Cooking smells

Hi Jaykay,

I use candles while cooking and this absorbs most smell. However what is a genuine problem and for this I use freshners in the closet - so when the jackets are worn in winters, they smell of the freshners. My closet is diagonally opposite to my kitchen and this has worked wonderfully

 

(1) Keep Kitchen fully ventilated - Open all windows while cooking [ during winter, may be for few mins after you finished cooking]
(2) Use candles or potpourri
(3) After cooking, let the exhaust run for a while
(4) If your house is carpeted, you got to steam clean it yearly.
(5) My grandma used to say keeping cut lemons in open for a while after cooking helps too.
(6) Don't hang your clothes used while cooking along with the other ones.

 

Rama
Could you tell me what fresheners you use for the closet. Thanks.

 

Use a cooking apron. It helps a lot.

 

Ac, Jaykay,

I use closet freshners Closet Fresheners also called closet sachets and have found them very effective. I get them from 'garden ridge' with hangers on them - I need about 8-10 of them thru winters. But bedbath&beyond also carries something similar Bed Bath & Beyond Product

Hope this helps.

 

If I am having guests and the house smells of oil and cooking, after all the cooking is done, I boil a pot of water with cinnamon stick, couple of cloves, 1-2 cardamom and ginger. The boiling water absorbs the odor in the air and you smell the spices.

Another trick is making rice at the end of your cooking (I use rice cooker so this works). Add a couple of cardamoms and 1/4 sp full of cummin seeds (geera) to the rice. Only smell you smell after that would be cardamom and cummin.

I try to remember to close all the closet doors, bedroom doors and have the exhaust running in the kitchen and bathrooms. If weather permitting, I even open 2-3 windows, 1 in kitchen and atleast one more somewhere else in the house for circulation.

InduSri

 

hi jaykay,
like srama said...candles will remove the smells..i light up the scented candles in kitchen and living rooms just before starting the cooking... and i found it working good.