What is your LEAST favorite food cooking smell? (mushrooms, tuna, pizzas)

[gr8doglove]

Originally Posted by MidwesternBookWorm

There are a couple of different ways to spell it, but the definitions can be found here:

Asafoetida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

assafoetida - Wiktionary

Scroll down in the first link to the section on etymology - I particularly like the names it has earned in other languages, e.g. ***** du Diable, Teufelsdreck, and other translations of Devil's Dung.

As I said, the end result is wonderful, but oh, how I hate smelling it while it cooks.

Thanks for posting the links!

Thanks to you I learned something today!

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by happynoodleboycey

I don't get everyone saying broccoli though. Maybe my nose is just shot but I didn't even realise it had a smell when it cooked. I've certainly never noticed it anyway.

Maybe British broccoli isn't as stanky as the American type.

That, or you actually like the smell and don't notice it as much as someone such as myself who likens it to baby ****.

EDIT: Ooops, I should have used poo-poo instead of ****.

[spiderbear]

I forgot to add, I hate the smell of chopped parsley. It's awful and musky and just makes me think of sweaty men.

I'm not too fond of the taste either.

[7G9C4J2]

Originally Posted by spiderbear

I'm not too fond of the taste either.

And because I'm a terrible person, the first thing that sprang to mind when I read that was to wonder whether you were referring to parsley or to sweaty men...

[TKramar]

Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are all supposed to be in the same family. Luckily for me, I can't smell them. My room mate came in after I'd been cooking Brussels sprouts and was like, "WHAT is that SMELL?!"

[dens]

Curry....I love curry chicken but oh my...that smell reeks....once a year I make it...other times I buy it.

I do not like the smell generally of food after it has been cooked in my house...I cook only on Saturdays and I cook at noon and spend the next eight hours doing everything possible to remove the smell...if I leave the house and walk back in to the smell of food, I want to throw up...not sure why it annoys me so much as I love to cook and eat for that matter.

[spiderbear]

Originally Posted by MidwesternBookWorm

And because I'm a terrible person, the first thing that sprang to mind when I read that was to wonder whether you were referring to parsley or to sweaty men...

Depends on which sweaty man..

[§AB]

vegetables being steamed.

[Yvonne1207]

Originally Posted by dens

Curry....I love curry chicken but oh my...that smell reeks....once a year I make it...other times I buy it.

Curry is nasty smelling (but tasty!)

How about liver? I NEVER cook it but I remember when I was a kid and my mom would make it. Ugh.

[ivanabacowboy]

Vegetable, corn and canola oils. Anytime I do anything resembling frying, the smell of hot oil just makes me gag. The only oils I have found tolerable are olive, sesame and peanut-they don't have that same "greasy stink".

Oh yeah-and anytime my son cooks no matter what it is, my house absolutely reeks. And I have no idea why lol! Seafood has to be the worst. I work a long day. I come home and my kitchen smells like overcooked shrimp and scallops. Ewwww....