Chip Pans Are Dangerous

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

I'll stick to the oven chips bernie. Less dangerous for me.

Suppose if you like them that's all that matters. Don't eat chips all that often, would probably go for the oven ones if I did!!

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by cashman

remember one morning about 5-00, making some toast before going to work, dozed back off on the kitchen stool, and nearly gassed the bungalow out, had even forgot to light the grill. it aint chip pans that are dangerous, its any silly buggar in a kitchen,not being alert/paying attention, that fire cheif is an overpaid clown.

Funny what you remember when you read something, I did that once got up to get my daughter ready for school, lit the grill or so I thought. When I came back into the kitchen I lit the gas under the kettle and the force of the blast threw me across the kitchen. Just goes to show you can never be to careful

[panther]

the ones that go on the oven should be banned, they are the ones that are dangerous, you could easily forget to turn it off, wether your drunk or not! I recommend a electric one

[Mr Aleks]

Originally Posted by jambutty

No they are not. It’s the drunken fools trying to make some chips after a night on the falling down water who are dangerous.

This morning a fire chief was advocating that all chip pans should be banned. His opinion was based on the fact that far too many callouts were to a chip pan fire.

So by his reckoning his next target has to be cars, motorbikes, vans and lorries because they kill and maim more people.

It is time that these jumped up officials just did their job and stopped trying to tell us how to lead our lives.

So its only drunken people who operate chip pans?

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Aleks

So its only drunken people who operate chip pans?

No! The fire chief was using the drunk coming home and feeling hungry as an example to prove his claim that chip pans are dangerous.

[Mr Aleks]

Well that nonsense. Noone after a good night on the lash comes home and puts the chip pan on, they order a kebab with extra chilli sauceand a can of coke that doesnt get drunk till 3 days later.

[flashy]

thats true

[Acrylic-bob]

I don't suppose that it has ever occured to the "Fire Chief" that his job and pension are largely dependent on people forgetting to monitor their chip pans; if there were no fires what need would we have for firemen?

[WillowTheWhisp]

Anything can be dangerous if the person using it isn't in full control of their faculties. Even a deep fat fryer could be dangerous if the person using it knocked it off the surface when full of hot fat. The fire chief is talking rubbish.

[ANNE]

I once spilt boiling fat from the chip an down my legs and I hadn't even been drinking.
Ended up with great big blisters alldown my legs.

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by ANNE

I once spilt boiling fat from the chip an down my legs and I hadn't even been drinking.
Ended up with great big blisters alldown my legs.

Yes accidents do happen when no drink is involved, I think he had a good point in a way if we all used deep fat fryers the element of danger from their point of view must be reduced because anybody can get waylaid and forget about a chip pan. A deep fat fryer will switch itself off whereas a chip pan fire could and has been fatal.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by ANNE

I once spilt boiling fat from the chip an down my legs and I hadn't even been drinking.
Ended up with great big blisters alldown my legs.

What were you doing trying to move a chip pan full of hot fat? That is just asking for trouble.

My chip pan has a lid and when the chips are cooked and put onto my plate I put the lid in place, make doubly sure that the gas has been turned OFF FULLY and go and enjoy my chips. I don’t even think about moving the chip pan until the next morning when the beef dripping or lard has solidified.

I’ve never had a chip pan problem in over 50 years.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Yes accidents do happen when no drink is involved, I think he had a good point in a way if we all used deep fat fryers the element of danger from their point of view must be reduced because anybody can get waylaid and forget about a chip pan. A deep fat fryer will switch itself off whereas a chip pan fire could and has been fatal.

So have cars, motor bikes, vans and lorries. Lets not forget aeroplanes, trains and even ships. Ladders spring to mind.

This jumped up fire chief is just poking his nose into people’s lives.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Yes accidents do happen when no drink is involved, I think he had a good point in a way if we all used deep fat fryers the element of danger from their point of view must be reduced because anybody can get waylaid and forget about a chip pan. A deep fat fryer will switch itself off whereas a chip pan fire could and has been fatal.

our deep fat fryer dont switch itself off bernie, never has.

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by cashman

our deep fat fryer dont switch itself off bernie, never has.

Okay hands up I'm wrong, thought they had a thermostat on that switched off at a certain temperature