I knew eating meat was gonna get me one day.

[wickedflea]

A few weeks ago, I discovered that the secret of cooking a steak indoors is to get a grill pan really fuckin' hot before you put the steak on. It makes a lot of smoke, though, so you have to disconnect your smoke alarm. What's hard to stop, however, is the smoke wafting out into the hallway so that the building smoke alarm goes off and causes the fire department to have to come out and blow the smoke out of your apartment. Which can, does, and, uh, just did happen.

Live and learn, I guess. The steak was still fantastic, though. :)

Comments

[shigolch.livejournal.com]

Man, my smoke alarm's so sensitive that taking a shower can set that fucker off. No fire department shows up, though, so it's not that big of a deal.

Well, unless a real fire happens when I'm sleeping. Then I'm just dead, I guess.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I'll sleep much easier knowing that I can leave mine disconnected, because the one in the hall is plenty loud and (obviously) sensitive enough. Sucker-ass landlord.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

The dumbasses in my building have the stupid fire alarms hard-wired in each apartment. They were always going off for no reason, so I disconnected the damn things. Now if I can just figure out how to reconnect them before I move out...

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[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, these are hard-wired too. Mine was pretty easy to get off, but hard to locate when the FD showed up. "Where's your smoke alarm?" "Um . . . in one of these cabinets or drawers, maybe? Why do you ask?"

[lunchboxface.livejournal.com]

You should have just made a run for it, dude. Those guys would never catch you.

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[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I would have, but there was this one reedy-looking guy among them with an axe, and I could tell he was just dying to split my delicate skull open.

[skeeter138.livejournal.com]

Shit, that's just a price you have to pay for a fine porterhouse. So be it! No useless smoke dectector should be allowed to come between a man and his steak!

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[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Damn straight. And if it means making all the rest of the tenants stand outside in their bathrobes while public servants fan my kitchen out, so be it. I'm willing to make that sacrifice.