Quite strange, ^entirely^ hypothetical cleaning question ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

So, if some moron I had taken flour and water and boiled them together, and then put them in a sealed tupperware.

And if, then, I left them out.

Until I noticed, two weeks later, that the container was making a noise, and the contents were bubbly ...

How on earth would I get the smell out of the tupperware? It smells like a dirty person or something. I mean, obviously it would smell like that, if I had been so stupid as to do this thing ...

put gloves on, gauntlets if you have them

and a haz mat suit and mask

and pick up said box with a long pair of tongs

and place carefully into pit

and bury deeply

then run !

Bin it. I hold out no hope of removing the yeasty smell.
Should you be so attached to tupperware that you can't bear to do that, a good soak in biological washing powder, followed by a nice Milton soak might work.

You would only get the smell out of the tupperware by applying a small amount of Semtex.

Which rather defeats the object. Or would, if this were not a hypothetical question.

This is what bins were made for ...

Tupperware is specially designed to absorb all smells (especially wierd, faintly mental ones). You will now use that tupperware to give your DC their packed lunches in every day for 10 years - or is that just my mum?

You could try making a thick paste of bicarbonate of soda and smearing it on the tupperware, then leaving for a few days. It can't be any worse than what you have already subjected that poor container to!

were you making glue?

I think all old tupperware smells bad

Can I just ask-: were you trying to make play dough? And if so why was it making a noise?

I would try something like bicarbonate of soda or fairy power spray

It's a very big tupperware, too big for lunches.

Ooooh, bicarb might do it.

It's been washed by the cleaner. It's been washed by the dishwasher. I've left it with fairy liquid in it.

Ok, if someone were stupid enough to do this, they'd do it because a) their children needed to make a Roman shield, complete with dome in the middle b) she was ill, and recovering from an operation, and delusional. So, ok, I'm tired of trying to pretend it's not me, I'm still pretty tired.

I made up papier mache mix. Then realised I wasn't really up for doing it, so I sent the DCs off with the mix to a random teenager's house. She did the papier mache (I started a thread about it, though, to be fair, so I pulled my weight ). Then I had a big box of papier mache glue left, and I kept thinking I'd want to do some papier mache with them, but really, them being still alive at the end of the day is a bit of an achievement at the moment.

And then it got gross.

Um, what were you they trying to make???

I would bin it. Will you really ever want to put food in it again?

Or, put it on ebay.

I was making glue, yes, for papier mache.

It was making a noise because it was venting air, because the glue had, as part of its carbonation or whatever the hell it was doing, was making more gas than there was before, iyswim.

Could have been worse, it could have been talking.

But the stuff that was in it was just flour and water.

The smell is now pretty faint. People other than me, people who aren't fricking princesses about smells (Perfumes and aftershaves get to me. And I got quite freaky about jet exhaust smells today, which sounds like a normal thing to be bugged by, only nobody else with us seemed to mind ) probably couldn't smell it.

Yeah, I will probably end up binning it I guess, but I'd like to give it more of a go.

Weirdly, the stuff was still the same colour it started out, just, you know, bubbly. And noisy ...

I think it was fermenting
you probably could have got ratarsed on it

I have a lot of quite nice alcohol in the house, I think if I wanted to get ratarsed (which I don't really) I would probably start with the actual alcohol.

It looked like it might be related to kefir or whatever it's called, that carbonated yogurt [nauseated].

I mean, you know, if it existed.

this is the kind of thing dp never lets me live down
I would tell him what you have done but he will be convinced it was actually me and I am trying to cover my tracks by blaming it on you

Have you tried rubbing it with a fresh lemon, then leaving overnight, and washing out?

I have never tried this, but my MIL swears its the answer to all odour removal!

I'll admit as much to him - but would he believe me?

Lemon is a good idea, I will try that.

It's such a faint but distinctive odour, I keep smelling it whenever I think about it.

Lemon or you could try filling it with white vinegar and leaving it overnight.

Vinegar might do it, absolutely.