12 Oct Tips For Stove Top Safety
Putting 3 meals on your table is hard enough these days that it’s easy for safety to take a backseat to the endless menus. Nevertheless safety is essential, prevent your home and yourself from accidents, burns, injury or burns to ensure that the only happiness surrounds your kitchen.
1. Smell Test
Check for any gas leaks in your kitchen. If you detect anything unusual, open the doors or windows and leave the room. Do not switch on your stove in any case. To reduce the risk of a fire, remove leftover grease or food particles from the stove top, as they can cause catch fire too.
2. Wardrobe Test
All good chefs depend on a good apron not just for cleanliness but also for safety. In addition to wearing one, roll up your shirt sleeves, tie back hair and remove any accessory that can catch flames.
3. First Is Not The Best
If you want to be extra cautious, use the back burners instead of the front burners to put more distance between you and hot utensils. Additionally, choose the right size vessels for your burners and turn all handles inward so they cannot be knocked over.
4. Spin and Span
It’s a good practice to keep your stove and platform neat and clean everyday for disease and fire prevention. A clean stove top will help reduce the risk of fires sparked from food debris. Sometimes the food particles that boil over can block the holes of a a burner and lead to uneven cooking.
5. Reduce Human Error
Extra caution can go a long way for the future. Avoid setting boxes, plastic dishes anything except cooking utensils on top of stove burners. Also do no let your empty pan heat for a long time, as it will heat up very quickly, and can be a fire risk.
6. Good Practices
Choose BIS approved rubber tubes, hot plates and appliances. Buy stove knob covers if there are children in the house!
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