Kitchen consequential: how hazardous is your cooking space?

Cooks may be unwittingly inhaling dangerous microscopic oil droplets while using frying pans – but how does the health risk compare with other hazards in our kitchen?

No one needs reminding of the benefits of good cooking, but how often have you paused among your appliances to consider the stark and various dangers lurking on and beneath our work surfaces?

The latest kitchen nightmare to reckon with: cooking oil. Not the oil that clogs our arteries and gives us heart attacks in our 40s, or the oil that ignites in chip pans and burns the house down, but rather the stuff that explodes invisibly and enters our lungs.

Continue reading... November 20, 2017 at 09:57PM