Fish Sauce.
Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.
We call it feet sauce in my house
The first person to think “hmm couple drops of this fish sauce in what I’m cookin might be good” had to be a little crazy. They were 100% right though lol.
Eggs smell so bad cooking but taste so good.
Broccoli too.
Yeah why does eggs cooking smell like wet, microwaved dogs?
This post brought to you by the acorn squash I just sliced. See also roasted red peppers and cilantro. I don’t have the soap thing, but it do be like a stink bug sometimes.
My wife totally has the soap thing, and I must be a carrier for that gene, because I can see where the soapy flavor is coming from, but it doesn’t bug me.
For the smell/taste thing, I have the opposite. I love the smell of roasting coffee… can’t stand coffee.
Ditto unsmoked tobacco, smells amazing, cannot tolerate smoking.
unsmoked tobacco, smells amazing
Agree completely on this. Pipe tobacco in particular always smells great (but can’t stand the smell of smoke).
It’s one of life’s little injustices that coffee never tastes as good as it smells.
do be like a stink bug sometimes
Seems to be certain times of the year here (US South). Sometimes we go months without a bunch that smells like them, and other times it’s every bunch for a month (and we almost always have a bunch in the fridge).
Lentils. May be a combo of being sick/smelling them all the time but I literally have to open all the windows when I boil them
Really don’t care for cabbage. My mom always said it smells like pig slop, not that I’ve ever smelled pig slop. But yeah I never liked it and I think that had something to do with it lol.
I came to vote for cooked cabbage. Love it in lots of things, but hate the cabbage stink and that keeps me from making it more often.
Cannot confirm nor deny it smelling like pig slop. 😁
Personally I love some cabbage and sausage cooked up in a nice fresh chicken broth. But I definitely can see where the smell would be a turn off for a lot of people 🤣
Vinegar is pretty universally hated a scent. Most foods wouldn’t be the same without it.
All vinegars or just white vinegar?
I use it a decent bit and have rice, cider, malt, coconut, and balsamic and think they all smell pretty good. It may be my brain just associating the smell with the finished product though.
White vinegar I only use for cleaning, so I still think that is nasty smelling.
All vinegar smell seems to be universally hated. It does add the right acidity when needed and you don’t have citrus around though.
I don’t know about universal. My partner hates it but I don’t, and I don’t think anyone in my family does either. It’s a sharp scent for sure, but I adapt to it pretty quickly.
Gonna need a source on that universal hate.
I like the smell of most vinegars. Maybe I’m just weird though. Especially the smell of vinegar on fried foods.
Doesn’t bother me either. Just reminds me of food and salad dressing.
Why does pesto smell like feet yet taste so delicious?
Probably the cheese (depending on the recipe). Parmesan has aroma compounds also found in other less desirable substances.
Yup. Butyric acid, it’s what makes parm and Hershey’s chocolate taste like they do, but its also what makes vomit smell like it does.
It smells like feet but tastes terrible
Any kind of fermented or pickled radish or daikon, smells like a fart, tastes like heaven.
Overly ripe papayas.
Always smell like rot. Taste like magic.
What do regular papayas taste like?
If they’re not as ripe, less magic.
I could never eat papaya at any stage of ripeness without a generous squeeze of lime, it’s just so bad.
Butterfish It is delicious but smells so bad that nobody in my family wants to cook it at their house so we would go to our grandparents’. The aroma lingers for more than a day if you don’t properly aerate the place. Febreeze, candles and other air fresheners do not work.
Bagoóng It is a Filipino condiment made of shrimp paste. There are other variations but still stinky.
Durian @DisOne@lemmy.zip is right about the heavenly durian milkshakes! My siblings and I would eat them outside — we weren’t allowed to bring them inside the house.
There were signs all over my hotel in Thailand prohibiting the consumption of durian on the premises.
LOL, yes! And in buses as well.
I don’t eat meat anymore, but when I did the smell of bacon frying would literally make me sick. Came very close to hurling once just from frying bacon in a pan. I still liked the bacon itself though.
I think pig generally smells pretty bad while cooking.
I heard it’s because pigs are genetically similar to us.
Pate. The smell of chicken liver is awful.
Did you know KFC used to sell deep fried chicken liver in some areas? My mom was crazy for it 🫣
I can imagine that it melts in the mouth, but i feel sorry for anybody in the vicinity when they were cooking it!
Durian smells so bad, but durian milkshake is just heaven
This is exactly what I came here to say. Put a lid on that milkshake and I will scarf it down.
Am I the only weirdo that enjoys the smell, too? I acknowledge that it’s strong and there is a good reason why it’s not allowed indoors in many places, but when it’s outside I dig it.
I just had some in Malaysia last week. So good!
Tripe. I can’t stand the smell while menudo is cooking but it’s so damn tasty!
i love andouillette but this is definitely something to cook leewards.
Tum mak hoong, in a way. To anyone not from SEA, it can be quite off putting. Being formerly married to a Laotian woman, I got used to the smells pretty quick. Now all of that fermented stuff smells good to me.
Some of the ingredients, on their own, have very powerful aromas. Fish sauce is the one people would know off hand. Also used is shrimp paste and crab paste, which are very pungent.
However, when combined with the rest of the ingredients, it creates this awesome papaya salad. Depending upon how many peppers you put in, the heat level can be insane.
My then-MIL originally taught me to make it with fish sauce, crab paste, and shrimp paste. Another family member taught me to make it with Padaek, which is an ingredient that you store in a bag, in a bag. It is some gnarly stuff, with chunks of fermented fish mixed in it, so you know it’s good. Kidding aside, it provides some truly amazing flavors. But dear lord, it is pretty rank.
Highly recommend trying Tum Mak Hoong! Laotian food is so good. When you order the papaya salad, make sure you order Laap to go with it.
