What happens in the kitchen stays in the kitchen

When we started at university we were told on the first day what to do when a fire alarm sounds and it is not a real fire, but the smoke detector going off in the kitchen. The answer to this was to call 999 and tell them what happened and that a fire engine did not need to be dispatched.

Basically, in our kitchens, the smoke alarm would only go off if the kitchen door was open and it would travel into the hallway and set the alarm off for the whole building.

One night I went into the kitchen to get something from the fridge. This was about 3:00 am as we are not normal people, we stay up all night and sleep through the day.

My flatmate and his girlfriend were in the kitchen deep-fat frying onion rings. Before I carry on these onion rings were amazing. Here is a recipe in case

you are interested: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/onion-rings

I decided to grab my boyfriend and go into the kitchen just to chat with them and be sociable. I was sat on a chair which propped the door open. We were all having a great chat and another one of our flatmates joined us too. It was a lot of fun and laughter was shared. I had not clocked them deep fat frying food, when I did I said aloud, by the way, the fire alarm is about to go off in 3 seconds. Everyone counted to 3 and then it went off.

We all ran to our rooms to get our shoes, slippers, coats, jumpers, phones and bathrobes. The whole block had to leave, all 4 floors. We saw on the machine outside, that it was out on the floor. I said we needed to call the 999 dispatchers to tell them it wasn't real but everyone said no leave it.

Eventually, the fire brigade turned up, they went into our kitchen and found the onion rings. They then came out and said whoever was making onion rings, that was the most expensive food ever. We were reminded to keep the door shut when making food and we were allowed to return.

We then had security come up and she told us off and wrote us in her little book, before she left she told us she hoped we choked on our onion rings. :) Such a sweet little Russian security lady.

Honestly, I found the whole thing funny, but the rest of the block who were asleep did not find it funny. Oops!

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To be honest this would be an awesome invention, this way the whole block did not need to know we were deep fat frying onion rings.