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23 Comments:
the smoke alarm in our new house goes off almost every time we heat oil in a pan, and it's not even in our kitchen. i've yanked the thing off the wall and thrown it many times. my husband always puts it back up every night though.
french tart at 7:00AM on 02/28/07
well, I do not have a smoke alarm, but when I made those, some of the cheese filling split in the oven, and it smoked... and it is still smoking after almost a week, despite the fact I cleaned it...
Sara - Piperita at 7:21AM on 02/28/07
Pork tenderloin, whch I was cooking on a grill pan.
EatWisconsin at 9:41AM on 02/28/07
I don't have a smoke alarm either, but last night we broiled some salmon and it generated a surprising amount of smoke. I used to live above a Greek restaurant with the most sensitive smoke alarm ever, and every time they charred a piece of toast the alarms went off throughout the whole house and we all had to run down the stairs to disable them. Ugh.
caley at 9:58AM on 02/28/07
I swear that things goes off even when I'm just thinking about cooking. It went off when I was making a roast chicken on Sunday, hasn't gone back up yet.
josh! at 10:17AM on 02/28/07
we took our alarm off the wall, it was driving us nuts b/c it'd go off seemingly every time we cooked. How I long for a fan that actually vents air to the outside and isn't this useless piece of crap that just makes lots of noise...
ambienttra at 10:26AM on 02/28/07
August at the Jersey Shore. We had stock the fridge with things for grilling, but we neither grilled nor swam the entire week, thanks to hurricane-affected weather. I tried broiling burgers, and the smoke alarm starting *yelling*!!! My friends were madly waving magazines, as she (the alarm) kept shouting "Fire! Fire!" while I yelled, "Burgers, you idiot! Burgers!" This happened every night; she just never learned.
BaHa at 10:38AM on 02/28/07
A friend's house about two weeks ago.. His rental property didn't have a proper vent in the kitchen for the stove, so just about everything he tries to cook sets it off. I think we set it off about four times before dinner was finished :p Thank goodness for window fans and nice weather!
myzkyti at 10:47AM on 02/28/07
I'd rather not go into the explicit details, suffice to say it involved a mature ewe, a rubber suit, wellies, half a bottle of tequila and a flame thrower. I'm trying to put the whole experience behind me. Much like the sheep.
Graham Holliday at 11:11AM on 02/28/07
Using the broiler to toast bagels because there was no toaster at a friend's house the other day. We got to chatting in the kitchen and forgot about the bagels. They weren't too burned, but enough to set off the detector and then it wouldn't settle down. Bacon and eggs caused it to flair up moments later.
megnut at 11:34AM on 02/28/07
It was classic lazy cook result. I had made pizza the night before. And forgot to clean the stone. So the next day, I was backing an angel food cake and next thing I know the house doesn't smell warm and toasty, but like burnt cheese. I was literally walking over to the oven when the alarm went off. Typical, lazy chef result.
Husband at 12:34PM on 02/28/07
As long as the ewe was mature, Graham!
BaHa at 12:37PM on 02/28/07
My stupid smoke alarm is, sorry, was ridiculously oversensitive. I think I was browning some stuffed chicken breasts the last time it went off. The dish was just fine; I can't say as much for the smoke alarm. It suffered the fate of several alarm clocks and was walloped out of existence. Which reminds me, I should buy a new smoke alarm someday.
corycm at 2:14PM on 02/28/07
Glad to hear I'm not the only one with a sensative alarm. Mine goes off while frying bacon! Also any time I set my oven to self clean, I have to open all of the windows in the house and turn on the fan to keep the alarm from going off every few minutes for 3 hours.
JennaB at 2:17PM on 02/28/07
Ours goes off all the time, especially with anything in the oven. At one point we were doing like french tart and taking it off while cooking, putting it back up later, but now it's pretty much always off.
Lucia at 2:44PM on 02/28/07
Lamb chops marinated in olive oil and spices. The oil sparked the broiler in no time flat. The smoke alarm down the hall was going off!
FKC at 3:10PM on 02/28/07
Mature and happy BaHa, if a little tense at first.
Graham Holliday at 3:54PM on 02/28/07
That's where the tequila comes in, I presume.
BaHa at 4:39PM on 02/28/07
All these responses make me wonder: do passionate cooks die in more house fires than the average person? Because no one seems to have an operating smoke alarm anymore!
megnut at 4:43PM on 02/28/07
It's the sheep Meg. It's the sheep.
Graham Holliday at 5:17PM on 02/28/07
Bacon, I like mine just this side of cremated.
My cat and smoke alarm go off at the same time. One doesn't like the other, so it sounds like: Beep, Beep, Beep. MEOOOOOOOW! Beep, Beep,Beep. Both keeping perfect time.
monica at 6:05PM on 02/28/07
cochinita pibil. the dish wasn't wrapped tight enough and the marinade boiled over. what a smokey mess!
Harold at 6:12PM on 02/28/07
Ten years ago, a week after I moved into my apartment, I had a salted fish on the stove. The alarm went off, my next door neighbor called 911, the next thing I heard was a thump on my door. When I opened the door, three over six foot firemen towering over me.
"Everything is okay, maam?"
anasalwa at 4:23AM on 03/01/07