What Are Some Smart Cooking Tips For Your Family?

10/5/2022 (Permalink)

What Are Some Smart Cooking Tips For Your Family?

What Are Some Smart Cooking Tips For Your Family?

Your Bellevue kitchen is where fire safety should always be practiced! Kitchen fires are one of the most common sources of damage, and such damage can devastate residents. 

With that in mind, let’s discuss some cooking tips you can follow to keep your home and family fire safe!

How Do I Practice Safety While Cooking? 

Here are some top cooking safety tips for you and your family:

• Never leave food cooking on the stovetop unattended, and keep a close eye on the food cooking in the oven.
• Keep cooking areas clean and clear of combustibles (i.e., potholders, towels, rags, drapes, and food packaging).
• Keep children and pets away from cooking areas.
• Turning pot handles inward so they can’t be bumped and children can’t grab them.
• Wear short, close-fitting, or tightly rolled sleeves when cooking; loose clothing can dangle onto stove burners and catch fire.
• Never use a wet oven mitt, as it presents a scald danger if the moisture in the mitt is heated.
• Always have a potholder, oven mitt, and lid handy. If a small grease fire starts in a pan, put on an oven mitt and smother the flames by carefully sliding the cover over the pan. Please turn off the burner, and don’t remove the lid until it is completely cool. NEVER pour water on a grease fire and never discharge a fire extinguisher onto a pan fire, as it can spray or shoot burning grease around the kitchen, thus spreading the fire.
• You’ll want to keep the door closed and unplug the unit if there is a microwave fire. Food cooked in a microwave can be dangerously hot. Remove the lids or other coverings from microwaved food carefully to prevent steam burns.

What Are Some Top Suggestions For Kitchen Safety In Your Bellevue Home?

• Cooking equipment is often responsible for fires, so your cooking equipment needs to be kept in top condition. Following established cleaning practices and the manufacturer’s suggested usage for all your kitchen equipment - from pans and pots to microwaves and ovens - will help prevent a fire from malfunctioning or accident. 
• The buildup of grease in stove hoods, oven interiors, and around cooking equipment can be hazardous. These kitchen components operate under high heat - and grease plus heat is an explosive combination - so keeping them as clean as possible is another fire prevention practice you can implement. 
• Keep your indoor fire sprinkler system up-to-date to ensure it will work properly if there is a fire. Corrosion can weaken their effectiveness, so regularly inspecting them is essential for preventing fire damage; this is true of your fire extinguishers. Make fire safety inspections a routine each quarter to avoid fires in your kitchen and other areas of your home. 

Call SERVPRO of Huron & East Seneca Counties at (615) 443 1790 if you experience fire, water, or mold damage. We have all the skills and equipment required to get you back to normal as soon as possible, including restoring affected documents and belongings. 

This franchise is independently owned and operated.