Hints from Heloise

Dear Readers: Do you ever need to get rid of unpleasant cooking smells like those from cooking cabbage, frying fish, sauteing onions, etc.? When cooking strong-smelling foods, your kitchen and home can fill with those unpleasant cooking and baking odors. Here are some easy and cheap odor-eliminating hints to help you “freshen” the air in your kitchen:

“When frying food, put a small bowl of white or apple-cider vinegar next to the stove to help prevent that nasty “fat is cooking” smell.

“If you have burned food, place several lemon, orange or grapefruit slices in a pan filled with water and bring to a boil.

“If something has dripped onto the bottom of the oven during baking, cover the burned gunk with table salt and clean up when the oven is cool.

“If the garbage disposal smells rotten, grind a bunch of citrus peels (lemon, lime, orange, etc.) inside. Then flush with lots of cold water. – Heloise