Aren’t you supposed to not use water on kitchen grease fires?
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“Aren’t you supposed to not use water on kitchen grease fires?”
Hence the look on the chef, who knows this.
I see you’re right, James; but… then why does the caption say Thankfully they were able extinguish the kitchen fire???
It’s as if one person drew the panel and somebody else, working at cross-purposes, wrote the caption.
A couple years ago I saw a demonstration by a local fire department that showed why (and just how much) you are not supposed to use water on any oil and/or grease fire: they heated a pan of oil until it was fuming enough to light, and then poured some water onto the flames from a safe distance. The water boiled immediately, and the resulting cloud of oil droplets exploded, producing a mushroom-shaped ball of fire at least 12 feet tall. They did this outdoors, of course; in a real kitchen it would have been an instant catastrophe.
I think the INTENDED joke was that squirting flowers deliver very small quantities of water and therefore make for very inefficient firefighting. The cartoonist simply didn’t know that grease fires are not like “dry” fires.
For that matter, those clowns look like the artist had never seen one and worked from a written description. I guess squirting flowers make sense as a clown accessory, but they’re hardly iconic gear like the outsized shoes and tiny cars.
“then why does the caption say Thankfully they were able extinguish the kitchen fire???”
The other 295 clowns, not shown in the comic, proceed to fight the fire properly after the 5 IN the picture clown it up. Thankfully, they (the other 295 clowns) were ultimately successful.
Maybe it isn’t a grease fire? Not all kitchen fires necessarily involve grease. For that matter, the fire itself is also poorly-drawn. It doesn’t look as if anything is actually burning, there are just flames hovering over the poorly-rendered range.
Seeing ‘Overlook Hotel’, I immediately thought of The Shining, which didn’t fit. Am I missing something or is this just another bit of pointlessness?
Didn’t the hotel in The Shining burn? Maybe that’s the reference.
Heh – maybe these are all ghost clowns.
The whole damn kitchen looks to be on fire, and I don’t think anyone cares if it’s a grease fire or not. It’s just a stupid comic strip joke. :)
I’m scared to say that this is one of the most incompetent fail on every level absolutely *nothing* fitting *any* association botched strip I’ve seen, but I’m worried if a I said that I would then find a worse one.
Clown conventions have to expectation or resonance than rat poison conventions or cabbage growing convention. Clowns don’t wear spray flowers as their uniforms any more than toy manufacturers carry water pistols (so why not have the fire abated by toy conventioneers), kitchen fires aren’t a particularly common or expected disasters.
This comic works on absolutely *zero* levels.
But, CiduBill, there are fire department clowns.
They do fire safety programs with kids.
Clowns with black noses and cheek circles. Did the artist run out of red ink?
Oddly, the clowns are less creepy than the regular people in the comic.
I was told that one is not suppose to put water on a grease fire as the grease and water will not mix and the burning grease will travel on the water as it flows around and it will spread the fire.
In the early years of our marriage I put a package of frozen Chinese dinner into the toaster oven to cook it. Apparently the cardboard lid was too close to the heating element and it caught fire. I unplugged the oven and kept its door closed, as one is suppose to do,and the fire went out – and the toaster oven kept working.
A couple of years go by and Robert was heating something in the same toaster oven. The toaster oven was adjacent to a window and we lived on the first floor. It caught fire. Before I could stop him, he opened the window, unplugged the toaster oven and, yes, tossed it out the window. That was the end of the toaster oven.
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“Aren’t you supposed to not use water on kitchen grease fires?”
Hence the look on the chef, who knows this.
I see you’re right, James; but… then why does the caption say Thankfully they were able extinguish the kitchen fire???
It’s as if one person drew the panel and somebody else, working at cross-purposes, wrote the caption.
A couple years ago I saw a demonstration by a local fire department that showed why (and just how much) you are not supposed to use water on any oil and/or grease fire: they heated a pan of oil until it was fuming enough to light, and then poured some water onto the flames from a safe distance. The water boiled immediately, and the resulting cloud of oil droplets exploded, producing a mushroom-shaped ball of fire at least 12 feet tall. They did this outdoors, of course; in a real kitchen it would have been an instant catastrophe.
I think the INTENDED joke was that squirting flowers deliver very small quantities of water and therefore make for very inefficient firefighting. The cartoonist simply didn’t know that grease fires are not like “dry” fires.
For that matter, those clowns look like the artist had never seen one and worked from a written description. I guess squirting flowers make sense as a clown accessory, but they’re hardly iconic gear like the outsized shoes and tiny cars.
“then why does the caption say Thankfully they were able extinguish the kitchen fire???”
The other 295 clowns, not shown in the comic, proceed to fight the fire properly after the 5 IN the picture clown it up. Thankfully, they (the other 295 clowns) were ultimately successful.
Maybe it isn’t a grease fire? Not all kitchen fires necessarily involve grease. For that matter, the fire itself is also poorly-drawn. It doesn’t look as if anything is actually burning, there are just flames hovering over the poorly-rendered range.
Seeing ‘Overlook Hotel’, I immediately thought of The Shining, which didn’t fit. Am I missing something or is this just another bit of pointlessness?
Didn’t the hotel in The Shining burn? Maybe that’s the reference.
Heh – maybe these are all ghost clowns.
The whole damn kitchen looks to be on fire, and I don’t think anyone cares if it’s a grease fire or not. It’s just a stupid comic strip joke. :)
I’m scared to say that this is one of the most incompetent fail on every level absolutely *nothing* fitting *any* association botched strip I’ve seen, but I’m worried if a I said that I would then find a worse one.
Clown conventions have to expectation or resonance than rat poison conventions or cabbage growing convention. Clowns don’t wear spray flowers as their uniforms any more than toy manufacturers carry water pistols (so why not have the fire abated by toy conventioneers), kitchen fires aren’t a particularly common or expected disasters.
This comic works on absolutely *zero* levels.
But, CiduBill, there are fire department clowns.
They do fire safety programs with kids.
Clowns with black noses and cheek circles. Did the artist run out of red ink?
Oddly, the clowns are less creepy than the regular people in the comic.
I was told that one is not suppose to put water on a grease fire as the grease and water will not mix and the burning grease will travel on the water as it flows around and it will spread the fire.
In the early years of our marriage I put a package of frozen Chinese dinner into the toaster oven to cook it. Apparently the cardboard lid was too close to the heating element and it caught fire. I unplugged the oven and kept its door closed, as one is suppose to do,and the fire went out – and the toaster oven kept working.
A couple of years go by and Robert was heating something in the same toaster oven. The toaster oven was adjacent to a window and we lived on the first floor. It caught fire. Before I could stop him, he opened the window, unplugged the toaster oven and, yes, tossed it out the window. That was the end of the toaster oven.