A fire blanket is a sheet thrown over flames to smother them. Keep a fire blanket in the kitchen.
It cuts off the air, which is the only safe way to deal with burning fat. A fire blanket is the one piece of fire equipment every kitchen should have.
1nounfire blanketA sheet thrown over flames to smother them.
“When his sleeve caught light at the barbecue, his friend wrapped him in a fire blanket.”
fire blanket is equipment.
Fire plus blanket; the modern kind is woven from glass fibre.
fire + blanket
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Emergency & Rescue