Towering Inferno versus Bacon Sandwich

[Steve Maskery]

I don't have a door on my kitchen and there is no room to hang one. So although the smoke alarm is out in the hallway, it goes off very easily. In fact I swear it goes off if I even open a cookery book. It is a pain having to open the window and do the towel-flapping routine.
Does anyone have any good ideas how I can keep myself protected against real risk but not have to put up with "Wolf!" whenever I start to feel peckish?
S

 

[Spindle]

Hi

Do you have an extractor hood? - Do you use it?

Regards Mick

 

[MMUK]

Butcher's curtain?

 

[Steve Maskery]

I do have an extractor and it does help.
I don't like curtains, but it may be that that is my best option.

I'm seriously considering just removing the alarm, although I recognise that that is not the most sensible thing to do.

S

 

[MMUK]

FWIW, I removed my smoke alarm a few years ago when I re-decorated. It only went back up two days ago thanks to SWMBO moaning about it being sat on the fireplace :lol:

 

[bellringer]

One that only triggered by heat

 

[Graham Orm]

Salad?

 

[paulm]

I think you can get kitchen version alarms that you can press a button on that deactivates them for ten or fifteen minutes while you are cooking ?

Cheers, Paul

 

[Steve Maskery]

Ah! That sounds like like a good idea, I'll have a look out.
S

 

[Sheffield Tony]

The optical type of detector seem less sensitive to cookery than the ionization type IME.

 

[mind_the_goat]

One that only triggered by heat

+1

These are designed for kitchens, might be better to reposition it in the kitchen so it picks up any fire before it spreads too far

 

[nev]

search for toast proof!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fireangel-SO-60 ... B003H2W66E

 

[Baldhead]

Ear defenders!!!!!

Seriously Steve, it's a bummer when it goes off when cooking, can it be repositioned further away from the kitchen?

In my working past I have attended house fires where the smoke alarm was either 'positioned' on the mantelpiece or had had the battery removed to power one of the kids toys, ask your local fire brigade for advice, perhaps there will recommend a heat detector as opposed to a smoke alarm.

Baldhead

 

[Paul Hannaby]

We used to have the same problem with a smoke detector which was outside the kitchen being triggered by cooking. I put a heat detector in the kitchen and put smoke detectors farther away from the kitchen and no false alarms since.

I also put a heat detector in my garage / workshop because the smoke detectors can be triggered by car exhaust fumes (some chance of ever getting a car into my workshop! :wink: ) and also dust can trigger them too. I also went for the mains powered interlinked types with battery backup so when one goes off, they all go off.