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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
last night we had bacon burgers.
Bacon, or course, has the best smell as it cooks- but i noticed after dinner that the remaining bacon grease smell is bad.
Is the great/bad smell distinction due to anticipation? like before you will be eating bacon is what the smell says, but later there is no more bacon (think post o porno) or is bacon grese only a good smell at high temps?
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I think it's about freshness rather than temperature. It's like how a woodfire smells great when it's burning but the residue has a different composition from the smoke.
Two solutions, by the way. As for bacon specifically, you can bake it by putting it on parchment paper on a jelly roll pan. That will reduce the cooking odors. Otherwise, you can put a shallow, wide-mouthed bowl of white vinegar next to the stove as you are cooking and it will absorb the odors so that they don't linger in the house. The house will still smell good like Bacon! while you're cooking, but not so bad afterward. This only works if you can stand the smell of vinegar, although it shouldn't be overpowering -- it will only smell like vinegar near the stove.
