Fish Sauce.
Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.
Yeah, came here to say this. East Asia has a whole collection of sauces based on fermented fish that taste amazing and have no offensive smell when cooked, but dear God, the smell of the stuff before it’s cooked is horrifying.
EDIT: I guess I should clarify, for anyone who hasn’t had it. It’s not so much that fish sauce itself tastes delicious alone, but it has a ton of umami flavor. Same sort of stuff you get from, say, powdered boletes mushrooms or MSG. It makes savory dishes just taste way better when you add it to them.
I’m guessing oyster sauce is another? I suspect it’s one of those magic ingredients that makes restaurant Pad Thai so good, but I’ve been hesitant to buy a bottle of my own.
Could be, but I haven’t tried that one myself.
We call it feet sauce in my house
The first person to think “hmm couple drops of this fish sauce in what I’m cookin might be good” had to be a little crazy. They were 100% right though lol.
Eggs smell so bad cooking but taste so good.
Broccoli too.
This post brought to you by the acorn squash I just sliced. See also roasted red peppers and cilantro. I don’t have the soap thing, but it do be like a stink bug sometimes.
do be like a stink bug sometimes
Seems to be certain times of the year here (US South). Sometimes we go months without a bunch that smells like them, and other times it’s every bunch for a month (and we almost always have a bunch in the fridge).
Lentils. May be a combo of being sick/smelling them all the time but I literally have to open all the windows when I boil them
Why does pesto smell like feet yet taste so delicious?
Probably the cheese (depending on the recipe). Parmesan has aroma compounds also found in other less desirable substances.
Yup. Butyric acid, it’s what makes parm and Hershey’s chocolate taste like they do, but its also what makes vomit smell like it does.
It smells like feet but tastes terrible
Really don’t care for cabbage. My mom always said it smells like pig slop, not that I’ve ever smelled pig slop. But yeah I never liked it and I think that had something to do with it lol.
I came to vote for cooked cabbage. Love it in lots of things, but hate the cabbage stink and that keeps me from making it more often.
Cannot confirm nor deny it smelling like pig slop. 😁
Personally I love some cabbage and sausage cooked up in a nice fresh chicken broth. But I definitely can see where the smell would be a turn off for a lot of people 🤣
Butterfish It is delicious but smells so bad that nobody in my family wants to cook it at their house so we would go to our grandparents’. The aroma lingers for more than a day if you don’t properly aerate the place. Febreeze, candles and other air fresheners do not work.
Bagoóng It is a Filipino condiment made of shrimp paste. There are other variations but still stinky.
Durian @DisOne@lemmy.zip is right about the heavenly durian milkshakes! My siblings and I would eat them outside — we weren’t allowed to bring them inside the house.
There were signs all over my hotel in Thailand prohibiting the consumption of durian on the premises.
LOL, yes! And in buses as well.
Any kind of fermented or pickled radish or daikon, smells like a fart, tastes like heaven.
Overly ripe papayas.
Always smell like rot. Taste like magic.
What do regular papayas taste like?
If they’re not as ripe, less magic.
Pate. The smell of chicken liver is awful.
Did you know KFC used to sell deep fried chicken liver in some areas? My mom was crazy for it 🫣
I can imagine that it melts in the mouth, but i feel sorry for anybody in the vicinity when they were cooking it!
Durian smells so bad, but durian milkshake is just heaven
This is exactly what I came here to say. Put a lid on that milkshake and I will scarf it down.
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I don’t eat meat anymore, but when I did the smell of bacon frying would literally make me sick. Came very close to hurling once just from frying bacon in a pan. I still liked the bacon itself though.
I think pig generally smells pretty bad while cooking.
Tripe. I can’t stand the smell while menudo is cooking but it’s so damn tasty!
i love andouillette but this is definitely something to cook leewards.
Any kind of greens.
Anything with black salt in it. Eggs don’t bother me, but the extra sulfurous scent in black salt is so off-putting to me. Tasty when used right, tho!
Used to be able to say natto, but it’s so tasty, cheap and nutritious that I’ve overcome my aversion and now it smells good to me.
Honorary mention to Swedish cod roe paste (Kalles). I, personally, didn’t mind the smell, but my roommate would call it “pussy paste”. She was more nose sensitive, it seemed, though, as she was the only roommate who very politely asked me to wait until she’d eaten before I prepared the natto.
