Creative & Skills · Digital book

Combustion

By Sikho

Cooking causes 44% of home structure fires. Kitchen knives send 350,000+ people to the ER every year. Foodborne illness sickens 48 million Americans annually. A recalled pressure cooker can still be sitting on your counter, still working, right up until the moment it isn't. Nobody has ever put these hazards in one place, because they live in different federal agencies that never talk to each other — fire statistics at the NFPA, foodborne illness at the CDC, appliance defects at the CPSC, allergen law at the FDA. Combustion is the first comprehensive, mechanism-first guide to what actually injures, sickens, and kills people in their own kitchens — and why the folklore everyone trusts (water helps a fire, dull knives are safer, expiration dates mean danger) is often exactly backward. Built entirely from named agencies, documented real cases, and peer-reviewed research — including the 2015 Ohio botulism outbreak, the physics of why water detonates a grease fire, the CPSC's ongoing pressure-cooker recalls, and the psychology of why kitchen myths survive despite being wrong — this book replaces vague dread with specific, practical competence. Understanding a mechanism, not fear, is what makes a kitchen safe.

270 minutes estimated reading

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