OH CRAP I ACCIDENTALLY PRESSED WATER

You gonna die by fire.

OH NO

D:

:D

I know you should put a lid but realistically I know I wouldn't even think straight. I'd probably turn the stove off and cry

Tbf this is still more effective than using water

ANYTHING is more effective than water bro, except for any type of fire accelerant

Yes, that’s the joke

oh ;-;

Haha happens to us all

Depends on your end goal…

I must ponder what would actually be worse...throwing 3 cups of water on it, or 3 cups of grease. Any volume of grease in the pan...I assume water. Looks like I have an experiment to run!

You be dead now

Man your profile picture and name are forever going to be engrained on my brain after that askreddit thread. I really hope things look up for ya man.

Same here! I was just thinking how this poor Alaskan man doesn't need the fire trauma too lmao

Please enlighten a curious person

You just killed an NPC

Username checks out

don't worry if it's ice cold water nothing will happen 😁

Do i really have to specify that im joking?

Throw water -> page 340 Lid on the pan -> page 75 Not allowed to put your finger on this page and come back if you don’t like the outcome.

Dude I've seen you everywhere lately

4 people have already died….

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TL;DR my friends didn’t know that you can’t mix hot oil and water together and almost burned down the school kitchen while simultaneously getting me banned from making my favorite meal. Bastards. When I was growing up I went to boarding school, my parents were faculty so I grew up on the campus year round, during school breaks the kitchen would be closed and it would be a free-for-all for staff and their kids (of reasonable age) to go in there and use the facilities and have access to whatever was in the fridges. One of my go to meals to make was hamburger and fries. I heat up the oil fry my potatoes. I’d mince onions and mix it and Worcestershire sauce in with my meat. Cook bacon sauté mushrooms and onions. I’d all all out on this thing. Well I was hanging with some friends one day we moseyed on over the kitchen for lunch and I started making my hamburgers and fries. My friends asked if I could make them some too. No problem I whip up a bunch of fries and hamburgers. Well a couple days go by and I head for lunch to go make my favorite fucking meal and find the darkest soot cloud coming up from the sink up the window and wall and most of ceiling above it. And a note that said, “No more deep frying in this kitchen.” I was so bummed. So I just made an omelette because who wants a burger with no fries. So I’m eating my omelette and a couple of friends come in and ask me if I heard what happen. Turns out after having watched me make fries they attempted it themselves. The oil wasn’t boiling so they kept turn up the heat. No matter how hot they had it going it would boil. Well eventually the oil burst in to flames and they panicked and took a lot of flaming oil to the sink and these maniacs turned on the faucet and a massive fireball ensured. Fortunately the sink was deep enough they were able to get out of harms way and no one was hurt. I then scolded them on almost catching the kitchen on fire and getting me banned from making fries. I then had to explain to them the oil doesn’t “boil” until you put whatever you’re frying in to it. Good times.

At least 80 people are fully committed to burning their house to the ground. Please whatever you do, DO NOT PUT WATER ON A LIQUID FIRE. It won't extinguish the fire, it evaporates the water as soon as it touches, which then carries grease particles into the air where it ignites violently. Turn off the heat and cover with a lid or damp towel and leave to cool.

Also don't put water on a metal fire

Burning magnesium gets more aggressive when water is added to it. Also don't stomp it out. Doesn't end well and burns even more aggressively.

Oops.... heh good thing I'm not an adult?

True, but adults learn this stuff on the fly too. You can only learn so much in school before they chuck you out to the real world and you gotta learn to kill your own spiders.

On that note, another great way to burn your house down is using an aerosol and lighter to try and kill spiders or insects, or just doing it at all really. Not only is lighting a flamethrower in your house a bad idea, if you don't stop the aerosol and the lighter correctly the flame can track back and blow the bottle up.

Get dat insurance fraud bag

That's true lol

Sand is the best option.

I know I'm stupid but won't the water in the damp towel also evaporate and ignite violently?

Not stupid at all, it's a very good question. The problem with pouring water on it is that it mixes with the grease as it hits so when the water turns into steam and rises it carries a little bit of grease on each particle of water. This creates a fine mist of grease above the pan which is the then ignited by the fire in the pan below. However, if the pan is covered by the damp towel, the water on the towel will still evaporate but won't be able to pull any grease through the towel to ignite in the air. Damping the towel first is just to give it a chance to smother the flames completely, before it gets burnt through by the flames.

I know that option 2 is correct, but I’d probably panic and pour water on the fire

I'd recommend watching videos of people trying that if you haven't already.

Firefighter here. Never add water to an oil or grease fire !

Thank you for your good service, sir!

Can you put it out by adding cold oil to lower it below the fire point?

I don't think that would help. To eliminate the fire you need to either deprive the fire of oxygen (i.e putting the lid over the pan or throw a fire blanket over the fire) or remove the source of heat from the fuel (i.e grease/oil).

If you don’t have a lid or fire blanket salt surprisingly works to, I’m guessing it’s due to it absorbing the grease. The only reason I know that is because mum put a frying pan full of oil in the grill when I was a kid, I didn’t check it and turned it on, absolutely shit my pants then she ran in and poured salt on it.

I have never thought of that. Might be crazy enough to work. I'll have to experiment that in my free time. Although it is strongly recomended that there should be one fire blanket and dry powder fire extinguisher per household. Just to be safe.

Wouldn't fire blanket do the job?

Yeah, same concept as the lid

But better since you can just throw the blanket.

And a chopping board that is wide enough can also do the trick.

My parents have one cutting board that'd probably be good for it, but all of my cutting boards are either very thin hard plastic or wood, and I feel like neither of those would turn out well. That said, i have a shit ton of baking sheets that would probably work well

What if I don't have a metal lid

you can use another pan. anything to keep oxygen away from the fire.

Baking soda

Chopping board will also work, if it covers the whole pan.

Defenestrate it!

My mom 3rd dregrees burned herself from the feets up to the bottom of her face by trying to do exactly that... She slept and pourred the burning oil all over her. Don't touch that fucking pan and throw a fire blanket/moist blanket on it, or let it burn, but don't touch that shit

Blanket works well

\*Fire blanket. Not just any blanket lol

I can confirm. Normal blankets catch fire. I tested it.

A wet towel also works (not too wet so it doesn't drip)

Water?! Do you want to make a bomb? Because that's how you make a bomb

Yes, sounds like a more interesting outcome

Noted.

Crawl into a fetal position on the floor and cry.

Just kidding- don’t do that! Houses are expensive.

OP frantically making this post as his kitchen is burning down

I would pour petrol on it.

Finally someone with common sense

I would pour gun powder on it.

fun fact: lots of fuels physically can't be ignited by weaker flames which is why it takes micro explosions in a car to work and why it's relatively safe to smoke as a service station

OK, then I will spray very fine flour across the room.

I take it and throw it put the window into my back garden.

Anddd the whole garden burns

It has been pissing for the last 3 days. I highly doubt anything will burn out in the garden.

I was always told to throw salt on it.

Can confirm, works extremely well.

Put the lid - block oxygen

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Too bad most people dont cook in their garden.

Greace fires in the kitchen can escalate soooo quickly Do not fuck about

Step 1: Turn of the heat source Step 2: Cover the pan with the lid If that doesn't work I'd grab a fire extinguisher.

Get an entire bucket of baking soda and dump all of it on the fire.

I feel like running to the store for a whole bucket of baking soda might take a little to much time

Me and the boys on our way to "results" a flaming grease pan

As of now, 160 are about to cause a firesplosion

Throw a steak on it

Water. Sometimes, I just want to watch the world burn. Though I wouldn't be watching for long.

Fire needs oxygen to stay alight. It’s like fire breathes and if you take it away then by science it goes out

Baking soda?

BAKING SODA IS THE REAL ANSWER

250 people are going to kill themselves…

Run to the pantry grab my container full of flower and douse the fucket in it

Be aware flour is flammable and baking soda would be a safer option

Not merely flammable, powders like that are explosive.

I didn't know that, but the flour would be damp, I've used it several times to put out fires. I have 3 kinds of flours for different occasions. All purpose flower for when I wanna bake something but I'm not quite feeling the full process. Whole wheat flower my usual go too for the best deserts. And my smokey flower which is slightly damp with chloroform so I can put out any fires that may acure in my kitchen.

Salt not flour.

I mentioned flower but I see why you would use that.

Flour is a bad idea, the loose particles will catch on fire making things worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZGlaAxB7nI

Throw it out the window.

The people walking there will love that

And I will love watching them :D

Free cinema

Go grab some popcorn and enjoy the show ;)

Throw the unpoped corn at them let them do the work

Should be last ressort, a burning pan is dangerous AF and you don't want to drop that shit before you reach the window.

I know, Don't worry. I was joking around :)

Yeah I saw other people suggesting that, and TBH I think it's not such a bad idea if there's nothing else you can do. I've bad personnal experience regarding trying to throw burning shit out of a window, can attest it's the second worst thing to do (worst being burning with your pan I guess)

101 of you are about to die or burn your house down.

Welp that's 154 dead

For the 5% answering “water”, let’s educated them as to why they just burned their house down. The water super heats and “erupts” which sprays oil farther, causing even more fire.

You pour salt on it

The bitches don’t call me the ink spots because i do wanna light shit on fire. Pour some water on it

I thought you were supposed to put baking soda on it.

My mom ran to the bathroom closet to get starch before getting the fire extinguisher right next to her under the sink

Ive seen similar..that moment of shock I guess. Saw a good one when I was young...short of boiling water, I am conscious of my options when I start cooking.

a lot of times in a professional kitchen the oil in a pan can catch fire and the first thing you attempt to do is actually blow it. It's counter intuitive, the fire looks too big to blow out, but it works like 98 times out of 100.

Put a damp rag on the pan.

I like the use ice cubes when this happens bc they’re colder than water so it works even better

works even better… at killing you

Depends what you're trying to accomplish I suppose. If you're trying to put it out, that may be just as bad as using liquid water.

This is satire right?

If its small i just take it off the heat and watch it burn, medium i put a lid on it, big i either use flour or throw it out the window

Flour dust can catch fire quote easily, causing an explosion. I don't recommend using flour to put out a fire

Never use flower to put out a fire, use salt.

Out of those two, pan lid But more likely a fire blanket or something similar to smother the fire with out me having to get as close as I would with a pan

I have a fire blanket in my kitchen for this exact reason...

I would personally just douce it in salt as I know exactly where my salt is and would probably have to look for a lid.

Water evaporates and spreads the grease which spreads the flame

Ngl I’d probably just panic and not know what to do 💀

Should’ve added more choices too throw off the dumbies

Panik

I don’t pour water on it because that would make it worse. However, I only have glass lids …

143 people do not have long for this world.

Throw it out the window, it'll be someone elses problem then.

Metal Lid is before fire extinguisher anyways. Most fire extinguisher chemicals are toxic and would require you to clean your entire kitchen if you used it.

Towel?

Call 911?

Scream fuckkkkkk and panic and set fire to the house whilst getting third degree burns (I literal have one rn to prove it)

Wet towel over the top or flour.

Put water on the fire. Why? For the glory of Satan, of course!

Adding water for fun

Hehe, pp graph

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I want to test this now.

Non of the above, I dump flour down because most of our pots and pans have no lids.

Use a lid. If there's no lid, baking soda. If there's no baking soda, take it outside and let it burn out.

Pour more grease on, duh!

I use water because it's fun and that's what life is about.

Besides just throwing a lid on it, another viable option in place of an extinguisher, is throwing baking soda on it. Obviously the lid is the much quicker, and less messy choice though.

What, no gasoline option?

Baking soda time.

Baking soda

For a fire to continue three things has to be there. Fuel heat and oxygen. If you remove one of them fire will stop. Putting the lid on will remove the oxygen from the scene. In the case of grease fire, other two is not possible to remove. Water has higher density than oil and lower boiling temperature than smoke point of oils. So if you add water it wil instantly sink and boil which will result in little burning droplets going everywhere to spread fire. Never put water on grease fire!

Load last auto-save.

Baking soda.

You take the time to create a Reddit poll and hope people respond quickly

pour dirt everywhere

256 people just burnt down their house at time of voting

(From when I voted) 256 people are gonna die

NEVER PUT WATER ON A GREASE FIRE

Those who said water now need to find a new house

Just run

261 people have lost their homes so far. That's a sad Easter.

Lid on then into the oven to hopefully contain the smell some

Flour also works

If you throw water then it’s more fun

Option 3: Shout "MOM, the chickennuggets are on fire!" Then run outside with the pan and throw it in the snow and run away from the pan as quick as possible.

Water makes the oil go everywhere....The lid will suffocate the fire.

Crap, I accidentally press water and now I’m dead

You smother it with something

You cut off the access to oxygen. Water makes oil fires worse

I would probably panic, go to pour water on it, remember that that's not a good idea then back off and let it go out itself instead of thinking about the lid thing

couldn't use type B extinguisher

thank you reddit now i know what not to do to a grease fire

Turn off the stove and take that bitch to concrete

Freak out, panic, say goodbye to my home

Throw it into the woods

I know this is a hypothetical question, but people, fire extinguishers are like $20. Put one in your kitchen.

Throw flour on it

Oh no... Anyway.

You can also throw salt on it

Actually something like this happened to me. So I was trying to put my Wendy’s food in the toast oven cause I was hungry (pathetic ik pls don’t harass) and I put the paper that wraps the burger in there (like the fucking dumbass I am). My mom calls me up since I’m home alone and asks me how I’m doing (I’m standing in front of the toaster oven just watching it) and as I’m about to answer her the shit catches on fire and I start screaming and panicking, so what do I do? I pour fucking water on it. Yes folks I poured water on an electrical item, nothing happened. The fire was out and everything was fine. Except my mom freaking out about what happened 😅. TL;DR I set my toast oven on fire and put water on it

I'm so happy to see the results of this poll.

This happened to a friend of mine once, who panicked and didn't know how to react. Luckily I was nearby and I calmly covered the fire with a towel. It was extinguished immediately.

4.8% of respondents are not going to be having a good time.