stinky mackerel kitchen - HELP!

[BitOfFun]

I am not normally to be seen around these parts, slattern that I am, but I have had a lunch of mackerel and scrambled egg, and my kitchen now REEKS. I have been out to buy a lemon to heat up on the George Foreman, which is where I heated said mackerel...will this work? I have opened the window (PITA, as have just had the heating on, and it will be going straight out again ). I suspect just squirting some glade isn't going to cut it...can you lovely domestic goddesses help me, please?

If you have some vanilla extract, put a few drops on your grill pan (not sure if it would work if you put it on the GF, but can't see why not) and turn grill on low for a little while. Hopefully the smell of the warm vanilla will mask the mackerel. Another tip is to leave out a dish containing vinegar, but I've never found that too successful.

However, mackerel does hang around, you might just have to put up with it for a bit, or leave the window open!

Thanks for that whinegums, I will rummage in the dusty baking cupboard then

Still stinks...

Lemon juice should so the trick.

Rub the lemon on the grillpan and anything else that's had the fishy oil on it.

i highly recommend this for the future:

chefscandle

Thankyou expat, I will google it Good luck with the baby btw, must be getting nearer...

Am having a go with lemon juice now Lyra, thanks!

the tealights are even cheaper - £1.99 for six.

39 weeks and counting!

Oh dear BitOfFun, sorry about that. Hope the niff clears soon!