So yesterday, Matt was being a wonderful husband and made breakfast for everyone so I could sleep in. Well, as he was making syrup it boiled over and made a big mess. It was too hot to clean it up right away, so he was waiting for the burner to cool down. As he waited, he forgot about it and started making dinner later that day. While the water was boiling, a fire started where the syrup had spilled. Matt dumped some salt on it and covered the fire with a lid. When the fire didn't go out, he said, "Um there's a fire." I went in the kitchen and told him to put baking soda on it. He said, "Are you sure it's not salt that you put on the fire?" Well, as soon as he dumped baking soda on the fire, it went right out.
Of course the smoke detectors went off and it scared McKenzie and Owen. They were taking a bath, so they both came running out of the tub, naked, to see what was going on. We had the back and front doors open to get air flowing to stop the smoke detectors. I rushed them back into their room to get them dressed. What an adventure!
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Scary! I'm glad it worked out in a good way!
Hey Matt-Epsom Salt will put out a fire, not table salt :) Glad you didn't burn the house down. That must have been pretty scary! It is a good teaching moment to talk to the kids about fire safety though. Once I burnt cold cereal...it was on the counter next to a gas stove and when I was cooking it caught fire-cereal burns fast too! You guys be safe!!
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