Over the last few years there has been an explosion of cooking programs on our small screen, there always seems to be someone trying to impress their guests with their culinary skills or someone else showing us the correct way to boil an egg from the shores of some far-off European lake. Chefs are the new rockstars. However, it’s not all bad as this growing trend is now giving people the confidence to go and try some cooking instead of heading to the local take-away plus more importantly, it is showing us how to eat healthy.
Understandably, with people now having the confidence to attempt new dishes there can often be little miss-haps in the kitchen. Burning things, setting smoke alarms off and waving teatowels underneath them until the constant bleeping stops seems to be a passage of right for the eager cook.
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There is an area in personal and home protection that people seem to take for granted, even though, nearly every week it kills families and destroys buildings. Fire and smoke related incidents is responsible for over 400 deaths each year in the UK and also causes millions of pounds worth in damage. Which means that the Fire Services are called out to over 600,000 incidents involving domestic or industrial premisses and that figure is increasing year by year.