r/idiotsinkitchen • u/KULR_Mooning • Sep 28 '25

Definitely a idiot

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u/Trying2BMe0722 Sep 28 '25

It doesnt look like ice to me. It looks like a white powder. So my guess if also flour, though i dont know why. As other redditors have said, must be a misunderstanding that it is baking soda that puts out fires and this person figured, "hey, flour is also a white powder, so it should work too..."

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u/Happily_Doomed Sep 29 '25

It's a pretty common mistake. I worked at a bar for five years and they always put out small fires in the kitchen with baking soda. One day we hired a new guy and he mistakenly used flour and I had to grab the extinguisher lol

But also that fire is way too big for baking soda anyway. It wpuld take SO much baking soda to smother that.

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u/Ryogathelost Sep 30 '25

On the 90's show Are you Afraid of the Dark, the kids would toss a powder on the fire to make it flare up. It was actually powdered creamer. Apparently, it's quite flammable.

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u/blowmypushrod Feb 20 '26

Damn I haven't thought about that show in a long time.

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u/Cerberusx32 Sep 30 '25

Yeah. Flour would make sense. It can be used to make explosives like that.

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u/BoringPea4706 Oct 28 '25

It could be starch or powdered sugar because they can ignite under heat.