Here’s a little PSA for those of you that have charcoal grills. If you’ve been lax about cleaning out the grease and crud from the bottom of the grill, and therefore when you start the fire, it’s flaring up pretty badly? Don’t just close the lid and the top vent “to tamp it down a bit” and then walk away. Because then when you come back with a plate full of burgers to put on the grill, and you open the lid, it will make a WHOOMP sound and you will think, “JEEZ, that was HOT” and you will hear this sizzling sound race past your left ear, and then you will smell something that smells like bad home perm, and then you will run into the house and find your husband and announce that you just had a Michael Jackson moment in the back yard, and get a :dubious: for your trouble, and then you will be all :rolleyes: and explain that you meant the Pepsi commercial kind of Michael Jackson moment.
Yes, it will all happen just like that.
Anyway, I’m fine. It turns out that hair burns pretty quickly (who knew?!) so I didn’t singe my skin or anything. And, the burned part is pretty small and I had a layered hairstyle anyway, so it’s not noticeable.
I’m leaving MrWhatsit in charge of the grill for awhile, though.
head hair burns quickly when loose. tying it back or wearing a hat is a good precaution when working with an open flame, also a hat (or other covering) will extinguish flames (don’t fan it). that’s why chefs started wearing those goofy hats so they would just loose their eyebrows.
Well, apparently yes, that is what is supposed to happen. The problem is that I saw these giant flames coming out and very stupidly decided to close the lid. And then even more stupidly came out a few minutes later and leaned over the grill to open the lid. I will reiterate, you should definitely not do this.
Not usually, no, but later the same day that I caught my hair on fire, I managed to knock a full jar of sweet pickles off the dining room table and onto the floor, spraying pickle juice all over my shorts and the carpet.
I stayed away from major appliances and sharp knives for the rest of the evening.
Have you ever sprayed flavoring spray on food cooking on a grill that has heated to cooking temperature? The mesquite flavored spray said to spray the meat when you barbecue. They really needed to rephrase that and put a flammability warning on the product. The meat needs to be sprayed while on a plate because the flavoring spray was flammable and the can becomes a flame thrower. I’m sure they have a warning by now. I reread the can and it didn’t say the product was flammable.
It was a long time ago. I only had a little singed hand hair. I had enough presence of mind to stop spraying before running back. The scariest part was flames starting at the can nozzle. The thing was I figured it must be a water based spray flavoring, because they said to spray the meat on a barbecue.
The automatic ignition was broken on my dad’s grill when my boyfriend and I were at his beach house for the 4th of July. We tried to make hot dogs. My boyfriend has a luxuriant handlebar mustache. Do you see where this is going?
