food cooking then beeping then distress and finally resolution, thank you.

[Alive-Cat]

When you are cooking up a storm, or for whatever other reasons this incident can come about, when the fire alarm goes off in your abode, how do you deal with this!?

Do you flap a tea towel/something flappy underneath frantically until it stops (no matter how long this takes)
Or turn it off somehow (I have never learned the trick of this on and off button business)
Or smash it to pieces (someone did this)

The answer is possibly a window into the soul or something maybe, I just came up with that, that one's mine.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

This never happens to me.

Also. I took my smoke alarm down and unplugged it.

[Alive-Cat]

This never happens to me.

Also. I took my smoke alarm down and unplugged it.

I do not recommend this for good fire safety

[Shauna]

Wave a tea towel under it. It sorts all life's problems. Well, the ones involving the fire alarm going off.

[Jess]

This has never happened in my flat. I always shut the kitchen door and open the window when I'm cooking, which saves me from the dreaded fire alarm battle!

[fire_of_avalon]

It happens occasionally. I just hang a damp cloth over it. Maybe it'll cause an electrical fire someday, but not yet!

[Shorty]

Yep, wave a towel under it, fan it with anything to get it to stop.