Possible Clues:

• Skillet
• Cooking up the tip of the day is particularly useful for those who are browned off
• Kitchen utensil
• There's worse to come out of this
• The precursor to fire in which one cooks
• Its home is on the range
• It's not as bad as the fire, metaphorically
• Nosy enthusiast swapping lids one's used in the kitchen
• Don't get out of this to land in the fire
• No benefit abandoning this vessel if there's a fire