Cooking smell all over apartment- Please suggest remedies!!!

check if this helps...My BIL used to close all the doors of the rooms...especially the closet door so that his dresses/bed and things do no smell ginger and garlic...Hope this helps

 

Keep a lighted candle beside the stove while cooking items with strong odor [ onion/ garlic/non.veg]. You can also use scented candles, which I've tried many times, esp. while deep frying. It is very very effective solution. Try and see

 

As Dewdrop suggested candles are good. I don't cook much with masalas but still our cooking is pungent. we switch on the kitchen exhaust, open windows and also have an air purifier that cleans the air and keeps the smells out. But before we got the purifier I would switch on the exhaust fans in the bathrooms, keep those doors open while keeping all other doors shut. That way those are extra exhausts.

After I am done cooking, I clean up, leave the exhaust on and light some agarbathi ....that helps to kind of keep the smells down.

 

These are something we do to keep odor away
1. Close bedroom & closet doors to avoid odor from spreading on to clothes & bedlinens/curtains etc
2. Use an exhaust during cooking
3. Open all possible windows & doors to "air-out" the odor out of home,
4. light candles inside home (we do this for fish curry ;-) )
5. Vacate the trash can immediatley after meals - any left-overs while cleaning or after food lingers due to even small amount in trash
6. Run your garbage-disposer adding a lemon to it. This could be done periodically whenever we squeeze lemon. Apparantly running with egg-shells once in a while helps too. We do both
7. Ofcourse, we could always use FeBreeze & Incense-sticks (Agar-pathi) after these to keep the home to smell fresh

Hope these tips helps