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Of course number 1 would have to be Chitterlings, otherwise known as Chitlins in the South, I wouldn't cook them in my house for anything, but believe it or not, they taste good if cleaned and prepared correctly

2. any greens, collards, mustards ,kale, all smell and, IMHO taste VILE!

3. Cabbage, but it tastes great.

4.Boiled Eggs, Smell awful when peeled, and to me taste just as bad!

What stinks to you?????

 
 
Oh Yeah!

Salmon patties...We love them, but they really stink up the house, poor little Bella Kitty walks around meowing trying to figure out what smells so good.."To her!!!"
 
Re Crisco

Is WONDERFUL to deep fry in, There used to be a product called MalFry , it was used by many restaurants and was really good, but I don't know if its still being made.
 
Cabbage in the pressure cooker!

I don't use my pressure cooker very often, but I LOVE cabbage and carrots cooked in the pressure cooker, but the entire house smells like cabbage for hours after.
 
The limit of what I'll eat that "stinks" cooking is spinach and broccoli.

After dinner I don't like ANY food smells lingering. I won't resort to air sprays so you can imagine I get somewhat busy jiggering windows and fans to get rid of smells.

Some heavy smells, like broiler steak or pan sausage, I only schedule when weather permits ventilation. Spoze I'm somewhat OCD about air smelling like air and nothing else except 'during' mealtime.
 
Frying bacon or deep-fried anything are my least favourite smells to have lingering in the house...  I avoid dishes involving either unless I can set them to cooking in some appliance I can plug in on the back deck.  
 
Rosettes

My late Aunt Emilie was the last person to make rosettes until I resurrected them for the family Thanksgiving.
House stunk to high-heaven although the rosettes were a huge hit.
Crisco huh?
I'll try it on my rosettes.
One of my friends is a great cook, and an ex-butler. He too would only fry things on the deck. I truly understand why.
 
Liver. I remember my mother frying liver only twice when I was little. With the way it smelled there was no way I was going to eat that. I haven't thought of this in years but I remember once when I was little my two older brothers cooking a deer heart on the stovetop. It smelled hideous. [this post was last edited: 1/27/2016-12:47]
 
Gagging at the Liver

and Deer Heart - UGH

I have never eaten liver in my life - not even once...but I was tricked into eating deer meat a couple of times growing up.

I guess the smell of cooking cabbage would PALE in comparison to some of these things. I don't fry a lot, but I agree, the smell of that smokey oil from frying and then that leftover STALE smell it leaves.......I hate that! I wish more homes had ventilation that went directly from the range/cook top and gets sucked outside instead of just recycling the air through a filter that doesn't really work that well.

Funny - a friend of mine who used to live in a mobile home actually had a vent that opened up right beside their oven and drew cooking air right outside, yet most homes don't. Whatever.......
 
Bacon......

but have learned to cook a lot of stuff on the grill out on the deck....

even an electric fryer or roaster......

especially if its summertime, as to not kill the A/C with the heat, plus the ventilator will spread any such odor through out the house...

interesting ideas were to bake an apple pie when showing your house for sale....
 
Rosettes kinda defined

Rosettes are thin, fried cookie. Typically a Scandinavian-type tradition.They are done with a thin batter cooked in hot oil using a decorative iron to create a deep, pretty shape. Although the cookie is thin, the entire thing is rather deep. After crispily done, they are often dusted with powdered sugar.

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Anything fried has me running across the house opening windows and turning on fans. And any kind of boiling meat including chicken soup also makes me crazy. Salmon fajitas were fried up on the griddle the other day and I didn't ventilate the house properly and seriously regretted that around bed time. I also hate the smell of the toaster oven, or anything close to burning. Pretty much 80% of food smells burn my nose.

I would be one of those people with a 1,200 CFM external fan exhaust hood that actually used it and cranked it up to full blast and watch the curtains nearly get ripped down from the air pulling in through the open window.
 
It's not the smell, it's the SMOKE . . .

Blasted Chicken: Brush your chicken pieces with olive oil, lightly salt and pepper, then into a fully pre-heated (wait an extra 10 minutes after the pre-heat signal) 450 degree oven for 45 minutes. Meantime, open as many windows as the weather permits, crank up the exhaust fan and the ceiling fans if you have 'em.

The skin turns into the poultry equivalent of cracklins and the meat is juicy, even the breasts. Worth enduring the smoke.
 
Okay. Guess its been so long I didn't remember what Rosettes were/are. Somewhere in the attic is a Rosette iron. I remember them being made once or twice many, many years ago.
 
Gram's rosette iron

I too had Gram's old rosette iron packed away. It still works the best even though I've picked up "better" ones along the way. Go figure. Gram died in 1966 so you can guess just how old that thing is. I don't understand its magic but it does work well.
 
makes me gag

Nothing worse than Freash Pork followed by..anything fried. Believe it or not...I don't really notice cabbage as much as mentioned above. When I do fry...which is rare...I do it in an electirc skillet on the back porch..and even then the smell lingers for several days!! I'll have to give the Crisco thing a try...I assume thats the shorting not the veg. oil? I've heard chitlings smell really bad...have never smelled or cooked them. I just know they come in a big red tub, frozen at select grocery stores
 
LIVER!

We  had it once a week growing up, I swore I would never eat it again if I lived to grow up, and I haven't!!!!LOL...Like eating a rubber shoe sole!!!!
 
+1 Ken. Hated it as a child and STILL hate it to this day. Foie Gras is the lone exception.
 
Suet

Not for human consumption, of course, but my mom used to make suet balls to put out for birds. The smell was so bad I had to leave the house, or go to the basement to avoid throwing up.

As for food, the odor of vegetable soup or Veg-All makes me feel sick.

One of my neighbor ladies (now deceased) said the smell of coffee brewing in the morning started making her sick. She said she told one of her friends, and the friend suggested she see her doctor for a pregnancy test. Sure enough, she was expecting her first child.
 
Microwave Popcorn!

Nothing is more throat-gagging and stomach-turning!  Every day in my office at the telco the gals would fire up bushels of that sh*t.  I would run around with my can of Lysol, none ever got the hint.  At my sister's medical office, m-wave popcorn is forbidden under threat of discipline, as is any kind of fish!

 

Liver=cat food.  Once I lost a bet to my late husband on the World Series.  Bet was to prepare dinner-of-choice for the other.  His request:  Liver with bacon & onions. OK, I bought the "meat", following recipe in "Joy Of Cooking".  Soak in milk, dredge in flour.  Cook bacon & onions in frypan, then braise liver not-too-long. Charlie was on the verge of vomiting the entire time!  I made a broiled steak for myself and arranged a pretty centerpiece so I didn't have to watch my Mike eating my creation.  He said it was the best he ever had!

 

I told him I'm glad he enjoyed it, because it was the LAST time I'd be making it!
 

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