A strong fishy odor
I started cooking a lot over the last few years because I couldn’t afford the rise in restaurant prices towards the end of the pandemic.
I understand that inflation caused everything to increase in price, but that still doesn’t mean I should use up large portions of our income just to support my favorite food establishments.
On top of that, all of this cooking practice has improved my skills overall. I went several weeks without cooking while I was traveling for a school year in university, and I remember coming back and messing up basic dishes that I had previously cooked dozens of times before. Can you imagine making a poor batch of spaghetti after making it almost once a week beforehand? At least I’m far from those days now that I cook almost every single meal that I eat. While this inevitably leads to my home smelling amazing whenever I’m cooking something that tastes good, it also means that my home is going to smell gross when I cook something odiferous like fish. The fish smell will permeate our air conditioning as the oils ventilate through our HVAC duct via our home’s indoor air. While it helps to use charcoal coated filters in the air conditioning to knock down on odors, these are not perfect by any means when it comes to removing odors from one’s indoor air. That’s why I’m saving money to purchase a new vent hood for the kitchen. That way the cooking oils that get into our home’s indoor air can go outside through the vent hood instead of through our Heating and A/C system.