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Quoted message said:Hi, we live in a small flat with open plan kitchen joining with the living
room. Our son is very fond of 'fried' bacon which he likes fried up so
that
Quoted message said:it's very crispy.
Consequently he really stinks the flat up, and the smell lasts for ages !
Any suggestions please; as to how to either get rid of the smell once
there
Quoted message said:or prevent it being too bad when he fries the bacon in the first place.
I know an extractor fan leading to the outside would be the answer, but i
dont need the expense at the moment. We have a simple fan in the cooker
hood
Quoted message said:which simply draws the air through some charcoal and a filter and then
puts
Quoted message said:it back into the room, so i dont believe it is really of benefit.
grateful for any suggestions, thanks.
assuming you have changed the filter in the hood recently -
here are some suggestions, in the order of drasticity:
1. turn on the bathroom fan just before frying - it exhausts outside.
2. Microwave the bacon - being under the paper towel, grease doesn't float
around the room. (zap it about a minute a slice, btw). The hood can handle
that small amount.
3. buy precooked bacon - it just needs a warmup in the microwave/broiler
4. get a countertop deep fryer with a metal lid and leave the grease in it
on the countertop (like, what disease you fear can live in 400 F boiling
oil?) - bacon cooks a lot faster once the oil is hot, and you can cap it
except when its frying, keeping down the odor - (cook a piece of potato in
it ocasionally to remove odor.) The hood should handle the small amount of
odor ok.
5. Burn a candle in a candle chimney to get rid of odors - the air passing
by the open flame gets air de-odorized rather quickly (a couple hours,
usually - no need to have scented candles in a chimney. However - note that
any electronics devices with lasers - DVDs, games, etc. will get a clouded
laser rather quickly from unchimneyed candles)
6. buy a bottle of bacon crumbles and some bananas and introduce him to
peanut butter.
7. Tell him his x-box, nintendo, etc, will die in about a year from bacon
grease going into the box at the fan, clouding the laser and killing the
machine. Bacon or games?
8. Get a hibachi and have him cook his bacon on a stick, out on the deck or
on the roof.
9. Teach the boy the benefits of eating raw bacon
10. Take the boy to a petting zoo and get him to make friends with the
cutest little piglet you can find and get the pig's name. Then each time he
asks for bacon, say "Sure. Suppose this is little ____?". ( Ok, this may
warp him a little, but then warping him like this has a bright side - he
might go into politics and that warping will get him at the level of prime
minister or president.)
11. Don't fry bacon.
12. Don't buy bacon
13. Get rid of the kid
just about run out of ideas, there.
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