Do you have a vent hood in the kitchen? If so, put it on high and hopefully it will help clear out the smoke. If not, just use ear plugs :-)

Yep, I turned that on. I also rubber-banded a grocery bag over it. So far so good. Thanks!

on the electric, non-battery types Usually if you open the cover it will disable the alarm.

I have electric one's that are hardwired in my townhome, but they also have battery backups on them. For mine I can take them down by twisting them off their mounting base on the ceiling. They then have a plug on the back side that comes off so i can replace the battery. But If I pull it down it won't go off when it is disconnected from the wiring, since all of them are linked together in the house.

Phil

I have a circuit breaker in the fuse box and the only thing on it is the smoke alarms