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Which Fire Extinguisher is Best for the Kitchen?

We set a lot things on fire in a “burn building” to see which extinguishers actually worked against a real blaze.

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Want more details? View the full report of our fire extinguisher testing.

About the Author: Lisa McManus

Lisa McManus is senior editor in charge of all equipment testing and ingredient tasting stories at Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines, and writes testing and tasting features for Cook’s Illustrated. She joined America’s Test Kitchen in 2006, after working as a newspaper food editor, and magazine and newspaper journalist for many years in Boston, New York, and California. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her husband, Hugh, is a rocket scientist, and they have two sons.

3 Comments

  • langeallison

    this would be much more useful as a list rather than a video

  • Christine Liu
    Christine Liu

    Hi langeallison, the full results (and list) are available here: http://www.cooksillustrated.com/equipment/overview.asp?docid=21526

  • Kevin

    The link to the overview works but the test results are blocked. What happened to “everything, always” on the site being free???

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