What food do you enjoy eating but hate the smell of?
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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.
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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.
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
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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.
Could be, but I haven’t tried that one myself.
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Yeah why does eggs cooking smell like wet, microwaved dogs?
wet, microwaved dogs
Honestly, that’s not helping me much as a reference point.
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Imagine wet dog smell but warmer
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Tripe. I can’t stand the smell while menudo is cooking but it’s so damn tasty!
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Vinegar is pretty universally hated a scent. Most foods wouldn’t be the same without it.
Gonna need a source on that universal hate.
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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.
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Personally I love the smell, but whenever I eat Natto everyone in the house is upset.
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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.
It’s one of life’s little injustices that coffee never tastes as good as it smells.
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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.
There were signs all over my hotel in Thailand prohibiting the consumption of durian on the premises.
