I’ve been told that there are separate, dedicated fryers for chicken, fish, and fries. However, I didn’t go into the kitchen and check.
I’m SUPER sensitive to cigarette smoke, and for most of my life my dad has been a chain-smoker, but I’ve never noticed that or even thought of it.
I think it’s more noticeable in foods that sit around in a smoke-filled room. So, if you’re smoking while baking a pie, I don’t think I’d notice the smoke smell/taste in the pie unless you then left the pie on your counter for a day before bringing it to the party.
We had a friend who liked to bring over cookies for our kids. She and her husband were chain smokers, and the stench from the bag of cookies was always really bad. We just lived with the fiction of telling her they were good, while at the same time sending them to the landfill. I guess the smell was in the flour that she had in the cupboard. Man, that house reeked.
I know this is old but I wanted to chime in! I am a previous smoker, haven’t had a stinky stick in over 10 years. My mother in law is a heavy smoker and she sends us rum balls and popcorn balls every fall, and unfortunately, they taste disgustingly like old stale cigarette smoke. It blows because her popcorn balls are amazing, err were? It’s so overbearing now that anything that comes from her house completely reeks of smoke. We usually just end up snapping quick pictures with the items and trashing them.
My very first job was in a restaurant in the 1970s doing the salads, and both of the primary chefs smoked. Seafood guy actually smoked a cigar! I never had their food other than the dinner we got every night which was a choice between burger and London broil. I doubt it would have noticed it because both my parents smoked, and I would have assumed that’s what everything tasted like.
Yes. absolutely. Smoking zombies make the food have a hint of the smoke.
I tend to avoid cookies one particular co-worker brings in. I also don’t partake of the cookies that the person with six cats brings in, as they have cat hair.
Since it crawled out ------------ I have eaten in places where the cook/chef was basically a chain-smoker and never noticed with one exception; the original Vincent’s Pizza. The Old Man had a stick going almost the entire time he was cooking and the ashes had a habit of falling in. This isn’t bull; since the whole “no smoking in restaurants” thing became law here the pizza just isn’t the same. Its not a bad pie but between the haze and ash something just isn’t the same.
I frequently eat at a friend’s house, both she and her husband are heavy smokers. Most of the time I do not taste cigarettes in the food, with the exception of frosted cakes and cupcakes. I think that’s because my friend keeps her cakes and cupcakes on her kitchen island, which is also where she and her husband frequently smoke. He sits on a bar stool and smokes and she either stands at the island and smokes, or puts her cigarette in an ashtray on the island…right next to the food. The smoke drifts onto the food, and the frosting sucks it up, it tastes just like an ashtray smells! Evidently my friends can’t taste the smoke, and I don’t have the heart to tell them. 
I’ve never had, to my knowledge, food made by someone who smoked cigarettes while preparing it, so I can’t say.
I came in here to mention something similar, in a way. During my two-week stint at a factory making refractory (fireproof) cement, I had the honor one day of helping fill and manhandle bags full of damp cement material and stack them on pallets. dirty, exhausting work.
The guy who was actually doing the filling sat on a stool, working an Archimedes screw device* that brought up material from a container full of the stuff to a high point where it could drop into the open bag. He’d guide it in with his hands, covered in heavy rubber gloves. He operated the Archimedes screw with a foot pedal that controlled its electric motor. and all the time he sat there smoking a big cigar. After he finished filling each bag, he’d tap some ashes from the cigar into it, like a benediction, before passing it along to us grunts to seal it and stack it.
I wonder if any of the customers found any difference in the ashes-blessed cement.
When he finished smoking the cigar, he stuffed the whole stub in the last bag.
*I’ve read of Archimedes screw being used to raise water for irrigating crops in the middle east, and seen pictures and films and museum exhibits of it, but this is the first time I actually saw one in use in the U.S. And the first time I’ve seen or heard of it used for something besides water.
Absolutely. We had friends in the military who were Camel chain smokers. It was so bad in their house, that when they were packing up to move to a new duty station, you could see white rectangles on the walls where pictures had hung (the rest of the paint being a yellowish tinge). The wife used to bake cookies and bring them over for our kids. They reeked of cigarette smoke and tasted rank. I was a smoker at the time and they grossed me out. Every batch went into the trash upon her departure.
Yes. Absolutely.
I know the coleslaw to avoid at potlucks.
Ah shit, just realized this is a zombie and posted the same story as from six years ago. At least I’m consistent.