We wound the clocks back an hour on Sunday.
We use the time change works as a twice-yearly reminder to test our homes' fire safety devices and replace the batteries in smoke detectors, as necessary.
You might also want to consider adding a HomeHero to your collection of kitchen tools. According to The New York Times, the HomeHero's designers found that people didn't buy fire extinguishers for their homes because they were ugly and unwieldy(!).
The stylish HomeHero is available in Home Depot stores now, but we haven't seen it on their website yet.
What's the fire safety situation like in your kitchen? Tell us after the jump ...
My boyfriend just bought this for our kitchen - it's so cute! I like that we can have it out in easy reach without it looking horrible. It's tempting to hide the ugly fire extinguisher in the pantry, but then it doesn't do you much good in case of emergency.
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My ugly extinguisher is on top of my ugly fridge. Ugly is better than burned up, any day.
Now, if only there were a better way to tell my smoke alarm when I'm baking so that it can *not* go off everytime the oven goes on...removing the battery makes me skitty but having it go off while I'm cooking makes me livid.
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In the kitchen...and on every level of the house. After a minor house fire, one learns to take precautions.
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A few years ago, my bf was at his brother's house and witnessed a small grease fire on the stove explode to fill the kitchen with fire. Luckily it was put out with little damage to the kitchen, but his brother did suffer a small but nasty burn. The bf has kept a fire extinguisher in his kitchen ever since. We store it at the front of the cupboard below the sink.
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This is going to make a great holiday gift!!
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i once put out a small kitchen fire with a particle-dust (not the foam) type fire extinguisher.
the dust/chemical particles got *everywhere*. we spent 3 hours cleaning everything and had to order pizza
many years ago, food that I hadn't cleaned out of the catchpan caught fire, and I used a foam-type extinguisher: it took me 15 minutes to clean up and I was still able to eat the food in the pan.
so....the moral of the story: after that small kitchen fire, my hubby and I bought a foaming fire extinguisher, and now I always keep a large, open container of baking soda on the counter next to the stove. if I had that baking soda there on that day (in the first fire mentioned in this post); it would've been *SO* much better.
just remember: pass:
p: the pin: pull out the pin
a: aim the extinguisher at the fire
s: squeeze the extinguisher
s: sweep: sweep the spray of extinguisher around the fire.
and after using your extinguisher, it should be recharged/checked.
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Apparently I live near a second-rate Home Depot because they still don't have the Home Hero fire extinguishers.
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