Your favourite cooking smell

[jennyb]

What are your favourite cooking smells? The obvious one that a lot of people say is bacon. One aroma I really like is the smell of toast in the morning. There are probably lots of other smells I like too but that was the first to come to mind. Apologies here to @creative - it was her post regarding loss of sense of smell which made me think of starting a new thread.

 

[StormChick85]

Bacon is a good one, but I know a better one Our family has a tradition of making a Hungarian coffee cake on Christmas, and the smell of that baking along with some coffee brewing is heaven. The smell of the tree and fire help as well.

~Stormy

 

[Morning Glory]

Our family has a tradition of making a Hungarian coffee cake

I can 'sort of' imagine! You should post up the recipe...

 

[Morning Glory]

Now personally, for me, nothing quite compares to the aroma of a good curry simmering away.

 

[Kake Lover]

cooked bacon
ground coffee is one of the few things that smell better than they taste
any cake whilst it's in the oven
freshly squeezed oranges
freshly baked bread

 

[buckytom]

Oh, I live and die by my nose. I think I'm part dog in that sense. I have a million aromas that I like.

Garlic and onions toasting in a litlle evoo.

A pork butt cooking over smoldering hickory and apple wood chips.

A hot cup of cappuccino with just that tiny sprinkle of cocoa on top.

A burger or steak on the grill, and fries, er - sorry, chips down in the fryer.

My wife's neck after a day at the beach (coconut oil, sweat, and the briny sea)

A good, Cuban cigar, or a pipe of aromatic tobacco.

Wait, there are supposed to be just food smells.

Woof!

 

[GadgetGuy]

Cooked bacon
A cake in the oven
Steak
Baked beans.

 

[Elawin]

Curry, or garlic and onions, or freshly baked bread - or all three

 

[Morning Glory]

Oh, I live and die by my nose. I think I'm part dog in that sense.

I'm a bit the same!

 

[Yorky]

Bacon first, dry roasting cumin and coriander second and the resultant curry third.

 

[Yorky]

However, if I lived in France sitting outside a boulangerie at 06:00 would be difficult to beat.

 

[Elawin]

Oh, I live and die by my nose. I think I'm part dog in that sense.....Woof!

Me too! In fact I have been told I am a first class bitch

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

dry roasting cumin and coriander second and the resultant curry third.

That will do quite nicely.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Cinnamon, nutmeg, garlic onions.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

You can't make me pick one, that's impossible. Anything being cooked in an oven comes top because it seems to be rich and smooth as it permiates the room.