Five Cooking Safety Tips
Thursday, August 26th, 2010It’s easy to throw caution to the wind while doing everyday activities like cooking on the stove, especially if you’re trying to manage children and pets at the same time. But too often this happens and results in home fires. Practice home security and safety in one of the most-used rooms with these helpful safety tips.
- Stick around: Stay in the kitchen while you’re cooking anything on a stovetop range, but most importantly if you’re frying food. It’s easy to start doing something in another room and forget you’re cooking something on the stove.
- Set boundaries: Keep anything that can catch fire easily at least three feet away from the range like potholders, dishtowels or plastic bags. Also keep any children or pets three feet away and teach them to stay away from the stove.
- Detect it: Install smoke detectors and an ADT home alarm system with smoke- and heat-detecting sensors so that in case something you’re cooking gets out of control, you, your family and the proper emergency services authorities can be alerted.
- Form good habits: Cook on back burners if possible and turn pot handles toward the back of the range so that small children can’t reach them. Also, keep any hot containers like pans or trays away from the counter’s edge.
- Keep it clean: Always clean your cooking area after you’re done and everything has cooled. Keep grease from building up on the range, microwave and oven.
