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Originally Posted by Dr. D
My wife is wonderful (and she may read this thread). However, at home when she cooks certain dishes she is bothered by the lingering smell in the house afterwards. Pan seared salmon is an example.
As we began preparing for more time on the boat and real cooking on the boat, she asked me about whether lingering odors on the boat is a problem and, if so, how to minimize them. I told her I don't have a clue.
Is this really a non-issue with the volume of sailboats and the ease of getting air flow through, or do any of you find cooking ordors hanging around long after cooking? If so, what do you do to minimize this? |
Dishes like pan seared salmon, tend to atomize the fats into the air, carrying the
odor with them, in smaller spaces, the particles don't have to fly very far to adhere to a surface, in bigger spaces, it will simply fall on carpet.
You have three options:
1 - Simply stop searing
fish indoors and rather use the outdoor cooking apparatus (bbq/grill/outdoor stove) as a heat source for your searing needs, there maybe some finagling, but you may have a workable solution. Depending on your shipmates' levels of sailing insanity, this may gain you points for inventive simplicity while being relatively lazy.
2 - Wipe down every surface that atmised
oil may have splattered on, you will need a minimum of 90% of the spots wiped. Use any safe degreasing agent and a sponge or a sponge mop and go at it. This must be done every time you're doing the
fish thing inside. This is a fair bit of
work that had to be done around 1hr after :the searing" hence this may not be ideal because a full belly will impede you.
3 - This stuff, it is wunderbar! https://www.febreze.com/en-us/products/air-effects-hawaiian-aloha-air-freshener
Meet the Febreze Air Effects Hawai'ian Aloha. Does it
work? Oh heck yeah, I have lovely neighbors who partake in the joys of legalized cannabis, the area where they smoke (the balcony) is so close to our living window, that even on a windy night, one can tell what strain they're smoking. Not wanting a shared experience, I simply close the window and spray and bam! Everything literally smells like mai tails, yes, it doesn't smell like Hawai'i but it sure smells like a Tiki bar before people get too drunk. People might end up thinking you're a lush and you may end up craving Mai Tais, but hey, at least the smell is gone and it's
cheap. Don't use Air Wick, their sprays literally enhance odours it seems.
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