrycops and donut were fused together
That is exactly what I was about to say!!!!!!
Same
One is a fireman and the other is soldier
This video actually works cuz this helped me stop a grease fire in my kitchen. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
smother a flammable liquid to starve it of oxygen to burn; cover the pan with it's properly-fitting lid, get a wet towel (larger and heaver is better - less likely to let air through the weave; don't throw that worn out gauzy old hand towel that looks like a modesty curtain ;) ) or if you've got plenty on hand, smother a small fire with LOTS of baking powder (in olden days there used to be fire buckets of sand on hand nearby something that would use flames)
Not only one but two people didn’t know what to do in this situation. Situational awareness is important at all times in life.
Something tells me this isn't the only time you've told someone to "put a lid on it". Great videos!
I still remember when I had a small grease fire in my kitchen. It was like an out of body experience. I just remember calmly shutting the stove off walking to the pantry, grabbing the box of baking soda and dumping the whole thing on my stove burner (the fire wasn't in the pan grease had spilled under the burner coils) and then sitting down on the floor for a good while
That's what my mother taught us as kids - baking soda. I always keep some in my kitchen now.
Salt also works well. I keep both handy, and a type K extinguisher for if it's more than those can handle. Worked in professional kitchens for more than a decade, you did exactly the right thing. Stay calm, Handle it with a non flammable. Basically what you did was smother the fire. Then Once it is handled, then you can freak out. panic. Whatever you need to do. But handle it first. Well done.
This should help ruclips.net/video/48Dc7bqU_Dg/видео.html thank God chip pans are largely a thing of the past
Use a damp tea towel
The fact that he could've just pulled the trigger for the underhood extinguishers make me think he doesn't have basic fire safety and knowledge.
EDIT: Found the underhood extinguisher, it's the red thing on the right
The fire training is probably on the e-learning platform that only covers one topic a month and they haven't been there for long enough to get around to fire yet or they just cheated.
Working in the grill of fast food, I can tell you that no one is trained on what to do in an emergency. No one tells us what fire suppression systems are installed, how to activate them… they don't even tell you what to do in the event of a fire.
A lack of training all around. We aren't properly trained to do our regular jobs!
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@@dragonfireproductions790 Isn't it weird how I'm learning this through a RUclips comment and not my job?
@@tomahaul nah it's normal
Back when I worked at Mcdonald's on our first day we were taught how to deal with grease fire by putting on the lid, cutting the heat (electricity) of a frying pan. The most important things were that if we didn't know what to do, inform the shift manager (which would probably notice if things caught on fire to begin with) and stay away from the fire. In some cases it is better not to do something than to do something stupid...
Can we acknowledge the entire kitchen went up in flames when he poured the water in
Yup. The oil doesn't burn, the oil vapour burns. When you throw the water in, it boils and explodes in a cloud of steam, atomising lots of hot oil. Congratulations you've now succeded in vapourising more flammable oil! Yay! :D
@@0neMadGypsy Unlucky for them humans aren't made out of metal, like who gives a shit about cleaning the kitchen (you do that anyway everyday, if you work in a place that takes health and safety standards seriously) Kitchens are literally made to be easily deep cleaned, tiles and metal. It's a hose and scrubbing, not that big of a deal. What is a big deal however, is pouring water into burning grease, which is going to react by exploding in the direction of your face, which is flammable, and grease/oil loooves to stick to skin, even if it's burning. His biggest concern is the fire, regardless of how inconsequential you seem to think it is, because that little baby waby fire is burning on top of a few liters of oil.
Also, who on earth works in a kitchen that doesn't clean it everyday? Do you know how much of a safety risk build up grease is? Especially in an environment where you might have open flames, and plenty of things that can ignite grease. Not to mention health risks of operating a dirty commercial kitchen, shameful.
"little pan fire" ah yes, a 4 liter deep frier with flaming oil = "little pan fire"
In 2015, an entire floor of one of my university's accommodation buildings was practically destroyed because a student attempted to put out a grease fire by dumping the pan in the sink and turning on the taps. Okay, the building was old and had seriously inadequate compartmentation, which allowed the fire to spread rapidly, but still.
Adding water will find impressively small gaps very rapidly due to the overpressure.
Bristol? I recalled seeing the case in the checklist thingy I had to do before moving into the university accommodation (in 2016).
@@notthatcreativewithnamessounds like the sort of thing a Bristol student would do.
Must have been a lot of oil. Normally just dumping it in the sink is already pretty enough to extinguish it already, since it shouldn't be all too much about its burning point. But the devil is likely in the details.
2:18 the guy at the back just got left for dead holy shit, imagine just doing your job and your co-worker starts a mini explosion then runs away leaving you to die.
Yeah, but it's worth it for somewhere between $7.35 (red states) and $15.00 (Seattle) an hour.
Every man for himself at that point. He had, what, half a second to react?
@@jasonlarsen4945 It's not worth the money that is paid to the employees. That's why it's going to robotic workers, as a field. Robots and electronics could do fast food prep and take orders for far cheaper and free up humans to do jobs that require more skills and are economically worth the wages. Nobody wants food prices to rise just so restaurants can pay people $15 per hour to do stuff that's worth $5 per hour.
@@matthewmosier8439 Like what? Many, many vocations will die away to human workers. there are computers(programs) that will replace some doctors & lawyers. All vocations are in danger of this encroachment. This is why Universal Basic Income has become such a hot topic!
@@inconnu4961 Universal basic income is one of the worst ideas ever created. It always would lead to more control leveraged using the money being given away. It also (as the extra unemployment benefits proved during Covid) would lead to reduced labor participation due to human laziness. That would in turn lead to forced labor once the problem became unsustainable.
There was a fire safety training at my workplace, and I recalled the demonstration of "what happens if you pour water into a grease fire". The resulting fireball burnt a small tree branch which was about 10 metres above ground.
If you are desperate, a damp towel would do as well, but you have to make sure that it is not dripping.
I love how they seem to revert back to cavemen for a second and just stand there watching the fire like they are amazed by it.
even cavemen know better with how to react with an out of control fire
@@RocketHarry865 is that to "hit female with club, drag to cave"?
I mean, both would have the same reaction: “Well that isn’t supposed to happen.”
This dudes ability to contort and move his face is baffling.
A little Fire Marshall Bill going on there
They ALSO teach that in Fire Academy/EMS school!
Thank you. Watching this video it dawned on me I have never talked to my kids about kitchen fires. Showed them the video, showed them where we keep the fire extinguisher. The difference between a towel or paper protect contacting the burner causing a fire and a grease fire.
I have been in fires before, you would think I would have remembered to teach my kids how to quickly extingish small fires. 🤦♂️
This should help ruclips.net/video/48Dc7bqU_Dg/видео.html thank God chip pans are largely a thing of the past
When I was in elementary school, a guest came to my classroom to showcase various hazards. I don't recall if they were a local firefighter, someone's dad, or just the chemistry teacher, but they taught me useful stuff that I still remember to this day. Including the content in this video.
I was always taught to have an open box of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) (not baking powder) near the stove and if that sucker lights up, dump the box of soda in there. Soaks up the grease so it can't spread, but baking soda also releases CO2 as it breaks down which smothers the flames.
For a giant frier though. You would need an unrealistic amount. I can see it working for homes, though.
You have to be very careful how you use the baking soda, because if you puff it into a lot of dust while throwing/dumping it, the dust will explode.
I think I used salt once, but that was just for a small amount of grease stuck to the heating element that was inadvertently left on during the filter process.
Gotta be careful though. My dad was a volunteer firefighter when he was younger and he told me about a lady who tried to throw baking soda on a kitchen fire and accidentally grabbed flour instead. Not a good time.
@@juliadagnall5816 That would be disaster if somebody did that. Why my wife keeps her flour jars on a corner cabinet at the opposite end of the kitchen behind things, and a full box of arm and hammer baking soda in the cupboard beside the cooking oil with a label that says fire use only. And a 10lbs ABC tucked in the coat closet beside the kitchen. If the soda doesn't work, 10lbs of extinguisher should. :-)
I accidentally started a fire in the cafeteria toaster and I stared for like. Five seconds before I was like OH SHIT FIRE and then grabbed a worker to find a fire extinguisher. And then they stared for five seconds exactly like those people lmao
Lol.
It's just something in the primitive part of out brains that says "oooooo fire"
That's why some things are drilled again and again until you act on pure instinct.
Sometimes our brain just needs a moment to comprehend the information it's getting, especially if we deal with situations to which we say: "Don't worry, this won't happen here."
This should help ruclips.net/video/48Dc7bqU_Dg/видео.html thank God chip pans are largely a thing of the past
Gotta love when a RUclipsr gets straight to the point!
When I was a cook at a nursing home I was cooking porkchops on the flattop and of course nobody emptied the grease trap, so out of nowhere there was a 3 foot high flame. I wasn't sure what to do but I stayed calm and got the maintenence man and he showed me how to properly put it out. Moral of the story is keep calm yes it may be stressful but freaking out makes it worse
what did he do??
The place I worked at before had lids for their fryers. They worked good to keep water from splashing in while cleaning the adjacent fryer. They weren't perfectly sealed but they would have been enough to stop this fire if they turned the fryer off.
Never had a fire in the 20 years I worked there though. But I would have never had a running fryer with oil bellow the heating elements like these guys. There is a little under 1 inch of the elements exposed from what I can see. This causes the oil coating the exposed part to get super heated. I think how long since it has been changed can also make a difference on it's flash point. As it is used the oil picks up more and more food particles. Our's was filtered daily but even then oil usually only lasted 5-14 days depending on what the vat was used for. We used a eye dropper to test the oil every morning. If we forgot we heard about it from the bosses, they valued making a quality product. Surprisingly onion rings killed oil the fastest.
It astounds me that so many people don't know how to put out a grease fire especially in food service. I learned at nine years old by watching Myth Busters and never forgot.
Surely they have to learn it though? I think it was one of the first things I learned at culinary school and I learned it in home economics class, so if they don't teach it before you start working at a fast food restaurant I'm shocked it seems like a must since they're working with oil a lot
@@iced- as I understand it, partly due to the general nature of it and the historically low pay rate it's famous for, food service in that kind of place is often fast paced, hectic, with a fast employee turnover rate, often short staffed amd therefore very learn-on-the-job. It also has a LOT of teens and 20 somethings working in it which isn't inherently a bad thing but sometimes kids don't have the emotional control or attention span that would be ideal for it
You SHOULD have to learn things like safety protocols for a grease fire and basic food safety in detail long before being on a shift with what appears to be only one other equally clueless person, but sometimes things fall through the cracks.
they really need to make some basics a requirement, like how to put out a grease fire and some basic first aid along with the basic food safety guidelines.
@@iced- thats the problem though: home ec is increasingly being removed from schools and a ton of food industry workers, especially at places that do tons of deep frying like fast food, is work done by teenagers and ex-cons who are given little to no training.
Yeah, this happens when you clean the fryer. If you drain it without turning it off it will catch on fire. Always good to have a baking sheet next to the fryer in case this happens. Just be careful when you close the drain, sometimes you'll get a little fireball in your face.
This should help ruclips.net/video/48Dc7bqU_Dg/видео.html thank God chip pans are largely a thing of the past
That baking sheet tip would have been good to have in the video. I'm just picturing some panic-stricken employee yelling, "WHERE'S THE BIG LID??? WHERE'S! THE! BIG! LIIIIIID???!??!?!?!?!?
@@echognomecal6742 LOL, this has happened in one of the kitchens I've working in. Made me look like a bad ass covering the fryer with a baking sheet.
They honestly should make em with lids in case this happens.
@@WeAreClaves Bad Ass for sure! *\0/* Seriously! With all the stupid regulations they make, no one thought, "Howzabout we have a way to quickly & easily smother the inevitable grease fire that one day will surely happen?"
I've had experience with a grease fire recently and remembered this video! Turned the heat off, slammed the lid on the pan and the fire went out instantly! Heart rate took a little longer though
As someone who is almost 40, I've known this since elementary school!
Great video, I've shared with my family after they failed my pop quiz in how to put out a grease\oil fire!
Thanks bud!
This was one of the first things my mom taught me about cooking. No matter what you're cooking never use water to put out a fire if it starts. Smother it with a lid or salt.
What amazes me is the have a hood extinguisher over that fryer and dont use it. All you do is pull the ring and boom, fires out. Although i always appreciate a little job security.
My first thought on something to cover this particular fire, since i don't remember my old job having a lid for the fryer, is to put a baking sheet on top of it, probably roughly the same size
As a trained chef I have seen a few grease fires. And thankfully I knew beforehand, what water will do. So I always grab the first thing in find to cover it. Heavy blankets can work as well. Just make sure it's an old one you don't want anymore.
One time we used another pot that fit inside the fired pan, once it cooled down enough we tried to separate them.... We had to reheat then pan with the oil back to it's flame point to get the pot lose 😅
Also you might want to get a new pan
One time this happened at McDonald’s. One of the fryers weren’t holding correct temp so we drained it and left it like that and one day someone accidentally turned it on thinking they were setting a timer and it caught fire. We just turned off the fryer and it died in like five seconds.
It's also very common to forget to turn off the heating element before draining the oil, or turn it off but not wait long enough for it to cool down. With the bottom panel open and the oil level this low, I'm guessing that's what these kids did.
Now imagine how *costly* it would be to have a liquidsensor that prevents the fryer from firing up (hah) when it's not sufficiently filled...
That’s weird. When I worked fast food we had a dispenser above the fryer that would dispense foam onto the grease if it caught fire. If I remember properly.
I remember that too. I also remembered that the last thing you wanted to do will you were cleaned the hood with it one of those dispenser nozzles because it would go off.
If you look they actually have a fire suppression system hooked up to that hood. Pretty sure it’s actually required for safety codes here in the US.
They just stand there and stare at the fire 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Priceless!
Dude you are hilarious. Thank you for educating the masses in fire safety while making in memorable. I work in fire alarm systems engineering and installation (yes I have seen your video dissing us. It’s ok. It’s true lol) and it amazes me how much businesses don’t understand having a proper and practiced emergency plan. You rock dude. Keep up the laughs and education. QUITE!!
hilarious? I find him annoying it's like i'm watching a kids show
"Ah. Let's just let it burn out...." I've seen a British PSA on grease fires. You don't see the narrator until she says the last line--her face is badly scarred from a grease fire.
Basically there's goddamn bright-red fire extinguishing system LITERALLY above the fryer. JUST. FOR. THIS. CASE.
@@0neMadGypsy nope; there's a bright red handle next to the canister just waiting to be pulled...those systems are less and less going to be automatic, because the sensors need to be cleaned and maintained, and that costs money, and when the company gets cheap and doesn't maintain them, they go off when there isn't a fire, which shuts the kitchen down for the day for cleanup (and wait for the supply company to refill and reset the extinguisher).
Typically there's a a chain or a pull handle either over the fryer (dangling down from the hood) or a handle or button or switch beside the canister like this.
...which only works if your employees *remember* the training session they sat through five years ago...
Had a fire on our kitchen stove one time. Wife started yelling. I walked over, assessed the situation and calmly turn off the burner. Situation resolved.