Cooking with Care

• Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, or broiling food.  If you leave the kitchen for even a short period time, turn off the stove.
• Keep anything that can catch fire – potholders, oven mitts, wooden utensils, paper or plastic bags – away form your stovetop.
• Wear short, close fitting or tightly rolled sleeves when cooking.  Loose clothing can dangle onto stove burners and catch fire.
• Always keep an oven mitt and lid handy.  If a small fire starts in a pan on the stove, put on the oven mitt and smother the flames by carefully sliding the lid over the pan.  Turn off the burner.  Don’t remove the lid until it is completely cool.