- Hi, it's Katie from SafeWise, welcome to my kitchen.
So today we are conducting the Great Chicken Experiment.
Since I've been living here the Kidde Smoke detector
that came with the house has been hypersensitive
and it's not just my cooking, I swear.
So instead of just taking it down
I've decided to install another smoke detector right next
to it, but not just any. It's the Nest Protect Smart Smoke
detector, kind of the créme de la créme
of smart smoke detector out there.
It's been around for a while and I still haven't tested one
so I'm really excited to give this a try.
The big difference between the two
of these is that the Nest Protect connects to Wi-Fi
and an app on your phone. So if you're away and it detects
smoke or fire it will tell you.
Whereas this other one, the Kidde
is pretty much a standard one that's been unchanged
for years, the one we all know and love and grew up with.
One of the things I really like about the Nest Protect is
that you can cancel the alerts from your phone.
I am, but a towering five foot four inches
so it's really hard for me to cancel either
of these if I am cooking something like bacon
it can be really tricky and it's a lot easier to just pull
up my phone and turn it off that way instead
of grabbing the step stool and reaching up there.
So what I'm gonna do is cook some chicken
for my salad for lunch today and see which one of them
or both of them goes off. Let's get started.
I started out by seasoning the chicken breast
with salt, pepper, and a special rub.
Then I heated some vegetable oil in the pan.
Once that was nice and hot, I added the chicken breasts
and let 'em sit for five to seven minutes.
It's almost flipping time.
Neither one of 'em have gone off yet, so that's a good sign.
We'll see what happens when I flip these things.
My results were delicious but inconclusive.
Neither smoke detector went off from my cooking this time
so I'm gonna have to try something else.
It's tomorrow and I have a whole pound of bacon ready to go.
I don't need a whole pound of bacon
but we'll find something to do with.
There's nothing smokier than cooking bacon in the morning.
So let's see if this sets 'em off.
I started with four strips of bacon
in the pan and then added more from there.
So the eight or nine pieces that I had that I cooked
on normal amount of time, didn't set anything off.
So these will have to be our sacrificial piggies
and I'm just gonna let 'em burn and see what happens.
Nothing's gone off yet, so, sorry guys.
I'll admit this wasn't a perfectly scientific approach
but it was fun. Unfortunately, neither poultry nor pork set
off either of our smoke detectors.
Only after I lifted a hot pan of leftover bacon grease
up to them was I able to get any kind of result
but it wasn't replicable.
- (Nest app) The smoke alarm is over.
- My theory on this one, at least for the chicken lands
around the type of oil I used in the pan.
In the past, I've made the rookie mistake
of using olive oil to cook everything.
I've since learned and this time included
only used vegetable oil. Oils in the kitchen all have
different smoke points here you can see some
of the most popular. If my goal was to get smoke
I should have gone back to my old ways and used that
low smoke point extra virgin olive oil like before.
As for the bacon, I'm not sure what happened there
but I know my house will never smell the same again.
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