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This year, we went over how you can actually make kitchen fires worse by not responding to them correctly. The thing is, though, that a lot of the tips were counterintuitive: When a fire breaks out in the microwave or oven, you want to open the machine to start doing battle, but you shouldn’t. When a grease fire pops up, you want to douse it with water, but you shouldn’t. Doing those things can spread the fire, which is bad news. Keep your doors shut, suffocate grease fires, and study up how to tackle every kind of kitchen fire before it happens.
