Does anyone know.......? Vinegar smell

This might be of interest Maggie. Lots of links online as well.

www.kilmarnockarms.com/bram-stoker-kilmarnock-arms-hotel.html

We used to go to Whitby often when we lived in Hull. - happy memories.
Going back to boil in bag kippers, I once spilled some of the fluid on my jeans and the smell lasted after washing. Someone told me to make a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide and soak them in that - it worked!

Very atmospheric photos, Katek. I hadn't heard of other claims to the Dracula inspiration, so found that interesting. I'm sure I've seen a film that mentioned the story of the souls coming ashore on the tide. What a touching thought.

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Aah! Crossed wires! I really should waken up properly before I read posts! We do have a connection, however, via Dracula. Whitby says Bram Stoker found his inspiration for Dracula there, whilst out village says he found it here! He did stay here for quite some time and was often seen walking along the cliffs. Our cliff top castle - sadly now in ruins - was said to have inspired him along with the myths and legends of the area. One of those is that the souls of those who have died at sea that year come ashore on a particular tide.

Ha ha, neither, Kate', I'm talking about Whitby! I thought it was odd that they had to have subtitles for North Yorkshire - the accent's not that broad!

Are you from the Blue Toon then Maggie or the Broch?

I left the area over 40 years ago, Katek. But it's still home.

It's ok....I'm an incomer, I've only been here 35 years!!

Really, Katek? It's a good job we're not communicating by video link on here then!

It's the one featured on Trawlermen where they had to use subtitles to translate local dialect!

I always used to have to run past the fish quay at Whitby, where groups of women would sit gutting the fish. It stank to high heaven, yet the fish couldn't have been fresher.

Eleothan, I once realised on a bus that the awful smell of cat wee was coming from my umbrella.

Well I have not been put off by vinegar smells. I just opened my last pot of home made tomato chutney from 2011.
The damson chutney I made last week will take about three months to mature. I should have made a smaller quantity of that.

I am now thinking of doing a straight tomato chutney, and or an apricot chutney. Looking online there is not much you can't make chutney with.
I think I might be addicted to making preserves.

I have to take issue with the slow cooker containing all odours claim!

I've stopped using mine because the whole house used to smell of casserole for days after I'd actually made it...

She's just trying to get us to buy hers at three times the price

Has he been to a fish market??!? The smell is dreadful.

We keep being told by a local fishmonger that very fresh fish doesn't smell; that fish from the supermarket smells because it is old, unlike theirs.

However, I have never noticed a difference.

We live only 7 miles from Europe's biggest white fishing port so tend to buy very fresh fish. Maybe that's the problem....it's too fresh!! Will maybe try (or DH will) some of the fish in a bag and see what difference it makes.

Asda and Waitrose also do fish in an oven bag...

*Annabel17" Does using a slow cooker for making chutney allow enough of the liquid to evaporate? It took hours for mine to reduce.
I now want to make some more chutney just because I get that feeling good factor.

Off to make several portions of red lentil dal to go into the freezer instead. It's one of my stand by meals.

Alea I've also experienced that horrible realisation that the smell of curry I'd been turning my nose up at was actually coming from my raincoat!

I burn white sage incense sticks, bought from the internet, very cheap. Not only deals with smelly cooking e.g.kippers but also is said to "cleanse" the air i.e. bad vibes etc.

Sainsbury's do fish in an oven bag with the butter of your choice too.

As another lover of microwaved skippers, I I've found that bicarbonate of soda on a damp dish cloth works a treat for zapping fishy pongs.

Katek I burn a candle nearby when cooking fish, I was told it takes the smell as it burns , it seems to work.
I have no garage, no slow cooker and no fruit trees so will have to hope my neighbour makes too much chutney again this year or rely on the farmers market !

Annabel, that's a brilliant idea, thank you. I have a slow cooker, an outhouse and a power point, can't wait for the next batch now!