(Show this to your kids and/or grandkids)

The video is only 34 seconds long-- well worth watching!
Please read this info before you watch the video clip.  When I was at the Fire Fighting Training school we would demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field.  An instructor would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz. cup at the end of a 10 foot pole toss water onto the grease fire.

The results got the attention of the students.  With the water being heavier than the oil, it sinks to the bottom where it instantly becomes superheated.  The explosive force of the steam blows the burning oil up and out.  On the open field it became a thirty foot high fireball that resembles a nuclear blast.  Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fire ball hits the ceiling and fills the entire room.

Also, do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire.  One cup creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite!

How to Extinguish a Grease Fire

Coincidentally, I received this video link and warning from Michael T. and Jeff ... so I knew I had to post it!