Standard Cooking Fire Tests to Evaluate Cooking Fire Mitigation Technologies
Daniel Gottuk, Hughes Associates, Inc
Joshua Dinaburg, Hughes Associates, Inc.

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In 2010, the Fire Protection Research Foundation conducted a study supported by NIST to develop an action plan toward improving cooking fire safety. The project culminated with a one-day workshop of 35 leaders from the kitchen appliance, fire service, and user communities who met to review the findings and identify gaps. The highest priority action item identified was "Develop standard fire scenarios and create test methods and performance criteria that can feed into standards development." Therefore, a continuation of the project was completed with the goal of developing standard cooking scenarios and to create candidate test methods and performance metrics to evaluate cooking fire mitigation technologies. This presentation will include the results of that study.