Funny that there’s not much noticeable smell frying eggs.
But boiling eggs a smell is very noticeable. Especially if you’re cooking a dozen at a time for Easter eggs.
I recall puking one day when I was about 10. Went in the kitchen and mom was boiling a bunch of eggs for egg salad. The smell hit me right between the eyes and I lost it.
A guy at work used to parch raw peanuts in the microwave. I loved the smell. A lady in the office hated it and complained to our boss. That was the end of the peanuts.
Deer meat has an odd cooking smell. It’s not repulsive to me, just a little off putting.
The way people perceive smells is fascinating. What bugs me others like.
What wonderful cooking smells do you find repulsive?
Boiling a chicken carcass for soup stock. Not sure if it’s because one ti e we left the pot on the back of the stove and forgot about it for a couple of days. The smell was so bad it went in the garbage, pot and all. Or if I’ve always been nauseated by the smell.
I hate the smell of brownies baking. They’re so sickly sweet and the smell permeates the entire house. After they’re baked I love them, but during BLECH!
Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower. Anything that smells like a fart even before you eat it is disgusting. And fried chicken livers. It was a mixed blessing whenever mom made those for dad. On one hand, it stank up the house. On the other, the rest of us got to eat out that night.
I have A LOT of food dislikes but I assume the OP is referring to food we otherwise like, yes? I love making chili, pasta sauce and tacos but I am sickened by the smell of meat browning. Oddly enough, I like the smell of steak cooking. The smell of butter being heated is repulsive so much so that some days I forgo eating eggs. Also, a curry is one of my favorite dishes but the smell is stomach turning if I’m not actually the one eating it. Probably the one people will find the oddest is my hatred of the sickeningly sweet smell of those Cinnabon shops you find in malls.
Yes. I hate that cabbage smell, and cabbage cooked until it smells like that is going to taste rank, too.
Asafoetida. Curry powders that contain it can taste good, but they do stink.
I generally can’t stand the smell of breakfast meats (yes, including bacon) cooking early in the morning. My stomach just can’t handle that that early.
Once or twice a week I boil a pound of turkey livers for use as dog treats. I hate the smell, as does my gf. Yet we like the taste of liver. She made liver stroganoff the other night and it was awesome.
Boiled cabbage was my first thought upon reading the OP.
Also, since my maternal unit was a bad cook, the small of boiled turnip greens is still repulsive to me. Now my dear bride cooks wonderfully, and I love turnip greens the way she cooks them, but boiling them until they are little more than sludge is very unappealing to my taste and smell.
I grew up around a lot of cabbage eaters, and I can’t say that the smell of cooking cabbage disgusts me. Again, if it smells rank while boiling, it’s probably waaaayyy overcooked.
But eggs. God Almighty, I hate the smell of cooking eggs. Not boiling eggs–cooking eggs. I love to eat eggs, and I adore a good omelette, but I almost have to leave the room while they’re cooking. I hate, hate, hate the smell of eggs frying or being scrambled or omelettes cooking or whatever. It just smells beyond vile and foul to me. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I think it stems from an old roommate I had who was a pathetic cook, and every time he cooked eggs he inevitably slopped some over the side of the pan onto the burners. Burnt eggs. Which he’d never clean off, so the next time I turned on the burner I’d be assaulted with BURNT EGG STENCH.
Another vote for liver. It’s not so much the smell of cooking I mind - I just hate the smell of raw liver. But I like eating liver once it’s cooked. Which is why my favorite way of preparing liver is having somebody else do it.
But I can’t stand the stuff anyway, so it’s likely not what the OP is after. But I could have screamed that one time I was flying in some Boeing Behemoth and this Indian family came on board with curried dishes. I was so pissed I refused to give up my window seat so they could sit together.
