initial-stage fire-fighting techniques. with a wet towel for tempura oil fire

• If you find a fire, immediately notify the people around you in a loud voice.
• We will call 119 and cooperate with initial-stage fire-fighting techniques. and evacuation guidance with as many people as possible.

It's important! Be sure to secure evacuation route before hitting initial-stage fire-fighting techniques. in case initial-stage fire-fighting techniques. fails.

This is a method of blocking the pan with a wet towel and shutting off the air when the tempura oil gets fired (suffocation fire extinguishing).

Use a towel that can completely cover the tempura pan.

It's important! If the diameter is 20cm to 40cm, it can be covered with 2-3 face towels with a width of about 20cm. However, please prepare more towels in consideration of cases where it cannot be covered.

Number of towels according to diameter

Prepare a lot of towels

Wet the towel with water.

Squeeze to the extent that water does not drop.

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Example of hanging a wet towel on chopsticks You can get a certain distance from the flame, so you can protect yourself from the danger of burns.

Fold a wet towel into two pieces on chopsticks, butterflies, long sticks, etc.

Reference: What can be used

• Items in the kitchen include chopsticks, ball patterns, fries, etc.
• Items in the home include hataki patterns, futon tapping, grandchildren's hands, long bamboo rules, baseball bats, golf clubs, etc.

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An example of putting a towel on a pot

Place a wet towel on the tempura pan as shown in the figure.
If you have more towels, I'll hang them on it further.

How to put a wet towel

From the front of the tempura pan, hang a wet towel so that both edges are completely covered.

Cover the edge on the front side of the tempura pan and the left and right edges firmly.

Be careful! Cover the edge on the front side of the tempura pan and the left and right edges firmly.

When the wet towel is completely hung, pull out the chopsticks and hang a new wet towel on the chopsticks to prepare.

How to cover the second and subsequent sheets

Just like the first one, hang a wet towel on the other half of the tempura pan.
Make sure that the left and right sides of the nave are completely hidden.

Layer the second wet towel with sufficient margin as the first one. If there is a gap, the flame will rise from there.

Make sure that the towel and the towel overlap.

Pull out the chopsticks as in the case of the first wet towel, and if there is another wet towel, hang it on the chopsticks to prepare.

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In addition, a few wet towels are layered to extinguish the suffocation completely.

Be careful! Don't take the towel as soon as the flame appears to have disappeared. It may start burning again.

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Put the lid on the tempura pan and turn off the stove.

It's important!
Don't take the wet towel right away
Even if the stove is extinguished, taking a wet towel immediately may cause the tempura oil to burn again.
Even after wearing a wet towel, there is a risk of burning again until the temperature of the oil falls below the ignition point, so do not remove the wet towel until the oil cools down.