Fire Safety In The Kitchen - video included.

Please read first, then watch the video.
Preventing catastrophic
fires in the home:

Preventing catastrophic fires in the home Following is an excellent prevention film well worth watching! It could save your home...and perhaps your life. Please read this first, and then watch the short clip. I never realized that a wet dishcloth can be a one-size-fits-all-lid to cover a fire in a pan. This is a dramatic 30-second film on how to deal with a common kitchen fire....oil in a frying pan. At the Fire-Fighting Training School, they demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer outdoors in a field. An instructor dons a firesuit and -- using an 8-oz cup of water at the end of a 10-foot pole -- he tips the water onto the grease fire. The results are startling. The water, being heavier than oil, sinks to the bottom, where it instantly becomes superheated. The explosive force of the steam blows the burning oil up and out. In the open field, it becomes a 30-foot- high fireball. Inside the confines of a kitchen, such a fireball will hit the ceiling and fill the entire room. Also, DO NOT throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup of either creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite. Watch the video and don't forget what you see.

This is a message sent from a friend of mine, and it's good info. For all of you cooks, especially those with the young kind, this can help even your 10 year old chefs who may encounter this problem. I hope this can help someone.

And here is Mt. Rushmore, from the Canadian side... No wonder other countries don't like us?



Your Recipe for the day (From Bobby Flay's Barbecue Nation Cookbook):
Grilled Smoked Chicken with root beer barbecue sauce -
1 Tbs kosher salt. 1 TBS sweet Hungarian paprika. 1 tsp firmly packed dark brown sugar. 2 tsp freshly ground pepper. 1/4 tsp celery seeds. Two 3.5-3.75# chickens, backbone cut out & cut in half through the back. 1 cup water. 3/4 cup distilled white vinegar. 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce.

2 cups hickory wood chips, soaked 1 hour in water to cover and drained.

1) Mix dry ingredients. Reserve 4 tsp for mop mixture. Rub the remaining spice mix all over the chicken halves. Refrigerate for an hour.
2) Combine remaining spice mix with wet ingredients for the mop.
3) combine bbq ingredients except salt & pepper, bringing it to a boil. Simmer until reduced to 1.5 cups, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add salt & pepper. Set aside to cool.
4) Set up grill for indirect grilling. Oil grill surface for cooking. Add 1 cup wood chips, fill aluminum foil drip pan half with water.
5) Arrange chicken, skin side up, n grill above the drip pan & cover. Use top & bottom vents to maintain temp approximately 300F (give or take). Keep other vents closed. Grill until almost cooked, brushing with mop every 15 minutes for an hour & 25 minutes.
6)Begin brushing chickens w/ bbq sauce and keep grilling til an insteant read thrmometer inserted in the thigh away from bone registers 180F, about 10 minutes longer. Move chicken directly over fire, using tongs. Grill until sauce sizzles and browns, about 2 minutes. Remove to a platter, cut into quarters, and serve. Pass remaining sauce separately.


Root Beer BBQ Sauce:
1 cup root beer. 1 cup ketchup. 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice. 1/4 cup orange juice. 3 TBS Worcestershire sauce. 1.5 firmly packed dark brown sugar. 1 Tbs mild (light) mo0lasses. 1 tsp liquid smoke. 1/2 tsp lemon zest. 1/2 tsp ground ginger. 1/2 tsp garlic powder. 1/2 tsp onion powder. Kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Enjoy! Hope everyone is having a great summer so far. Stay cool, stay safe, and have lots of good fun! Off to my son's ball game. I'm not so shabby of a coach. It's been a fairly good season so far. Until next time, peace out.