I cooked with masala (curry & spices) last night..

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Moab

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:(Wow.

Well, dinner last night was indeed pretty great. An Indian guy I work with took me shopping to an Indian supermarket and I got lots of great curry based spice boxes and different peppers and such to cook with. Dinner came out wonderful and I enjoyed eating it.

But now it's over 24 hours later. I've had candles burning, the fan running, and the windows open. My place still smells like curry.

I have read about how places with curry cookers can smell forever, but that has always been people who cook and cook and cook 24/7 with curry. I just did it once. Will my place ever get rid of this curry smell or will I need to do some serious work to remove the smell?

Oy.

I used a total of 2.5 teaspoons of the stuff across two different dishes.
 
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Originally posted by: Moab
:(Wow.

Well, dinner last night was indeed pretty great. An Indian guy I work with took me shopping to an Indian supermarket and I got lots of great curry based spice boxes and different peppers and such to cook with. Dinner came out wonderful and I enjoyed eating it.

But now it's over 24 hours later. I've had candles burning, the fan running, and the windows open. My place still smells like curry.

I have read about how places with curry cookers can smell forever, but that has always been people who cook and cook and cook 24/7 with curry. I just did it once. Will my place ever get rid of this curry smell or will I need to do some serious work to remove the smell?

Oy.
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You will probably need serious work. The stuff can get right into your fabrics. Thus, vacuum, fabreeze, etc.
 
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Tiamat

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hah! That will take about a week to fade, plus you should vacuum fabrics, and apply febreeze etc. liberally.
 
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Moab

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Originally posted by: Cattlegod
give it about a week. that is what happened to my place when i did that ;)
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So did you have to do anything special or did it just fade?


I'll get some Frebreeze like Timat suggested and spray that this week. Anything else I should be doing? I read that vinegar can help so I have a couple bowls of that laying around the place.

Man, dinner last night was great but I am not too sure if it was work all of these smells. Next time I am going to need to find a way to cook it outside on the bbq.
 
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Eh, you put too much curry powder in. You're only suppose to sprinkle some in whatever food you're cooking to give it some curry flavor, not pour the entire pack of curry powder in.
 
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Moab

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Any of the daytime crew have any words on this? Even my work bag smells of curry, and that was sitting in a different room away from the kitchen. Now I sit here at work and can smell the curry coming off of the bag thats stashed under my desk.
 
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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Property value = -123423453245 dollars
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Unless the future owners are Indian.
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Highly doubtful. They usually stay on the reservations with the casinos raking in the dough I thought.
 
DivideBYZero

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Open a window, use the extractor or at least shut the door to the kitchen (if you can) when you cook. Also, try to not use 11ty billion tons of spices and then vapourize most of them into your house.
 
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either you bought ****** curry stuff or you used too much.
its going to take time to get rid of the smell.
 
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DivideBYZero

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Originally posted by: Whitecloak
either you bought ****** curry stuff or you used too much.
its going to take time to get rid of the smell.
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I'm betting on a combination of the two.
 
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Feneant2

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Don't put bowls of vinegar, boil it so the smell propagates some. Some people also boil vanilla to do the same thing, but you usually do that while cooking. A lot of people who fry fish will boil vinegar to stop it from smelling.
 
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Moab

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Okay let me say something more, I talked to someone who cooks with this stuff all the time, it's not the curry that is making the smell, its the masala mixes that I use. She said that the masala is what kills your place like I have now.
 
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Are you sure it isn't YOU who smells? I have several Indian friends/coworkers that I frequently eat with and I know that I smell for a day after I eat Indian food. That is even with a shower or two. The smell just oozes out of your pores.

It is good food and it is worth the smell. But if you leave for work and you still smell the food, then maybe it is your own skin that smells.
 
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Originally posted by: dullard
Are you sure it isn't YOU who smells? I have several Indian friends/coworkers that I frequently eat with and I know that I smell for a day after I eat Indian food. That is even with a shower or two. The smell just oozes out of your pores.

It is good food and it is worth the smell. But if you leave for work and you still smell the food, then maybe it is your own skin that smells.
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If [she] smelled, I have a feeling [she] would habituate to the smell.
 
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Originally posted by: Moab
Originally posted by: Cattlegod
give it about a week. that is what happened to my place when i did that ;)
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So did you have to do anything special or did it just fade?


I'll get some Frebreeze like Timat suggested and spray that this week. Anything else I should be doing? I read that vinegar can help so I have a couple bowls of that laying around the place.

Man, dinner last night was great but I am not too sure if it was work all of these smells. Next time I am going to need to find a way to cook it outside on the bbq.
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i didn't do anything special. just washed down the kitchen and let the place air out a couple days and it just went away.
 
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