When ever I cook I take down the smoke alarm and hide it in my bed, just in case

[Bretrick]

No need to have it screaming unnecessarily.
Happened a few times, needed to climb onto a chair to turn it off. So, so loud.

 

[CallMeKate]

No need to have it screaming unnecessarily.
Happened a few times, needed to climb onto a chair to turn it off. So, so loud.

Okay, I get taking it down (well, I take the battery out, but only when I'm making sausage... nothing else makes it go off!) ... but why the bed Assuming yours is different and you can't just remove the battery? Then no matter what you burn overcook make well-done it wouldn't be screaming.

 

[Knight]

If you cook daily you must get a lot of exercise getting up & down. Once to remove it once again to put it back.
Maybe for safety sake you should buy a small ladder
https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-R...4?keywords=small+ladder&qid=1691536583&sr=8-4

 

[hollydolly]

No need to have it screaming unnecessarily.
Happened a few times, needed to climb onto a chair to turn it off. So, so loud.

I can't take mine down they're hardwired .. so when it does go off at the slightest whiff of smoke.. I'm up on the ladders waving a towel at it.. trying to silence this thing the whole neighbourhood can hear...

 

[Bretrick]

Okay, I get taking it down (well, I take the battery out, but only when I'm making sausage... nothing else makes it go off!) ... but why the bed Assuming yours is different and you can't just remove the battery? Then no matter what you burn overcook make well-done it wouldn't be screaming.

A simple twist removes the whole unit. Bed is handy.

 

[Bretrick]

If you cook daily you must get a lot of exercise getting up & down. Once to remove it once again to put it back.
Maybe for safety sake you should buy a small ladder
https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-R...4?keywords=small+ladder&qid=1691536583&sr=8-4

Good idea, will get one when memory tells me.

 

[Bretrick]

I can't take mine down they're hardwired .. so when it does go off at the slightest whiff of smoke.. I'm up on the ladders waving a towel at it.. trying to silence this thing the whole neighbourhood can hear...

They really are very loud.

 

[hollydolly]

They really are very loud.

yes annoying as it is..they really have to be loud to ensure they would wake anyone who might be asleep...

 

[dobielvr]

Mine are out in my garage.
The darn things would go off after my showering at 5:30 in the morning.
That was enough of that!

 

[Gary O']

Sooooo, it's NOT the dinner bell?

 

[RadishRose]

Lower the heat @Bretrick or use a cooking oil with a higher smoke point if you fry, like peanut oil.

Check on foods cooking in the oven occasionally. I would hate for you to have a stove fire.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Here we are required to have a HEAT alarm, NOT a smoke alarm in the kitchens - for the very reasons stated in this thread.

 

[Jules]

You can buy alarms that aren’t sensitive to cooking smoke. At least the packages say they aren’t.

 

[hearlady]

I do that if I'm cooking on a very high temp or something that spits or smokes.

 

[Supernatural]

No need to have it screaming unnecessarily.
Happened a few times, needed to climb onto a chair to turn it off. So, so loud.

Electrician gave me the best trick to prevent cooking smoke from setting off the smoke alarms in our house.

They're all linked so, if one goes they all go, it's simply deafening...

Grab a pack of clear (or coloured) shower caps. Cover each unit and voila, cook anything without a peep out of your detectors.

 

[Tommy]

Our smoke detector in the kitchen (Kidde or First Alert - I don't recall which) has a lighted button on the bottom the mutes the alarm for a short period of time. We have a three-foot long, half-inch dowel that hangs in an inconspicuous spot. When the alarm goes off, we just grab the dowel and use it to press the mute button. Cheap, easy, and works just fine.