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Here are some tips to help you prevent cooking related fires in your home or business.

• Pay attention to your cooking. Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, broiling, or boiling food.

• Children should be taught that cooking equipment, pots, pans, fryers (of all sizes), stove tops, ovens, and microwaves are cooking tools for adults, not items to be played with. Children should be taught to ask permission before cooking. When children reach the age when they start cooking items for themselves they should be taught how to use cooking equipment properly and how to follow cooking instructions on labels.

• Teach teenagers to follow cooking instructions, especially microwavable items. They should not be allowed to toss items into the microwave and turn the dial randomly. Many teenagers technique for microwaving food is by watching and waiting for it to cook. Teenagers are easily distracted and some food items can start a microwave on fire if they are over heated.

• When you are simmering, baking, or roasting food, check it regularly, stay at home, and use a timer. Purchase a portable timer and take it with you if you are entertaining outside of the area you are cooking in.

• If you have small children try to use the back burners and keep hot pots, crockpots, and other cooking equipment, and the cords attached to them out of little ones reach.

• Keep children and pets at least 3 feet away from the stove and any items that can burn. Remember steam can also burn.

• It is important to cook with the proper ingredients, in the proper containers, and for the proper amount of time.

• When cooking with oil make sure you follow the instructions for the cooking equipment it is used in and follow the recommend temperature for heating the oil. Only use the recommend cooking oil for a turkey or any other types of fryers. Different types of cooking oil have become popular over the years and most oils have a different ignition temperature. Make sure you use the proper temperature to heat up the oil, for example, peanut oil will start on fire if it is heated on high

For more tips contact Kellie at 952-960-1692.