Questions tagged [smell]
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Why does rice go bad next day?
I'm using a rice cooker to cook rice and I find the very next day it starts to increasing smell bad and I feel like puking just smelling it.
Not sure what the cause is but the rice cooker has started making funny noises when cooking(though rice…
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How can I prevent my house from smelling like the food I've cooked for hours afterwards?
Often when I cook on the stove top, it will involve something fragrant like garlic, onions, seared meat, etc. I'm fine with smelling it while it cooks, but it seems to permeate the air and linger for hours afterwards. To make matters worse, my house…
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How to cook whitebait without overcooking?
I think I keep on overcooking whitebait. Here is what I am doing:
Quickly bring water to a boil, lower to simmer,
Add whitebait(which may remove simmer since food lowers temp),
move heat to high until water is starts simmering again,
simmer for 1…
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Am I overcooking whitebait in water by using scum as a measure for doneness?
I understand that small fish like whitebait should be cooked in two minutes and anything above is probably overcooking. Of course a better guide is to go by temperature and the fish being opaque.
Well I understand that once the fish is at 145f/63c…
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cake smells bad of egg, is dense and rubbery
This was the first time bake a cake (basic sponge cake) with an electric beater. The final result was that the cake was smelling very bad of eggs, it was was very dense and rubbery.
I dont see this kind of cake in bakery, there the cakes are…
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What spicy ingredients hit the sinuses?
My sinuses are constantly congested.
I know some spices can help with clearing them. However, I also know that some types of spice affect my nose and sinuses while others merely burn my mouth (not helpful at all).
What types of spices hit the…
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How do I get rid of plastic smell in rice / pasta?
I bought a number of bags of rice and pasta and stored it in a plastic bin in the basement. I recently grabbed one of those bags of rice and it smells gross, like plastic. Everything in the bin smells like that. I haven't cooked it yet but in the…
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How long will durian smell linger?
My housemate just brought home a durian. I remember smelling one of these from four floors up in a dormitory years ago and it was overpowering but I don't remember if it faded away quickly or not.
Should I veto him cutting this open in the house?…
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How do I get rid of mayonnaise smell?
Today for the first time, I tested classic egg mayonnaise.
All I can say that it smelled strongly like yeast!
Is there a way to get rid of that smell? Do mayonnaise in general have that smell?
Enlighten please.
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Recently purchased yeast gave dinner rolls weird smell and taste
I purchased a new package of yeast. It's a about a 2x2x3 inch vacuum packed brick of granulated yeast for baking. I've purchased and used it twice before without a problem. It's always had normal taste and smell in the finished bread or rolls. This…
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Reason(s) for poor bread results
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to be gifted a standing mixer.
My first project was James Beard's white bread. The end characteristics that I wish to improve on were:
When attempting to de-loaf the bread to tap the bottom, the top crust…
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What is the optimal height and depth for a hood fan?
In a perfect ventilation world I would have a 27" deep and high powered hood fan that sits as close as possible to the stove (18"?). Unfortunately, this would be tricky as the hood fan would be so deep and low that I'd have trouble seeing the whole…
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How to reproduce the smell of the ocean in cooking?
How might I recreate the smell of the ocean for cooking? I was out today fishing on a Pier in San Francisco and caught both a smelt and crab. The smell of both had that romantic smell of the sea. (I threw both back) I'd like to experiment with…
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What makes sea food have similar smell?
I never ate fish, I always disliked the smell and had a little bit of trauma with my father forcing me to eat it while I was a kid. I had two experiences:
Some years ago, I tried sushi. It doesn't have a strong smell of fish and I found it edible.…
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Why did my hot chocolate stink?
So I ran across a recipe for “crock pot hot chocolate”.
For those of you who are curious it is:
1.5 cups of heavy cream
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups of vanilla chocolate chips
6 cups of milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
I don’t have a crock pot…
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