What food do you enjoy eating but hate the smell of?
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Eggs smell so bad cooking but taste so good.
Broccoli too.
Yeah why does eggs cooking smell like wet, microwaved dogs?
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I don’t think I have any. Im pretty picky and is something smells bad I can’t move on to eat it.
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Stinky cheeses are all I can think of that fit the bill. Limberger is really good, but smells like dirty feet. Though, it’s nowhere near the pungency cartoons always made it seem like as a kid.
Mostly, tho, smell highly influences the taste. If it smells bad, it usually tastes bad too.
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I heard it’s because pigs are genetically similar to us.
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Anything with black salt in it. Eggs don’t bother me, but the extra sulfurous scent in black salt is so off-putting to me. Tasty when used right, tho!
Used to be able to say natto, but it’s so tasty, cheap and nutritious that I’ve overcome my aversion and now it smells good to me.
Honorary mention to Swedish cod roe paste (Kalles). I, personally, didn’t mind the smell, but my roommate would call it “pussy paste”. She was more nose sensitive, it seemed, though, as she was the only roommate who very politely asked me to wait until she’d eaten before I prepared the natto.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It smells like feet but tastes terrible
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Overly ripe papayas.
Always smell like rot. Taste like magic.
What do regular papayas taste like?
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I like eating the candied jalapeños. They also smell fine once canned.
Cooking them is bad as it’s vinegar, more vinegar, a lot of vinegar, and hot vinegar and turmeric and jalapeños makes the kitchen feel deadly lmao.
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The smell of peanut butter is terrible, but I love eating it.
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Yeah, came here to say this. East Asia has a whole collection of sauces based on fermented fish that taste amazing and have no offensive smell when cooked, but dear God, the smell of the stuff before it’s cooked is horrifying.
EDIT: I guess I should clarify, for anyone who hasn’t had it. It’s not so much that fish sauce itself tastes delicious alone, but it has a ton of umami flavor. Same sort of stuff you get from, say, powdered boletes mushrooms or MSG. It makes savory dishes just taste way better when you add it to them.
I’m guessing oyster sauce is another? I suspect it’s one of those magic ingredients that makes restaurant Pad Thai so good, but I’ve been hesitant to buy a bottle of my own.
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Vinegar is pretty universally hated a scent. Most foods wouldn’t be the same without it.
I like the smell of most vinegars. Maybe I’m just weird though. Especially the smell of vinegar on fried foods.
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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.
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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.
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What do regular papayas taste like?
If they’re not as ripe, less magic.
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Fish Sauce.
Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.
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.
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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.