> Due to their nature smoke alarms have to fail in the most annoying way possible, and be difficult to disable. Why? Why not make them so that you can easily p

> Due to their nature smoke alarms have to fail in the most annoying way possible, and be difficult to disable. Why? Why not make them so that you can easily press a button and disable them for X amount of time universally? The one in my apartment has no silencing mechanism and trips every single time I am cooking on high heat. I literally have to rip it off the wall to get it to stop, and the result is that I now cover it while I cook which is probably the most likely time an actual fire will develop. Yes we really don't want false negatives, but if something designed to protect against a statistically unlikely event throws inordinate amounts of false positives with no recourse for silencing, people will just disable it.