sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Oct 20, 2014 21:24:33 GMT
At home, when the meal is over, I don't want to smell the food any more. So the poster on the chicken stock thread who cooks hers for 56 days ( lucyg) !! would drive me NUTS! I know it's not realistic, but I'd love to purge the food smells after eating. A long, slow cooking meal during the day BEFORE eating, like Thanksgiving or a crockpot meal, don't bother me... I've actually found a device that you have installed in the duct work that drastically cuts those odors if you run it on continuous fan. It struggles with garlic, though. |
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Nicole in TX
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Post by Nicole in TX on Oct 20, 2014 21:29:41 GMT
So the poster on the chicken stock thread who cooks hers for 56 days ( lucyg) !! would drive me NUTS! I think that might be a slight exaggeration.  |
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 20, 2014 21:33:22 GMT
I generally don't mind the lingering smells from cooking and love the way something baking makes the house smell, but will make sure the garbage is emptied quickly if we have had fish or seafood for dinner..
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Post by IPeaFreely on Oct 20, 2014 21:48:52 GMT
I get sick of the smell too.
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Post by Nicole in TX on Oct 20, 2014 21:57:16 GMT
If you burn a candle for a half hour or so that will help with the smells.
Not 56 days. A half hour.
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Post by padresfan619 on Oct 20, 2014 21:58:56 GMT
Bacon does it for me. I can't stand how the smell lingers for hours.
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Post by craftykitten on Oct 20, 2014 21:59:27 GMT
We are a vegetarian household. And we've left restaurants because of the smell before (BF, not me, I'm not so bad).
I hate scented candles too. Can we just have no smells, please?
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 20, 2014 22:00:17 GMT
The only thing that I want to smell after I eat is dessert.  |
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Post by anxiousmom on Oct 20, 2014 22:03:00 GMT
Wait...what?? I thought I read the whole stock thread and I didn't see 56 days??
I thought I read two-three days, but not two months. LOL
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Post by papersilly on Oct 20, 2014 22:03:08 GMT
I hate the lingering smell of scrambled eggs most of all. The other smells usually filter out if I open all windows and doors.
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Post by mallie on Oct 20, 2014 22:17:49 GMT
I am totally like that. In fact, I'd rather the smell be gone by the time I sit down to eat!
My dh, OTOH, is totally impervious to smell. I swear sometimes he has no sniffer. I will come home and go, "Ack! What died in here?" And he'll be, "Huh? WhatchutalkinboutWillis?" And it will be something in the disposal or garbage that I can smell from 30 feet away!
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 20, 2014 22:38:19 GMT
Bacon does it for me. I can't stand how the smell lingers for hours. I'll amend my previous answer, to say as much I love bacon, I can't stand it being cooked in my kitchen because of the lingering smell. I have heard a pot of boiling water & sliced lemon will help get rid of smells, but have never tried it. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 22:46:44 GMT
I am that way. That is why I hate it when I have to cook a big meal like Thanksgiving because by the time I have spent the last 12 thousand hours in the kitchen I am over it before I take the first bite.
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Post by SockMonkey on Oct 20, 2014 22:47:41 GMT
I totally agree. This is why I never cook bacon.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 22:53:25 GMT
I think Lucy's 126 day stock simmering makes a wonderful smell in the house. The problem is waiting for it to get done.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Oct 20, 2014 23:00:20 GMT
I love Indian food, but hate to make it at home because of the lingering smell for days. Last time I made Chicken Vindaloo DS was at basketball camp. He came home 3 days later and the first words out of his mouth were this house smells like hot sick Indian ass. (He hates Indian food) I swear curry seeps into the paint.
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Post by gloryjoy on Oct 20, 2014 23:04:32 GMT
It's not just you.
I loved smelling my turkey cooking on Thanksgiving Day, but the next day I went out for awhile and when I cam back home my house smelled like a greasy old turkey, YUCK!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 0:07:45 GMT
I am that way. That is why I hate it when I have to cook a big meal like Thanksgiving because by the time I have spent the last 12 thousand hours in the kitchen I am over it before I take the first bite. That's exactly how I feel. After smelling it all day, I'm just not that interested in eating it. I cook my chicken stock in the crockpot outside just so I don't have to smell it. It smells good for an hour and then I'm completely sick of it. And really hate when my bedroom smells like dinner after one of those long-simmering days. |
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Post by lucyg on Oct 21, 2014 0:46:13 GMT
I just discovered you people are talking about me and my chicken-stock-scented home. Well, I say, better the house should smell like chicken soup than stinky candles. hmmph  I must love food more than the rest of you. I think it's wonderful when the house smells like chicken soup or turkey or bacon or teriyaki or Mexican or dark chocolate anything. However, I won't cook fish because I don't want my house smelling fishy. And I hadn't thought about it, but I guess the same would go for Indian food. Not my favorite smell or taste. My house smells delicious. HMMPH |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 0:57:13 GMT
Bacon does it for me. I can't stand how the smell lingers for hours. ^This! A thousand times, this. ^  |
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Oct 21, 2014 1:08:00 GMT
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Oct 21, 2014 1:10:00 GMT
I am totally like that. In fact, I'd rather the smell be gone by the time I sit down to eat! My dh, OTOH, is totally impervious to smell. I swear sometimes he has no sniffer. I will come home and go, "Ack! What died in here?" And he'll be, "Huh? WhatchutalkinboutWillis?" And it will be something in the disposal or garbage that I can smell from 30 feet away!  This is totally me and my DH - he fully admits he has no sense of smell, and I find myself doing exactly what you described. It does come in handy when it's Sunday evening-clean-out-the-fridge time, though, LOL! I just point to any leftovers in the fridge that need to be thrown out and he does the rest.  But...yikes it was no fun having this strong sense of smell during my pregnancies. I had so many food aversions then, mostly due to the odor. Burning a candle (if you like them, which I do), or putting a small piece of lemon in the disposal and grinding it will do the trick to get rid of odors. I've never heard the lemon-water one though - I'll have to try that. |
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Post by jackietex on Oct 21, 2014 1:30:18 GMT
In the last few years I cannot stand the smell of ketchup after I eat. It almost makes me gag. Otherwise, I'm not really bothered by food smells after a meal.
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Post by Kate * on Oct 21, 2014 1:57:39 GMT
This place hoards smells. It all travels from the kitchen through the tv/family area, around the hall and up the 2-story entry way and upstairs. Everything is tile, granite and concrete walls. You'd think all the Lysol I spray would knock the odors out of the air, but there they linger, ready to pounce on your nose once you leave one of the bedrooms upstairs or come in from the outside.
As for bacon, I cook that in the big or toaster oven, so all those smells mostly stay inside the appliance.
eta: also have one of those electric simmering pot things in the kitchen to which I add water, drops of lemon, eucalyptus and citronella essential oils (to keep those damn little tropical fly things away), but it doesn't seem to get rid of much of the onion/garlic/ginger scents. |
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Post by M~ on Oct 21, 2014 2:04:46 GMT
I am. I hate food smells, particularly fried food. I've been known to change my clothes if I think I smell like food. YUCK. I won't go into certain restaurants any more because I've smelled like food before.
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Post by maryland on Oct 21, 2014 2:46:20 GMT
Me too! I love salmon, but hate the lingering smell. I love when we can grill out in the summer. Cuts back on the smell. I only cook salmon when I know no one is coming over for a couple of days. so hard when it's fall and winter and too cold to open the window and air it out.
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Oct 21, 2014 3:01:02 GMT
I am. I hate food smells, particularly fried food. I've been known to change my clothes if I think I smell like food. YUCK. I won't go into certain restaurants any more because I've smelled like food before. i smelled like Chinese food all afternoon today after lunch . It was a buffet with those steam tables. So i guess in essence I steamed in the smell. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 3:06:15 GMT
Bacon does it for me. I can't stand how the smell lingers for hours. I'll amend my previous answer, to say as much I love bacon, I can't stand it being cooked in my kitchen because of the lingering smell. I have heard a pot of boiling water & sliced lemon will help get rid of smells, but have never tried it. If I make bacon at night (breakfast dinner, as a pizza topping or for salads) it's still the first thing I smell as I'm coming down the stairs the next morning.
Ewwww!
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Post by penny on Oct 21, 2014 3:47:14 GMT
I have a Lamp Bergere just for that reason... Some foods I don't mind, but the majority of the time I want to get the smells out of the house... Not that I hate the smell, just that I don't like them lingering - I like air that smells 'new'...lol
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Post by Kate * on Oct 21, 2014 4:25:09 GMT
I have a Lamp Bergere just for that reason... Some foods I don't mind, but the majority of the time I want to get the smells out of the house... Not that I hate the smell, just that I don't like them lingering - I like air that smells 'new'...lol
Exactly!!
Now something else I need to look up, my list is long already . . . (sigh).
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Time to get off the internet!
This is totally me and my DH - he fully admits he has no sense of smell, and I find myself doing exactly what you described. It does come in handy when it's Sunday evening-clean-out-the-fridge time, though, LOL! I just point to any leftovers in the fridge that need to be thrown out and he does the rest. 
