[lawgolfer]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

I don't know the model of your house or the placement of the smoke detectors.

That said, smoke detectors should not be placed in a kitchen as, invariably, they will go off when cooking.

Detectors should be both outside and inside the doorways to the bedrooms as a fire when the occupants are sleeping poses the greatest danger. When you are in the kitchen and cooking, there is little risk.

I'm assuming that you have a detector in or near the kitchen that's the problem. If so, I'd just disconnect it. If that somehow disrupts the circuit of connected detectors, I'd try covering the vent holes in the cover of the detector with tape, shutting off the flow of air to the internal chambers of the detector.