Thanks be to my smoke detector...

We bought the Condo 10 years ago and replaced the batteries faithfully every 6 months. Cooking oven is a hard workout on the detectors.

So 3 years ago, I put in new detectors with 10-year batteries, hardwired too. 5 normal and one with CO in basement.

Also the wife changed cooking bacon to the air fryer, not one bacon induced alarm since!

Ivan
 
Krogen said:
I don't know why people are making jokes about this. It's a serious post, and I'm glad Rusty came through with nothing more serious than a smelly microwave.

This isn't joking material folks.
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Rusty may disagree.
 
Rustyt1953 said:
for it most assuredly saved our kitchen/home.
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While we are inconvenienced by the now dissipating horrid smell I am not upset about this but rather gratefully relieved that a 9 volt battery saved us.
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I surely don't mean a grouch, but for the jokesters here, go back and read Rusty's post. Partly quoted above for your convenience. I reiterate, it's not a joke. Some of you appear to be "reading challenged.":confused:
 
Krogen said:
I surely don't mean a grouch, but for the jokesters here, go back and read Rusty's post. I reiterate, it's not a joke. Some of you appear to be "reading challenged."
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While I can appreciate your stance the last was uncalled for.
My family experienced a total loss of the kitchen due to a fire that ignited behind a wall oven while nobody home. A poster above a bedroom door opposite end of the house was reduced to ash. My older brother spotted the smoke from down the street, popped a window with the end of a garden hose and managed to get the fire under control before FD showed. He was 14.
The piano went "plonk" when I hit a key and that's when I felt the worst. I recall my parents and neighbors attitude during the following weeks and never did one's sense of humor ever wane.
Krogen, perhaps you need to reread the posts, in particular the OP's follow up and leave those that know better be.
 
JR is 11 with ASD. We didn't admonish or berate him as he is wired a bit differently than most folks. He felt bad and said he would never go into the kitchen again after lights out.

At dinner last night (with the exhaust fans still running) Logan told JR he was getting him this for Christmas.

Cut from the right cloth, he is.



 
One of my 30 year old smoke detectors died on me a while back so I replaced all of them. Replaced the one in the kitchen in the same spot as the old one. The new one is too sensitive. Once in a while I'll be cooking something in the oven. Everything is fine mind you. I open the oven door to check on it and the alarm goes off. :eek:
The other night I was cooking a couple of hot dogs in the toaster oven. Again, all was well. But that set the alarm off. :mad:
I guess I'm gonna have to move it, but I'm not sure where to put it so that the kitchen is still covered. :rolleyes:
 
Reminds me of one of the signs that Mom's dementia was starting to get bad a few years ago. She wanted to warm up a chocolate chip muffin and set the microwave for 2 minutes instead of 20 seconds. When I got to the kitchen and opened the door that muffin was spewing smoke from about 10 different places. Took a week to get the smell out of the house. About then was when I made sure I had a caretaker to watch her while I worked, and I started preparing all her food when they were not at the house.
 
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