Cooking smells...

[daftwit]

I have an open planned kitchen and family room, which is lovely as a family we cook, eat entertain together. However, despite having a fan extractor, open windows (Velux too ) I still am left with a lingering cooking smell.

It is worse following cooking steaks, chicken or fish.

Can anyone help or advise on how to stop these smells, please ?

I use chef's tealights (in the supermarket aisle next to the matches usually). Theyre tea lights that help neutralise cooking smells but they only work on everyday cooking smells and not burnt/welded meat on baking tray kind of smells...I know that even burning half a packet doesnt get rid of that kind of smell easily .

Also a good through draft, so windows open on both sides of the house and of course washing up immediately after cooking also helps the smells to go quickly.

Ditto Chef's Candles - they also do a large one in a tin. I haven't tried them on every sell as yet, but I've been told they're effective on things like fish. A friend burns them when she cooks strong smelling food and it works really well.

I find that frying makes smells more prominent, but I think advising against frying might not be entirely practical!

a cooker extractor hood is better than a wall extractor fan.

A non-extracting recycling hood is an attractive kitchen ornament but serves no other purpose.

Extractors work better with the doors and windows shut as they creat a suction that prevents vapour drifting around the house. For best result switch on before you start cooking, and switch off ater you have put the dirty pans to wash and wiped grease mist off the cooker and surroundings. That way you can usually run them on low speed rather than a short, noisy burst on high that will be less effectice.

The electricity cost is very very low.