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Put off cauliflower for life after tonight

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Changedusernameforthis2 · 09/06/2025 21:16

Lovely friend popped over earlier as I've been feeling low. She brought dinner but cooked it at my house. She made roasted cauliflower like the bang bang cauliflower you get at restaurants. Delicious. But oh my god. The smell in my house is now 🤢 I'm actually feeling nauseous just from the lingering smell uggghhh

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AmyDuPlantier · 17/06/2025 20:06

Bought cauliflower rice once from Tesco, and by the time I got home I had to leave all the car doors open to air it. I walked it in the front door and straight out the back to the bin.

Cant believe we were ever convinced that it was a thing!

unsync · 17/06/2025 20:02

The resulting farts should disguise the cooking smells.

If you have a dog, NEVER let them have cauliflower, even if you have to prise it from their jaws.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 17/06/2025 19:34

Love cauliflower and kale!

Haven't noticed any of the smells people are mentioning.

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Changedusernameforthis2 · 15/06/2025 20:34

onceuponatimeinneverland · 15/06/2025 01:03

Omg, can't believe this thread has appeared in active

I thought I'd try roasted cauliflower tonight and it's absolutely rank. The whole house stinks, the air fryer seems tainted. I love cauli as well. Like OP it made me feel sick.

How long did it take to go? Mine lasted until 3pm the next day?

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EllyRoff · 15/06/2025 14:58

ThatLemonFox · 14/06/2025 18:20

Jesus christ if this is bothering you enough to write on Mumsnet about it then I guess you have a pretty cushy life. Get a grip love!

Jesus Christ if this post is bothering you so much why reply to it?

EllyRoff · 15/06/2025 14:56

retiredpickme · 09/06/2025 21:55

I remember reading an article by a pathologist who said corpses smell like cauliflower cheese (it might have been the stomach contents or something) and it put me off massively 🤢

Tastes like pork as well apparently. Before they rot. Presumably rotting corpses would taste like rotting pork

ThatLemonFox · 15/06/2025 14:33

Sorry my post was horrible, I can only apologise😳

onceuponatimeinneverland · 15/06/2025 01:03

Omg, can't believe this thread has appeared in active

I thought I'd try roasted cauliflower tonight and it's absolutely rank. The whole house stinks, the air fryer seems tainted. I love cauli as well. Like OP it made me feel sick.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 15/06/2025 00:00

I had a fig tree but it only got to year 3 before it sadly perished .
I read the growing instructions that you cannot eat any fruit year 1.
Year 2 it was rubbish but I did wonder why it went straight to fruit with no flowers .
I didn't know about the wasps
Good job I never got to eat any bloody fruit Shock

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Changedusernameforthis2 · 14/06/2025 23:50

Nope definitely cauliflower..it's faded now but, never again!

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broney · 14/06/2025 23:11

I think that's cabbage you are talking about, boiled to a pulp, and taking me right back to school dinners. Never had any smell or antisocial aftereffects from cauliflower.

scalt · 14/06/2025 20:56

AnneLovesGilbert · 09/06/2025 21:46

God I love cauliflower. Never noticed any particular smell and I have an inconveniently sensitive nose. We eat it every week.

I saw something very upsetting about figs a while back - previously one of my favourite foods in the world - and can never eat them again. I’m still in mourning.

It wasn’t the stage musical of Amelie, was it, which a song about figs?

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Changedusernameforthis2 · 14/06/2025 20:53

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Jesslovesengineering · 14/06/2025 20:43

Changedusernameforthis2 · 09/06/2025 21:20

This is exactly where I am at. What am I going to do about the smell??? Candles and open windows are not cutting it. I'm already nervous about waking up to it tomorrow

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Don't worry, the cauliflower-induced farts should drown it out 😂

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Changedusernameforthis2 · 14/06/2025 20:34

ThatLemonFox · 14/06/2025 18:20

Jesus christ if this is bothering you enough to write on Mumsnet about it then I guess you have a pretty cushy life. Get a grip love!

Oh fuck off you fun sponge

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chillycat · 14/06/2025 20:02

I had a very similar self-inflicted experience. Threw a few sprouts into a slow cooker stew. What an idiot. A putrid smell of fields/ death/ farts got into every corner, soft furnishing... and I'm sure through the walls into the neighbours. Eughhhhh....

Cherrysoup · 14/06/2025 19:50

There’s a massive field of kale which the farmer has left for two years where I walk the dogs. On a wet warm day the smell is extraordinary, in a not good way.

raspberrieswithchocolate · 14/06/2025 19:21

Hope you get rid of the smell soon @Changedusernameforthis2
I'm relieved you're only posting about the smell of cauliflower, however!
I wasn't sure whether to read your post after seeing the title of your thread - I was worried you were going to post about finding something awful in your cauliflower😬

PollyPansy · 14/06/2025 19:20

You need a Price's chef/kitchen candle.

KeineBedeutung · 14/06/2025 18:53

I used to love cauliflower and broccoli. Only rarely cook them now, for hubby.
Give me a pea or carrot any day. 😬

Challenger2A7 · 14/06/2025 18:46

The worst veggie for me is celeriac, it smells like puke.

Zippp · 14/06/2025 18:23

God I love kale. Possibly my favourite vegetable. Bit of salt, bit of olive oil, cook it in the oven until it’s crispy…

I have pizza cooking in the oven as I write this and I would swap it for kale in a heartbeat.

ThatLemonFox · 14/06/2025 18:20

Jesus christ if this is bothering you enough to write on Mumsnet about it then I guess you have a pretty cushy life. Get a grip love!

PickAChew · 11/06/2025 00:09

I love cauliflower but it is far from at its best at the moment. I only buy it if it passes a sniff test in store.