Cooking fish

amstel2

Hello

Don'y know if tis is the right forum.

When I cook fish even if I wrap it in foil the kitchen & living room smell of fish for several days after. Even with the windows open & using various air fresheners nothing seems to shift it until it just fades on its own.

Apart from the obvious of stop cooking Fish does anyone have any ideas of how to stop/get rid of the smell?

Thanks

redfox

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Rainy-Days

Not sure if one of those Price's kitchen candles might help you - think they are in a tin, but you can pick them up in Wilko's I think. I burn those wax tarts after I have been cooking strong smelling stuff.

Things like a fry up or something garlic that tends to have a strong odour about it - you need something like a yankee wax tart I get mine off eBay but you could by them individually from a garden centre and see how you go! Think the scent like lemon lavender might be enough to do the job!

You are doing the right though keeping the doors shut and the window ajar! Some extractor fans do the job of removing smells others not so!

Weird isn't it when it's cooking it smells devine and you can't wait to eat it, when you have finished you want shot of the pong!

Ohh nearly forgot to add that I wipe my kitchen surfaces down with that Flash spray with febreeze in it -it's a blue one can't remember what scent it is possibly cotton something but it does a good job of dealing with the after cooking smells!

SailorSam

I like any fish, i eat it at least 2/3 times a week. Mostly i'll cook it in the microwave between 2 plates in a little bit of water.

clickerty-click

Check that there are no fishy bits left in the waste pipes of your sink we had a fishy smell problem and hubby found that this was causing the problem.

missbiggles1

SailorSam wrote: »

I like any fish, i eat it at least 2/3 times a week. Mostly i'll cook it in the microwave between 2 plates in a little bit of water.

Doesn't that only work with fillets of white fish?

SailorSam

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Doesn't that only work with fillets of white fish?

I do kippers; yellow fish and salmon as well as white fish, Then whole (not fillets) mackeral and herring.

suki1964

The smell can also linger in the filter of the extractor

When I cook curry I always have to take down the filter and wash it out else the smell lingers for days

Stevie_Palimo

I have used the roasting bags before that are fairly airtight, They do help a bit when cooking fish alternatively I would grill things like salmon and so on which does not smell.

Mr_Singleton

amstel2 wrote: »

Hello
Apart from the obvious of stop cooking Fish does anyone have any ideas of how to stop/get rid of the smell?

Goes without saying that the fish your cooking is fresh isn't it?

firefox1956

Thats your problem the fish is not fresh...........it may appear to be but I can asure you that really fresh fish will leave no cooking smell whatsoever.