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Amazon asked me to review this product, but I haven't had a kitchen fire so I have no idea whether this fire extinguisher in fact extinguishes fires. Keep your fingers crossed.
Unlike many extinguishers, the red safety tab is easy to remove when you are panicking and trying to get it off in a hurry. I strongly suggest anyone who doesn't have an extinguisher in their kitchen designed specifically for class K (kitchen) fires purchase this and keep it in a convenient location. The FX10K is an attractive design and mounts easily. I wouldn't buy one of these for a commercial kitchen, but would for a home. Although dry chemical extinguishers like this are becoming less popular than wet chemical extinguishers, this is still a very effective product. You could spray your sofa with this stuff and clean it up fairly easily. This extinguisher essentially propels baking soda onto the fire to prevent the chemical reaction between heat, fuel, and oxygen, and put out the fire.
We had a kitchen fire in our oven, and flames shot up the side of the wall. That way you can get it off very easily, yet it still acts to prevent accidental discharges. The fire was contained mostly to the oven at the time, but the Kidde FX10K had it out within about 2 seconds flat. Another advantage is that, since it's essentially baking soda, you can just wipe up the chemicals with a wet rag once you're done, and the extinguisher shouldn't cause any real damage. It does discharge the entire cannister very quickly (you can only really use this once), it is so effective that you shouldn't need to use it very long, unless you freak out and miss the fire completely. As most people know, you should never throw water on a grease fire, but instead smother it with sand, flour, or baking soda. EVERYONE should have a kitchen fire extinguisher.
Unlike the fire extinguishers you may be familiar with, this is a sodium bicarbonate dry chemical extinguisher, designed specifically for grease and oil fires (although it will still be somewhat effective for regular fires). If there's a fire, you are not going to be looking at a safety tab and trying to figure out how to take it off, you're just going to be ripping at it to remove it, and this comes off easily. Unless you have small kids who play with things, I would even suggest removing it in advance to break the tabs, and then reinserting it with the tabs already broken. I firmly believe our house would have burned down had we not had it.
I have not used it and hope I never need to. Because this is a disposable unit that cannot be recharged I cannot test it. I purchased this Kitchen fire extinguisher for our kitchen and it arrived promptly and in good fully charged condition. I deduct 1 star because I cannot test it.
Almost had to use it. I keep mine under the sink. great product to have in the some. every home should have one. glad I had it.
Great value, attractive look and fits nicely in the kitchen. Hope I never have to use it but it is a great comfort having it now.
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