Timeline for Using a paper towel as a splatter shield: Great idea or terrible accident waiting to happen?
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:05 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | @rackandboneman see the answer, "unless you are keeping your pan very hot, won't catch fire". It is inherently possible to get it hot enough to catch fire, but this is rather atypical use and cooks generally control the temperature to stay much lower. I would expect them to know when they are cooking at unusually high heat. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:02 | comment | added | rackandboneman | Induction can get some cookware to amazingly hot temperatures, not safe. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | barbecue | Paper towels make great spatter shields when microwaving. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | David Richerby | @BaardKopperud And that is the sixty-four million dollar question. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 20:07 | comment | added | Baard Kopperud | What's the flash-point for paper soaked with grease and fat? | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 16:38 | comment | added | Cascabel♦ | Right, you shouldn't get it that hot, but accidents happen. People accidentally heat oil to smoking, which is in the same rough temperature range. Upgrading that to a grease fire seems like a bit of a risk to be aware of? | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 16:21 | comment | added | keshlam | Flashpoint of paper varies, but Farenheit 451 is a memorable enough reference to it to be a useful rule of thumb. Most stovetop cooking operations on an induction range will not reach that temperature. Apply common sense, but this is a well-accepted practice for that technology. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 15:21 | comment | added | Cascabel♦ | Hmm, but isn't the auto ignition point of paper low enough to make it dangerous on induction still? Wiki says 218–246 °C (424–475 °F) which seems quite possible inside a pan. So you could overheat your pan a bit, and instead of just maybe making the oil smoke, you might ignite the paper and in turn ignite the oil? | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 15:10 | history | answered | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |