I don't mean to be disrespectful of Indian culture: My one flatmate makes great tasting Indian food, but the entire apartment smells for DAYS of "body odor", even after opening the window and burning candles. It gets into the clothes, sheets, and towels and drives the two non-cookers nuts! We don't want to ban Indian food and my flatmate is willing to leave out the offensive spice. We all did a sniff test, and no one spice seems to be the culprit. For some reason, it does not have an "Indian food" smell, it smells of sweat. Yuck! We have other Indian food enthusiasts and their homes don't have the problem. The smell is embarassing and VERY HARD to get rid of. He cooks mainly lentils...is it the lentils that are giving off the smell? He has a damaged sense of smell so he needs to spice heavily and isn't as aware of the overly offensive odor.
We are DESPERATE for tips on:
- which spice to cut out
- how to lessen smells while cooking
- how to help get rid of the smell after
2007-11-27
14:54:42
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H. R
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Ethnic Cuisine