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A Microwave Oven with a built in smoke detector.
As soon as food starts to burn, 'Ding', the microwave shuts off.
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I know a man, a partner in a city law firm, whose wife left him. He set up house for himself and decided to roast a chicken for his dinner. |
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Having got everything he needed, he put the chicken in the oven for 80 minutes, like it said on the packaging, then went for a long ride on his bicycle. |
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He came home to find his apartment filled with stinking smoke and the fire brigade inside, having smashed the front door down, after neighbours called them. |
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He later bought another new microwave oven and took some cooking lessons. |
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Perhaps a pressure plate that shuts it off if whatever's in it starts
moving around, like, for example, a cat or other small animal?
Or an internal safety override switch that neighbors of creepy
people could train their pets to flip? |
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It would need to be a pretty sophisticated smoke
detector, since there are a lot of vapors wafting
around in a microwave that might set it off
prematurely. |
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Or alternatively a very basic one, which detects the smoke
particles blocking out light. |
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Whatever's cooking may emit steam, vapourised fat (which cools into droplets), even a little "normal" smoke. An ionisation detector won't be suitable, optical detectors will rapidly become contaminated and useless. This would be a serous technical challenge. |
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An optical smoke detector with a wiper (like a windshield wiper?) :) |
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//with a wiper// with a ship's clear view screen, surely? |
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Can we add a metal detector? |
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Partially baked with a certain toaster, I saw a program about the making of it: a smoke detector pops the toast up when it detects a set amount of smoke, sensitive enough to select the right shade of brown. |
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But most people don't cook chickens in the toaster. |
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You don't know what you're missing. |
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I would suggest that [Joolin]'s observation is the reason these don't already exist. |
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//I would suggest that [Joolin]'s observation is the reason
these don't already exist.//
[Mitxela]'s observation suggests otherwise! |
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