Yea I know the exhaust fan is an issue. Ours does not exhaust outside - I wish it did. Someday we’ll make that change. Then maybe an air fryer will be a better idea.
Zelski is correct - it smell like you’re running a french fry restaurant in your house. It took about 5 days for the smell to dissipate.
Are you able to cook anything in your house? Because it doesn’t sound like it’s possible, not with a recirculating exhaust fan and a sensitivity to cooking odors.
Seriously. French fries smell great. Why not keep smelling them for a while?
Because you smell any oil droplets much longer than you smell the potatoes.
Still don’t see the problem
After I come home from many restaurants and pubs, my hair and jacket will stink of French fry grease from the air. It’s not the same smell as potatoes alone, it’s mostly cooked grease. Obviously you don’t mind it. Others do.
Yeah, that would make a world of difference. When we remodeled our kitchen the contractor was advising that it’d be easier to relocate the vent-a-hood if we didn’t get one that vented outside. I replied that I didn’t care, I wanted it to vent outside. I can buy air filters without hiring him to install them, after all. In the case of things like yesterday when I cleaned a pipe and the scent of tar saturated ethanol was hanging out in the kitchen, having it vent outside seems indispensable to me.
Heck, we had them install a fan that vents externally in the laundry room adjacent to the kitchen, to boot. It comes in handy when the vent-a-hood doesn’t seem to be clearing out the room quickly enough - like the time I roasted some fresh chilies in a frying pan with no oil (yes, I am brilliant sometimes). That was like pepper spraying the whole room, and that one use of the fan was worth the expense. I could clear out the cloud and return to finish making dinner in just a few minutes.
The ‘Luxury’ condo I have does not have a externally vented kitchen fan.
And they refuse to allow one to be installed.
The last time I went to graduate school I went to a Welcome Weekend the prior April because I surely wanted to look at apartment choices. Because of that, the following two years, I was put in charge of apartment search for Welcome Weekend. I had all of my notes and I put them together as a little book for the department to use.
I got a lot of flack from my classmates and the later classes because the first two items I mentioned for every apartment was 1) Is there external exhaust? and 2) is there cross ventilation?
The third was: Does it have natural gas?
You got flak* from them because they didn’t agree that those should be the first three questions when seeking accommodations?
*flak is anti-aircraft fire, metaphorically criticism. A Flack is a spokesperson.
*Spokes-goose.
Very true. Thanks for the correction!
Of course I’m able to cook in my house. There are just certain cooking smells that I hate. Most of the time an open window or in the winter a lit candle will get rid of the odors. Hot oil/frying is a smell that takes a long time to disappear. I can even smell it on my purse when I’m at work! We don’t normally pan fry any of our food. If we do burgers or steaks, we do them on the outdoor grill. I would never fry chicken because of the smell and the mess. I have a recipe for oven fried chicken that is really good. We’re not fish fry people either. Bacon is eaten maybe once every couple of months and then I either get the pre-cooked kind or if I have to make a lot of it, I do it in the oven.
Last week, I was watching Restaurant Impossible. Robert Irvine was asked what he has in his fridge. He listed a few items and then said that he always has the microwavable bacon in his fridge because he hates the smell of bacon lingering in the house for days. Thank you, Robert! I’m guessing Robert Irvine has the proper ventilation in his kitchen…and it still bothers him.
And married to Jennifer Garner.
I just baked a chicken leg quarter in the air fryer for the first time. Amazingly crispy skin. Perfectly cooked, tender interior. Wow. I love this thing.
Last night I cooked tuna steaks on the grill and made zucchini fritters in the air fryer.
The zucchini fritters were excellent! I lined the fryer basket with parchment paper and that made the difference. I was able to (barehanded) lift the paper out of the basket and then work with the fritters easily.
Oo, I’d be interested in your recipe. I put some slices of zucchini in the air fryer and they kind of just shriveled away.
I had a pile of zucchini and never looked at a recipe. I shredded two zucchini, salted it , let it stand a while, then squeezed out the liquid. I then just puttered around, adding various spices, a beaten egg, some flour, and some breadcrumbs. I cooked an ear of corn and sliced off the kernels, added them.
I air fried fritters on parchment in the basket after spraying the tops with PAM at 380 for 12 minutes. I did not flip them.