smoke
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The Best Ways to Stop Your Smoke Detector From Going Off While Cooking
Smoke detectors are essential home safety fixtures, but some can be a bit overzealous — sounding their alarm if you leave your English muffin in the toaster a minute or two too long.
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Stop Soaking Your Wood Chips Already
To grill is human, but to smoke is dad-like. Smoke is the so-called “third leg” of BBQ. It adds flavour, and helps build that sought after bark, and is what makes BBQ taste like BBQ. To make smoke, you need to burn some wood (or pellets), and nearly every smoking tutorial will tell you that…
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PSA: P2 Masks Used For Bushfire Smoke Could Work Against Coronavirus Too
Australians have gone out in droves to buy up P2 smokes for the smokey bushfire conditions being experienced across the country in recent months. But with a new outbreak of Coronavirus spreading out of China and causing global concerns, the masks could work against being infected by airborne contagious diseases too. Here’s what you need…
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How To Tell When Smoke Pollution Is Hazardous This Bushfire Season
While the bushfires themselves present the biggest threat to human lives, another lurking danger is impacting the health of thousands more: smoke pollution. You’ve probably seen a bunch of scary looking numbers in the news but what do they actually mean? Here’s how to decipher the air quality index (AQI) in your area – and…