The Times
Friday, June 2, 2008
When you cook tempura, the oil gets very hot.
Yamada cooked dinner at 8 P.M. He often makes tempura. He put the fried crumbs in his trash can.
Those crumbs could get to be as hot as 100°C. After a while, the crumbs might start a fire. They did last night at Yamada’s home. In fact, hot crumbs have been the cause of other fires in Tokyo this year.
Hot crumbs in trash cans can start fires.