My Smoke Detector

[debka_notion]

I now officially hate my smoke detector. Or at the very least, I don't understand its functioning. Yes, my apartment was smokey- I was taking cookies out of the oven. But I don't know how the heck to shut it off once I know that yes, indeed, there is smoke. So I openned all the windows, and that didn't help right away, so I stood on a stool and held my hand over the thing to muffle it so it wouldn't bother the neighbors (or me) quite so much. So now my back is sort of creatively sore (that shouldn't last for too long, I hope), and I feel mildly idiotic. And it was really annoying. And my oven is evil- I can't tell what temperature it is, ever, and it almost always manages to burn things. So my muffins are a bit blackened on top. And my cookies are slightly burnt on the bottom. It's all still qutie eatible, but it Looks funny. Grrrrr.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

Take a clean cookie sheet, open a window, fan under the smoke detector until the clean air refrshes the sensor. Works like a charm.

[belu.livejournal.com]

Take out the batteries.

[belu.livejournal.com]

Oh, and put a thermometer in the oven, and rely on that more than the dial. Once you figure out the offset, it's easy.

Heck, one of my Grads had an oven dial without any numbers. I determined where 400 was and took a knife to the thing to mark where it was. Worked like a charm.

[tovaks.livejournal.com]

Haha! The oven in my grad doesn't have clear numbers on it, either.

[doodah.livejournal.com]

I say launch a full-fledged assault on your smoke detector! throw things at it from behind your couch, glare at it menacingly, tie yourself to the refrigerator! refuse to accept beeping for an answer! demand coherent conversation, and withold sundry baked goods until it knows what's what!

(or just do the battery thing.)

[skyblue-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Your oven sounds much like the one in my grad last year—very uncooperative and incredibly temperamental. I don't think it was good at maintaining a consistent temperature... Hope you find a solution.

[ladynomi.livejournal.com]

At home, I just smack the smoke detector with a dish-rag and it usually stops, although I don't know what condition yours is in and that might break it.