Grease Fire
The grease fire was my fault-- I am used to cooking on an electric stove, where it takes a minute or two for an electric burner to heat up, while a gas burner is fully "on" right away. I had put a small amount of oil into a frying pan and then rinsed off 2 pieces of chicken from the fridge, and the oil got hot fast--not smoking hot, but hot enough to spatter when I put in the wet chicken, make oily steam, which in turn caught on fire from the burner flame. Normally I would have just left it to burn out on the stove after turning off the burner, but in a masterpiece of design there is a plastic microwave oven 13 inches above the burner; the fire extinguisher is attached to the back of the cooktop, the lid for the pan was nowhere to be seen; and in the words of Sublime, it was "flaming up good." Since I was wearing long heavy cotton sleeves I just picked up the pan by the handle and stood in the middle of the tile floor, waiting for the temperature to drop enoug...