I'm starting to think that having a fire extinguisher in the house would be a good idea.
Sensibly, we cook using gas here. There's not really any other choice, if you want to eat when there's no electricity, unless you want to cook outside on charcoal. However, our little stove has been having a few issues lately. I don't know what the problem is, but it was a cheap chinese stove to begin with anyway (it was what was sent to us from Uganda :( ), and after 4 years of use in this place, it's starting to show its age. The flames get a bit wild once in a while, and I've been somewhat surprised that I haven't caught anything on fire yet.
Yet.
Until tonight's dinner of sausage flambe! My potatoes were happily boiling on the stove, my sausages were happily frying in the iron skillet, and I was happily chopping an avocado... when the whole kitchen lit up with a rather large flambe from the sausage pan! Thankfully, I wasn't standing right there, or I'd probably be eyebrow-less tonight. I did have the presence of mind to turn off the gas burners right away, and since there was nothing else close to the flames they burned themselves out pretty quickly! But t he thought did occur to me that the closest fire extinguisher (that I know of) on the compound is a pretty far hike (including a stop at the key box to unlock the keybox to get the key to the office where the extinguisher is...). So, I might start thinking about a bit of fire safety here!
Anyway, it was a rather exciting start to our dinner! Thankfully, the flames burned out before they burned the sausages, too, and they were perfectly cooked - hot on the inside, crunchy on the outside! And I still have my eyebrows.
Sensibly, we cook using gas here. There's not really any other choice, if you want to eat when there's no electricity, unless you want to cook outside on charcoal. However, our little stove has been having a few issues lately. I don't know what the problem is, but it was a cheap chinese stove to begin with anyway (it was what was sent to us from Uganda :( ), and after 4 years of use in this place, it's starting to show its age. The flames get a bit wild once in a while, and I've been somewhat surprised that I haven't caught anything on fire yet.
Yet.
Until tonight's dinner of sausage flambe! My potatoes were happily boiling on the stove, my sausages were happily frying in the iron skillet, and I was happily chopping an avocado... when the whole kitchen lit up with a rather large flambe from the sausage pan! Thankfully, I wasn't standing right there, or I'd probably be eyebrow-less tonight. I did have the presence of mind to turn off the gas burners right away, and since there was nothing else close to the flames they burned themselves out pretty quickly! But t he thought did occur to me that the closest fire extinguisher (that I know of) on the compound is a pretty far hike (including a stop at the key box to unlock the keybox to get the key to the office where the extinguisher is...). So, I might start thinking about a bit of fire safety here!
Anyway, it was a rather exciting start to our dinner! Thankfully, the flames burned out before they burned the sausages, too, and they were perfectly cooked - hot on the inside, crunchy on the outside! And I still have my eyebrows.
1 comment:
I pictured you eyebrowless...twas interesting...
Yes! Fire extinguisher. Very important.
Karen P (Canil)
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