Student tenant, forgot soup on the stove.

Guest101

Look, your landlord cant chuck you out, and you can deal with this in June, enjoy your christmas and dont worry.

(i remember my first rental property...)

pinkteapot

Valentas wrote: »

My roommates said they cannot smell anything

Then why do they want to tell the landlord?!

G_M

leave cut up onions around. They absorb smells.

molerat

G_M wrote: »

leave cut up onions around. They absorb smells.

+1
This what we used to do after using gloss paint.

Or get a huge pot of curry on the stove

CACHAF

We had something similar when my brother left some toast under the grill and forgot about it while staying with us. There was no smoke damage but the smell lasted quite a while. We got rid of it by buying some febreeze, spraying everything including clothes, carpets and so forth and then washing anything washable after the febreeze has dried. Open the windows and air the place and it should clear after that.

If your landlord does comment then remind him that he cannot do anything till your tenancy ends in June and it will be ok. Or just tell him that you burnt the toast that morning and that is what he can smell! If you have cleaned the place as well as you say then he will probably be more shocked at students looking after a rental place that he will be about any slight smell, student rentals usually smell a lot worse than that!

Lord_Baltimore

My only hope is that this was not vegetable soup. Please tell me it wasn't...please, please!

Valentas

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

My only hope is that this was not vegetable soup. Please tell me it wasn't...please, please!

Sorry, it was. :} No meat was involved in being burned.

goggle

get the doors/windows open & give the room a huge blast of fresh air
If you wipe down the surfaces with hot soapy water & change the cooker hood filter that should be enough (oh, and empty the bin of where you put the burnt stuff!)

RAS

Given what I did recently with some meat that ended up as charcoal, stop worrying.

It took about a week for the smell to disappear.

As everyone has said, start by cooking something that smells nice, even if it is coffee and bread, or make a curry.

Leave onions around.

Also burn candles; this is used to reduce the stink from cigs so will reduce the smell. But please do not leave them on a combustable surface and supervise them.

Where are the pot and burned veggies now, exactly.

Valentas

RAS wrote: »

Given what I did recently with some meat that ended up as charcoal, stop worrying.

It took about a week for the smell to disappear.

As everyone has said, start by cooking something that smells nice, even if it is coffee and bread, or make a curry.

Leave onions around.

Also burn candles; this is used to reduce the stink from cigs so will reduce the smell. But please do not leave them on a combustable surface and supervise them.

Where are the pot and burned veggies now, exactly.

In the trash container outside. With trash bags. I took out anything the vegetables and a pot touched. Except the stove of course.