how to get rid of burnt cooking smell?

[summer rain]

Earlier on, I was boiling some black eyed beans (peas) to make curry with tonight and OH came back from his friend's to pick up my two eldest for their part-time school-my eldest had just been messing about for the past hour and hadn't got ready like he said he would and like I assumed he was in the bathroom for ages doing, so I was really flustered trying to get them ready and out in time. Meanwhile my beans boiled dry, got horribly burnt on the bottom of the pan and I had to throw them away. It was a steel pan so not as potentially lethal as non-stick but it smells horrible! I have as many windows open as is tolerable in this weather and the extractor fan on in the kitchen but it still smells awful.....

 

[shellie]

Could you open the back door and all the windows, spray a bit of air freshner and close the kitchen door so the rest of the house doesnt get really cold? It's a horrible smell when somethings burnt in the pan, hope it goes soon. xxx

 

[summer rain]

We live in a flat; sorry forgot to mention that but we do have a weird type of window in the kitchen where the top of it opens fully like a door-have that as wide open as possible lets see if it helps xx

 

[shellie]

It's one of the worst smells to get rid of too isnt it! I just did a quick search and apparently leaving a bowl of vinegar out, or boiling a pan with water and vinegar or water and lemon should do the trick.

I also heard a while ago that if you want the house to smell nice you should put some fabric conditioner in to water in a pan and boil that as the smell will fill the air - sounds like a strange one but I can imagine it to smell nice (make sure you wash the pan properly afterwards.) xxx

 

[KayBea]

was going to say boil up some lemon juice & water or fabric conditioner & water.

 

[summer rain]

thanks ladies Just came back to this thread now; I didn't do the boiling fabric conditioner trick as just read it but I did two loads of washing and strangely the fabric conditioner smell seemed to soak up the burnt smell and it just smelt neutral then; OH couldn't smell anything was burnt when he got back-so I knew the smell must've gone because he would be the first person to smell it xx

 

[shellie]

Thats good news, glad you got rid of the horrible smell. xxx