Cooking is your passion and you are always in the kitchen stirring up a storm. Else you may be cooking for a more basic reason — you need to eat. Either way, kitchen safety is very important.

Unfortunately, your kitchen has three key ingredients required to start a fire: fuel, flame and air. “Besides fires, cooking hazards like hot oil splattering and steam are responsible for burns and scalding,” says 26-year-old Bangalore hotel management graduate and hotelier Anuj Gemawat. Other culprits include gas leaks and malfunctioning of electrical equipments and cooking utensils.
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