Indian woman's kitchen alarm nightmare: Paratha cooking triggers fire department in UK | - The Times of India
An Indian woman in the UK faced an embarrassing ordeal when her home fire alarm blared for twenty minutes while she was simply making parathas. Despite no actual fire, the sensitive alarm triggered, leading to a visit from the fire department. She humorously shared her struggle with cooking Indian food abroad, which resonated with many online. An Indian woman in the UK recently discovered that sometimes the real struggle isn’t finding ingredients, it’s surviving the kitchen alarm. Adhwan Kapoor posted a funny–yet–stressful clip on Instagram where she was simply trying to make parathas, and suddenly her home fire alarm decided to scream like the world was ending.In the video, you can hear the piercing alarm in the background while Kapoor stands in the kitchen looking both annoyed and helpless. She explained that she was only cooking basic Indian food and nothing was burning, yet the alarm still went off. According to her, making Indian food abroad feels like a full-on mission, because even normal tadka seems to trigger the sensors.In the caption, she called it one of her most embarrassing experiences since moving to the UK. The alarm didn’t just beep for a few seconds, it reportedly went on for around twenty minutes, long enough for the fire department to show up at her door. Half joking, half serious, she wrote that she never wants to make parathas again and hoped she wasn’t the only desi dealing with this chaos. To make things worse, it was 11:30 at night and freezing outside, so she felt bad that someone had to come out in zero-degree weather just to shut off a false alarm. Still, she said the parathas were worth all the drama.The clip blew up online. People jumped into the comments saying they’d gone through the same thing, while others couldn’t stop laughing. One person wrote, “Same thing happened to me.”Another suggested, “Cover the sensor before you start cooking.”And someone else gave the most dramatic solution of all: “Just cook outside, that’s the only way.”Sometimes you crave parathas… and end up nearly calling the fire brigade.
