Are there actually dangerous levels of carbon monoxide from cooking? You would think fire alarms would be a bit smarter by now to distinguish someone cooking from a dangerous life-threatening situation.
In: Chemistry
Fire alarms detect smoke, if you cook and it produces smoke it can set off a fire alarm. Smoke is just tiny solid particles of random crap. Carbon monoxide that’s a whole other thing that’s not related to fire*
How is the fire alarm supposed to know the difference between a bit of smoke because you are cooking and a bit of smoke because your couch just caught on fire so now your whole house will be ablaze in about 5 minutes? Smoke is smoke.
*I will say that a lot of fire alarms nowadays detect both smoke and CO, but CO isn’t whats setting off your alarm while cooking unless there is something *seriously* wrong with your gas stove (and it has to be gas).
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