On 31/05/2013 6:53 PM, sf wrote:
>>
>> My wife isn't too bad with the oven temperature. Truth be known, she
>> tends to bake and roast at lower temperatures than I do. Stove top is
>> another better. I always think about Emeril's comments about why there
>> are numbers on the dials. They don't have to be on high all the time.
>
> Sometimes the smoke alarm itself is too sensitive. The one in my DD's
> new house went off whenever she used her stovetop. They moved it
> around the kitchen, putting it over various doors but it was just too
> sensitive. You just reminded me that it didn't go off the last time I
> was over; so they either moved it to a spot where it was happier,
> replaced it or removed it entirely. I need to ask now that I'm
> thinking about that.
>

Trust me sf. It is not a matter of the smoke detector being too
sensitive. I often smell the smoke long before the detector goes off.
The kitchen is a good place for a smoke detector because it is one of
the rooms in a house that is most likely to be the site of a fire. I had
to move ours away from the kitchen because it was going off way too often.