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Originally Posted by DvlshAngel985  I was home alone, and decided I wanted tostadas with fresh frijoles fritos. (Refried beans) My mom has always been a health nut, so instead of making them in lard as is traditional, my mom taught us to use a little bit of olive oil, you just throw in a dried chile and it adds a very nice flavor. I put in the oil and let it warm up before putting in the chile. Something happened in another room, and I left the kitchen to go check it out. I forgot all about being hungry and went to watch tv. By the time I remembered the oil had completely burned off. Or so I thought. When I moved my small pot, the remains oil caught on fire! I didn't know about needing to smother oil fires. Instead, I put it under running water. *poof* |
OOPS! Now unless they specifically tell us in school that oil fires need to be smothered, how would you know? They teach us stop, drop and roll, but not about what happens in the kitchen! I'm lucky I never caught anything on fire in the kitchen growing up. It was just me and my brother as pre teens. But once my bro put an Arby's sandwich with the foil wrapper in the microwave. He had know idea it would catch fire. Good thing I was nearby and stopped the timer.