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Original poster

Neighbour cooking what smells like pure methane

40 replies

crashbangwhallop · 16/02/2018 17:39

I know there is nothing I can do but christ almighty!!
Surely if you live in a block of flats where you know the smell of your cooking travels it's just polite not to cook something that smells like a sewer has opened up inside everyone else's flats!
I would rather stick my nose directly up DP's arse and ask him to let rip!
I know IABU but it really is an offensive smell and my air wick just isn't tackling it!
Even Dcats are offended, and they usually like to follow DP into the toilet!

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dantdmistedious · 16/02/2018 17:48

I can't imagine what they would be cooking that would smell like methane. My first thought would be a sewer leak or gas from a sewer.

Cornettoninja · 16/02/2018 17:50

If it smells like a sewer it's probably a sewer....

Unless it's that stinky fruit (Duran??? Too lazy too google) but I can't imagine that would be strong enough to travel like that.

10thingsIhateAboutTheDailyMail · 16/02/2018 17:51

If it smells like a gas leak, it could be kimchi

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 16/02/2018 17:52

Are you sure it's not a gas leak??

Or a blocked drain?

I have cooked many, many things, but none have ever smelt like methane.

Though I am now thinking I bet there are drugs you "cook" that smell like methane.
Is it likely your neighbours have gone all "Breaking Bad"???

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crashbangwhallop · 16/02/2018 17:52

I don't think this is a sewer leak (as vile as it is). I did think that at first but we have a hole in our bathroom wall that has all the pipes from the loos and it doesn't smell in there. Nor can I see a leak but if you go into the communal hallway it smells rotten. It smells like a horrible/strong cabbagy smell. It's definitely someone on our floor and doesn't smell when I stand on our balcony so it's not outside.

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greathat · 16/02/2018 17:52

Methane doesn't smell...

BahHumbygge · 16/02/2018 17:52

Pure methane doesn't smell at all. Might be hydrogen sulphide (that eggy smell)?

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 16/02/2018 17:53

Ooh kim chi might be likely.

Or whats that tinned fish that the Swedes like thats basically rotten?

greathat · 16/02/2018 17:53

An extra gas is added to fuel gas to make it smell

BahHumbygge · 16/02/2018 17:53

X-post Grin

falsepriest · 16/02/2018 17:53

Methane is odourless.

greathat · 16/02/2018 17:53

Ha :)

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 16/02/2018 17:53

Alright science pedants....we all knew what she meant though, right? Grin

TheDailyMailIsADisgustingRag · 16/02/2018 17:54

Oh God @Lana, i was also thinking about Breaking Bad, but it wasn’t not the drugs smell I was thinking of as much as the body Envy (not envy).

greathat · 16/02/2018 17:54

Lol

FannyWisdom · 16/02/2018 17:54

Meth fumes don't smell like methane so they probably aren't drug king pins.

Unless they peeled 260 boiled eggs it's sewers.
Had a load of rain or a big thaw of snow?

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 16/02/2018 17:54

Strong cabbagy smell could just be,.....ummm...cabbage??

Cabbage soup is disgusting.

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crashbangwhallop · 16/02/2018 17:55

Lana - Most people on my level don't look like they cook drugs but if it's anyone I've got my money on the elderly lady opposite us. Not sure why but it would make a brilliant sequel to Breaking Bad if she took Bryan Cranston's place!

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Madupfam · 16/02/2018 17:57

My neighbour is always making soup and they literally smell like the Gruffalo's bumhole. I have to hold my breath and run up the stairs to my flat it's gross.

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 16/02/2018 17:57

crash be very very wary of the elderly lady...

An older woman got caught drugging her neighbours.

She kept giving them "lots of lovely casseroles"
After a while they realised these lovely stews made them dopey........she was putting weed in it! Grin

Plus it's always the ones you least expect.

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crashbangwhallop · 16/02/2018 17:57

Well you learn something new every day! Methane doesn't smell? (I was useless at science I apologise)
It's floating in the flat in waves and there's three neighbours in the corridor having a good whinge/"investigating".
One seems to think a gas leak, another is convinced someone is cooking up something dreadful. Third neighour and myself have no clue but we just want it to go away.

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phoebemac · 16/02/2018 17:57

Could there be something dead in the communal hallway under the floor boards, if there are floorboards?

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crashbangwhallop · 16/02/2018 17:58

madeupfam - Gruffalos Bumhole! I actually snorted at that Grin

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Fekko · 16/02/2018 17:59

Extra strong air freshener. That’s what you need. We had a neighbour who would cook offal early in the morning and thats the last thing you want to smell when you get up.

We also had some people two floors down who cooked god knows what. The woman above us collared me in the lift asking what I was cooking and I pointed out that it was 3 floors down from her. That was chinese food but not like any chinese food I’ve ever eaten.

Madupfam · 16/02/2018 18:00

@crashbangwhallop I swear this old lady is adding eye of newt wing of bat to her cooking the smell makes your eyes water!.