Comment by umbrellajump on 01/02/2025 at 01:53 UTC

353 upvotes, 12 direct replies (showing 12)

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Still traumatised from when she nearly died in a chip pan fire. For some reason chip pan fires featured heavily in safety stuff for kids back then. I grew up assuming it'd be the most likely way I'd die

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Comment by confuzzledfather at 01/02/2025 at 02:09 UTC

121 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This was before the oven chip really took off, so chip pans were a regular thing.

Comment by Raichu7 at 01/02/2025 at 04:27 UTC

76 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I think kitchen oil fires are less common now because so many people were scared off cooking with a pan of oil as kids.

Comment by Jamie2556 at 01/02/2025 at 07:09 UTC

31 upvotes, 1 direct replies

My daughter was so traumatised by that episode and they kept repeating it. It wasn’t even called “fire “ or anything helpful so I never realised it was the scary one until it was too late. Top tip: it was called “useful holes” or something close to that, if you need to avoid it.

Comment by theVeryLast7 at 01/02/2025 at 11:41 UTC

21 upvotes, 1 direct replies

A chip pan fire, whilst trying to get a frisbee from some overhead electrical cables, then sinking into quicksand after not looking both ways crossing the street.

Comment by RespectTheH at 01/02/2025 at 02:04 UTC

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I always thought that's what caused the Weston super-mare pier to burn down, apparently not though.

Comment by marmmalade at 01/02/2025 at 07:00 UTC

11 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Chip pan fires were a bit of a craz during the 90s

Comment by CasualGlam87 at 01/02/2025 at 09:34 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That episode traumatised me too. Didn't help that my mum was terrible at cooking and kept accidentally starting chip pan fires!

Comment by ReginaldIII at 01/02/2025 at 04:34 UTC

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'm glad I'm not the only one who still members this viscerally!