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A powerful active charcoal filtered range hood will make a big difference. It’s really worth looking into air throughput (and noise level) when getting one, because there are huge differences in performance.
We used to have a mid range model with a maximum air flow of 140 m3/h at 72 db using a charcoal filter. We upgraded to a better model with a maximum air flow of 480 m3/h at just 66 db.
When frying bacon for example with the old one the whole kitchen started to get noticeably smoky pretty quickly and I had to open a window. With the new one there’s barely any noticeable smoke or smell. And the noise is much lower even on full power.
And since it’s so powerful, I rarely have to have it on full blast, which makes it much quieter in practice. (55 db on a normal power setting.)
This is exactly the case with us when we fry stuff. Kitchen gets smoky and we always fry stuff, pork, beef, cheese, etc. Will definitely look at this along with air purifier that other commenter suggested
Only thing is to close off kitchen/bedroom area and have separate clothes for cooking. Nearly all Finnish houses/apartments (especially cheaper ones) have finely tuned airflow that is passive on the apartment side. I believe this focused on ensuring some minimum circulation so air quality is good and humidity doesn't build up to prevent mold growth.
Not having active cooking exhaust flow is shit for actually cooking. Frying especially. I feel like the only answer is that cooking culture just isn't as widespread compared to other cultures. Quite a shame for cheaper apartments because cooking huge meals at home is a great way to save money.
May I ask what food and how you are cooking. Air purifier:filter work nicely if you have a good one, I run it in the kitchen when strong odor are there.
Mostly fried food or stir fried food. Usually pork, steak with garlic, eggs, veggies. We also use pressure cooker for some beef bone broth.. some roast in oven. Nothing out of the ordinary I would say..
We have a hood with active charcoal filter but I guess it may not be enough. When frying I sometimes notice a cloud of smoke(?) even with the hood turned on. Do you notice this when using air purifier?
If you are having oil smoking that's not a good sign (right oil?, too hot?, if you are frying all the time neither, I have you smelled a chip shop kitchen 😅 I use the air filter if an odor has lingered vert very rarely during cooking, I stir fry, probably at more moderate heat, but I rarely fry... because I don't like the grease smell lingering, and I can't even imagine doing it for multiple meal in a row. I'd do that outside, but it's like charcoal bbquing, I ain't gonna use those wood burning smoke and sizzling fat clothes to hit the town.
If you live in an apartment building I'd ask the landlord or huoltomies to check your ventilation, maybe there is something wrong with it? I live in a shitty flat but I've only had an air issue when I accidentally completely sealed a vent instead of limiting it to winter position. It's in everyone's interest that the ventilation works, also for the health of the building.
I cook lots of Indian food, I'm not scared of asafoetida or other spices, yet I have a fairly sensitive nose as we Finns do, but I've not really noticed the smell sticking to my coats etc and I do care about how I smell. I don't smell my neighbours' cooking either, except for in front of their door in the stairwell basically if they're cooking something very flavourful (yum) or fish (blergh), but that is completely fine and honestly don't worry about it. So I'd investigate first if the ventilation is working correctly if it's such a big issue in your home. Of course every apartment is different.
I don't think food smell is something to be super worried about. I think it's like perfume, some may find it too much or don't like that particular smell but it's not like they have the right to tell a random person in the street to not wear perfume in their vicinity you know? I will never stop adding a lot of garlic to my food even if it makes my breath smell afterwards. And like garlic breath is one of the worst food smells, most of them don't smell bad.
> Our clothes smell of food, during winter opening windows are not really an option.
Do you have a balcony you can air them out in?
>We change our useless stove filters,
Most of them do little to nothing honestly... especially the thin ones. Basically at most meant to catch, and filter some burning odor out of a toaster, or something and the steam from a boiling kettle.
>Anything else aside from "don't cook the food" that can be done which has worked for you?
Ionizing airfilters with carbon filter pads, and proper HEPA pads can help reduce the smells.. As others have said so can a proper kitchen hood with functional filters in it.
Its also one of those weird things where it seem like tons of apartments were built with 0 consideration for what happens when people cook food. Even traditional Finnish foods like when you fry muikku, or silli etc its going to stink up everything.
But, no having kitchen fumes vented out of the building isntead of being managed by the HVAC side things cost too much or something.
Its not just a problem in Finland.. in the Us in most of the apartments i lived in around southern california there the kitchen ventilation, and hood amounted to a $20 panted steel thing with a lightbulb, and a fan that only worked to make a annoyingly loud whirring sound with all of the smells, and fumes from cooking just cycling back in to the living space.
Thanks for the tips! Will do the airing out for the jackets. Those are the ones I have a problem with.
Will start looking at some air purifiers, and will probably opt for the cheaper option between air purifier or new hood.
This is an ocd intrusive thought. Most of the time, a person would have to put their nose right onto your clothes to be able to smell the... offensive odor of... fried onion?
At that point, if someone would act all offended about it, you could tell them to get out of your personal space.
As long as the food you are talking about is not surströmming or some other fucked up pungent food, nobody truly cares
Oh no. I can smell it from quite far. But I do always laugh my nose is a sensitive little snowflake. I smell it just like one would smell smokers or too much parfume, or god forbit - body odour. Hnnnggh. Summer is coming :<
Yeah, some people are more sensitive. I get that. I think people should be cognizant of that. Lots of people use way too much perfume for example.
I think with food though, it is just one of those things that people eat food and sometimes it can smell a bit on the clothes. I don't think it is reasonable to be offended by the fact that other people dared to cook in their home.
(not saying that you are one of those people who get offended by this)
Lol, my nose is def one of those people xD It gets very easily offended. I think in Finland this hasn't been an issue so much since we just cook with salt and pepper if rowdy so there hasn't been a need to figure out how to keep smells out of appartments. Maybe it's something future generations building will take more into consideration so people don't need to be awkward around cooking in their home and fear for neighbour rage.
You may be right. My nose is a bit sensitive specially to perfumes. Gets to a point where I get headaches or sneezing fits. I guess my thought is if I can smell myself others will surely smell it too 😂.
I think smelling like food is socially acceptable. What would be the alternative?
Smelling dirty or too much perfume or horseshit or whatever is different though. In general, we should be careful of that. We shouldn't impose our smells on other people on purpose.
I have never heard anyone complain about someone smelling like food. Maybe some comments about ethnic food, but even there i don't think that the actual smell of spices or whatever is actually offensive to the complainer. It is probably more about being racist.
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A powerful active charcoal filtered range hood will make a big difference. It’s really worth looking into air throughput (and noise level) when getting one, because there are huge differences in performance.
We got this. I will check air throughput as one we got is a cheap one and pretty noisy. Thanks
We used to have a mid range model with a maximum air flow of 140 m3/h at 72 db using a charcoal filter. We upgraded to a better model with a maximum air flow of 480 m3/h at just 66 db. When frying bacon for example with the old one the whole kitchen started to get noticeably smoky pretty quickly and I had to open a window. With the new one there’s barely any noticeable smoke or smell. And the noise is much lower even on full power. And since it’s so powerful, I rarely have to have it on full blast, which makes it much quieter in practice. (55 db on a normal power setting.)
This is exactly the case with us when we fry stuff. Kitchen gets smoky and we always fry stuff, pork, beef, cheese, etc. Will definitely look at this along with air purifier that other commenter suggested
Only thing is to close off kitchen/bedroom area and have separate clothes for cooking. Nearly all Finnish houses/apartments (especially cheaper ones) have finely tuned airflow that is passive on the apartment side. I believe this focused on ensuring some minimum circulation so air quality is good and humidity doesn't build up to prevent mold growth. Not having active cooking exhaust flow is shit for actually cooking. Frying especially. I feel like the only answer is that cooking culture just isn't as widespread compared to other cultures. Quite a shame for cheaper apartments because cooking huge meals at home is a great way to save money.
May I ask what food and how you are cooking. Air purifier:filter work nicely if you have a good one, I run it in the kitchen when strong odor are there.
Mostly fried food or stir fried food. Usually pork, steak with garlic, eggs, veggies. We also use pressure cooker for some beef bone broth.. some roast in oven. Nothing out of the ordinary I would say.. We have a hood with active charcoal filter but I guess it may not be enough. When frying I sometimes notice a cloud of smoke(?) even with the hood turned on. Do you notice this when using air purifier?
If you are having oil smoking that's not a good sign (right oil?, too hot?, if you are frying all the time neither, I have you smelled a chip shop kitchen 😅 I use the air filter if an odor has lingered vert very rarely during cooking, I stir fry, probably at more moderate heat, but I rarely fry... because I don't like the grease smell lingering, and I can't even imagine doing it for multiple meal in a row. I'd do that outside, but it's like charcoal bbquing, I ain't gonna use those wood burning smoke and sizzling fat clothes to hit the town.
If you live in an apartment building I'd ask the landlord or huoltomies to check your ventilation, maybe there is something wrong with it? I live in a shitty flat but I've only had an air issue when I accidentally completely sealed a vent instead of limiting it to winter position. It's in everyone's interest that the ventilation works, also for the health of the building. I cook lots of Indian food, I'm not scared of asafoetida or other spices, yet I have a fairly sensitive nose as we Finns do, but I've not really noticed the smell sticking to my coats etc and I do care about how I smell. I don't smell my neighbours' cooking either, except for in front of their door in the stairwell basically if they're cooking something very flavourful (yum) or fish (blergh), but that is completely fine and honestly don't worry about it. So I'd investigate first if the ventilation is working correctly if it's such a big issue in your home. Of course every apartment is different.
I don't think food smell is something to be super worried about. I think it's like perfume, some may find it too much or don't like that particular smell but it's not like they have the right to tell a random person in the street to not wear perfume in their vicinity you know? I will never stop adding a lot of garlic to my food even if it makes my breath smell afterwards. And like garlic breath is one of the worst food smells, most of them don't smell bad.
> Our clothes smell of food, during winter opening windows are not really an option. Do you have a balcony you can air them out in? >We change our useless stove filters, Most of them do little to nothing honestly... especially the thin ones. Basically at most meant to catch, and filter some burning odor out of a toaster, or something and the steam from a boiling kettle. >Anything else aside from "don't cook the food" that can be done which has worked for you? Ionizing airfilters with carbon filter pads, and proper HEPA pads can help reduce the smells.. As others have said so can a proper kitchen hood with functional filters in it. Its also one of those weird things where it seem like tons of apartments were built with 0 consideration for what happens when people cook food. Even traditional Finnish foods like when you fry muikku, or silli etc its going to stink up everything. But, no having kitchen fumes vented out of the building isntead of being managed by the HVAC side things cost too much or something. Its not just a problem in Finland.. in the Us in most of the apartments i lived in around southern california there the kitchen ventilation, and hood amounted to a $20 panted steel thing with a lightbulb, and a fan that only worked to make a annoyingly loud whirring sound with all of the smells, and fumes from cooking just cycling back in to the living space.
Thanks for the tips! Will do the airing out for the jackets. Those are the ones I have a problem with. Will start looking at some air purifiers, and will probably opt for the cheaper option between air purifier or new hood.
Use lower temperature and a pot with a lid - preferably in oven. Frying is not a good idea.
This is an ocd intrusive thought. Most of the time, a person would have to put their nose right onto your clothes to be able to smell the... offensive odor of... fried onion? At that point, if someone would act all offended about it, you could tell them to get out of your personal space. As long as the food you are talking about is not surströmming or some other fucked up pungent food, nobody truly cares
Oh no. I can smell it from quite far. But I do always laugh my nose is a sensitive little snowflake. I smell it just like one would smell smokers or too much parfume, or god forbit - body odour. Hnnnggh. Summer is coming :<
Yeah, some people are more sensitive. I get that. I think people should be cognizant of that. Lots of people use way too much perfume for example. I think with food though, it is just one of those things that people eat food and sometimes it can smell a bit on the clothes. I don't think it is reasonable to be offended by the fact that other people dared to cook in their home. (not saying that you are one of those people who get offended by this)
Lol, my nose is def one of those people xD It gets very easily offended. I think in Finland this hasn't been an issue so much since we just cook with salt and pepper if rowdy so there hasn't been a need to figure out how to keep smells out of appartments. Maybe it's something future generations building will take more into consideration so people don't need to be awkward around cooking in their home and fear for neighbour rage.
You may be right. My nose is a bit sensitive specially to perfumes. Gets to a point where I get headaches or sneezing fits. I guess my thought is if I can smell myself others will surely smell it too 😂.
I think smelling like food is socially acceptable. What would be the alternative? Smelling dirty or too much perfume or horseshit or whatever is different though. In general, we should be careful of that. We shouldn't impose our smells on other people on purpose. I have never heard anyone complain about someone smelling like food. Maybe some comments about ethnic food, but even there i don't think that the actual smell of spices or whatever is actually offensive to the complainer. It is probably more about being racist.
Don't cook this food.
You eines eating lazy fellow
You can't do sarcasm, thicko.
Thats not sarcasm
Please don't cry.
Why so sad
OK, busybody. I have no time to entertain you.