Healthier Foods = Hotter Fires
America's eating habits are changing. For health reasons, we're selecting foods with less fat and cholesterol, but this has also created a fire danger.
Many commercial kitchens have switched from cooking with animal fat, such as lard, to using fat-free vegetable oils in fryers. Vegetable oils burn hotter than animal fat, so vegetable oil fires are also hotter...and more difficult to extinguish.
If you are using vegetable oil in your fryers, make sure your fire suppression system and fire extinguishers are designed to put out these hotter burning fires.
For additional information, refer to the Underwriters Laboratories UL#300 Standard, which went into effect November, 1994.