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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!
 
There used to be a microwave in my mothers business until people started cooking just about anything in there from popcorn to food from the dollar store. It smelled so disgusting and they made a huge mess of it and didn't clean it that we got fed up and I finally removed it. Some years later an employee dug it out of the basement to make soaps with, then the others found it and started making their disgusting shit in it again...
This time my mother had a table set up in the basement to put it on, so they can cook whatever nasty ass food they want now, but in the basement where we won't smell it.
 
RE microwave at work..

DITTO! I hate micro popcorn, I have a perfectly good Presto Automatic popper that makes wonderful P Corn, turns itself off and NEVER burns the corn !
 
Wow, this is turning into another  "Food I hate" thread.  I don't mind cooking smells for the most part, it's part of the process to get the food I like including liver, but the one smell I dislike is browned flour.  Yet I still do it.

 

What is browned flout you ask?  Just that, flour dumped in a pan and heated stirring constantly until it is golden brown.  The only thing I use it in is sauerkraut and sausage.  Old family recipe, used to thicken the mixture and give it a tan-ish color, and it adds to the flavor.  I often wish I had a side burner on my gas grill, I'd do it outside even in the winter.  However with a good vent fan it's not that bad.
 
For cooking really stinky stuff I have both a patio kitchen and a gas rotisserie/BBG on a covered patio. Most meats get cooked out there, especially turkeys, burgers, and steaks. I'll still pan fry things inside, but I use relatively low heat and it's not too stinky. I also enjoy stir frying and generally it's a good idea to use the fan over the cooktop, because mainly of the garlic.

 

And yes the Ling Ling potstickers are good. I prefer the pork ones.
 
Liver!!!!

Count me out!

As with many children of the 1970's our sainted Mother served us liver for dinner. Oh she tried smothering it with onions, trying to pass it off as steak, but my nose and taste buds weren't having it. Sadly for both Big Daddy was also at the dinner table and didn't like seeing his money wasted, nor hearing back talking children for that matter; so one managed to get the liver down. *LOL*

To this day cannot stand the stuff and won't touch it with a barge pole.
 
Charlie,

Re: Liver

 

Your story about making liver sounds exactly as if my wife had written it. She says it has the color of feces in her opinion.
 
 

 

There are many smells that fill the house when cooking, most wonderful, others not so much.   The real issue are those smells that linger looooong after the cooking and clean up has been done.

 

Bacon: the smell really lingers, but doesn't bother me.

 

Fish: unpleasant and lingers for days!

 

Liver:  Ugh, no thanks, pass, Ugh!

 

Chitterlings: I have never cooked, nor will ever knowingly eat them (gross!).   But I was visiting my tenant when I owned a rental property and she was preparing/cleaning c<span style="font-size: 12pt;">hitterlings.  Even though she was only cleaning them, the smell was horrible, as I'm sure you can imagine.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Asian fish sauce:  It does add a wonderful flavor, but you better have "nose plugs" when cooking with it.   Years ago I had a Chinese roommate who cooked a lot.  One day I walked in the door, he was cooking and the smell was overwhelming!   It smelled exactly like a dirty wet dog!    I had to turn around and leave again.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kevin</span>
 
The worst smell

My husband was trying to heat up the honey to get it liquid again. He was heating it in a pan of water on the stove and he forgot about it and left the house while I was still sleeping. I woke up to the smell of burning honey and melting plastic. House reeked for days afterwards (fortunately it was summer so all windows that could be opened were opened)
 
The smell that I hate the most is vinegar. It smells just as bad as silicone that hasn't cured (both contain acetic acid).

 

I don't hate most odors from frying, unless it's too present. I remember friends who had a no vent, charcoal filter hood in their kitchen, a lot of things they cooked of fried smelled bad because it wasn't vented outside.

 

I don't like the odor of mushrooms when they're cooked. I don't like to eat them either or even to see them! 
 

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