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All. The. Time. It drives us nuts. The thing seems waaay too sensitive. I guess that's a good thing though.

When we lived in our apartment it would go off every time the oven was on, it was ridiculous! It has never gone off at our house though.

I have.

This is exactly why there is no smoke alarm in our kitchen. Just using the microwave would set it off! Don't worry, we are still safe - there are alarms in both bedrooms which are about 5 feet from the kitchen

@mrbee: I set ours off every time I sear a roast. (Actually, DH has banned me from doing it since I burned my face w/ the hot grease last time I did it, so that solves that problem)

Mine just went off from preheating a (clean) oven. I hate apartments and their hard-wired absurdly sensitive alarms.

Allll the time. It's so annoying! It never even seems smoky but sometimes I end up having to climb up on a stool and wave a towel under the alarm to get it to stop.

OMG our last apartment was THE WORST. It went off almost every time and there wouldnt even be smoke or anything burning.

Yep, ours is super touchy. Just the blast of heat from opening the oven to take something out will set it off. I really need to move it across the kitchen to help keep that from happening!

Not since college

Haha I've set it off before. Haven't at our new place though!

In our apartment before this house, the smoke alarms were really sensitive. Any time I'd make bacon or cook anything at 400 degrees or higher in the oven, they'd set off. They were linked, too, so ALL the alarms would go off. All our neighbors had the same issue. Nearly every day we heard someone's alarm going off.

Now it never happens. This house is much more reasonable in that aspect!