kitchen fire

Stove-started conflagration

A kitchen fire is a fire that breaks out in a kitchen, typically from unattended cooking, grease ignition, or faulty appliances.

Kitchen fires are among the most common household fires: A grease fire started when she left the pan unattended.

The term also appears in safety contexts: Keep a fire extinguisher handy for kitchen fires.

Related

pan · extinguisher · alarm · burning · emergency · blaze · 911 · oven · cooking · burnt toast · accident · sprinkler · smother · stop drop roll · oil · open flame · charred · sizzle

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Opposites
fire control/intentionality

kitchen firecontrolled burn

Intentional fire for land management

cooking fire · hearth fire · campfire · pilot light · gas burner

location/setting

kitchen firewildfire

Uncontrolled vegetation blaze

forest fire · brush fire · campfire · bushfire · bonfire

temperature/state

kitchen firefire out

Dismiss abruptly from employment

Family

kitchen, fire, kitchens, kitchenette, fires, fired, firing, fireman, fireplace

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG