Every time the wife cooks fish, the husband frowns and gets annoyed. When he asked his mother-in-law, she was shocked to find out that it was because of him.

Turns out husband hates fish because of the wife

Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan (Hanoi) shared: “I really like eating fish and I can cook many delicious fish dishes. But my husband has a strange behavior, he can eat fish but after eating, he wrinkles his nose and feels uncomfortable just because… the smell of fish lingers in the kitchen, on the utensils in the kitchen, making him nauseous”.

He hates the smell of fish so he avoids eating fish, causing the wife to complain to her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law said that her son doesn’t hate fish, he just hates the fish smell sticking to him. Perhaps in their spacious hometown, the kitchen is not shared inside the house so the fishy smell doesn’t linger and disappears quickly. But in their childhood, whenever their mother cooked fish, her husband couldn’t even hug her all day.

Whenever the wife cooks fish, the husband wrinkles his nose and feels uncomfortable. Illustrative image.

Suddenly, she realized that their small rented house was narrow, so whenever she cooked fish, the smell would spread throughout the room, sticking to the sheets, curtains, clothes… Turns out she understood that, so she silently found ways to “resolve” her husband’s unpleasant fishy smell. And she has found some very effective ways to eliminate the unpleasant smell of fish:

Simplest ways to eliminate the fishy smell

The best way to prepare fish dishes is to rinse or soak them briefly with one of the following: rice water, salt, ginger wine, lime, vinegar… to remove the fishy smell before cooking. This way, the lingering fishy smell in the living space will be greatly reduced, and the food will retain its delicious taste.

Open the door, turn on the fan, clean up after cooking

First, every time you cook fish dishes, open the window and turn on the fan to quickly send the unpleasant fishy smell out of the kitchen and out of the house.

After cooking the fish, cover it tightly and clean up, wash the utensils used for cooking the fish and dispose of the trash as soon as possible to avoid the lingering fishy smell in the kitchen.

Use vinegar, wine, coffee grounds

Place a bowl of vinegar, wine, or coffee grounds in the corner of the kitchen or near the cooking area to effectively absorb the fishy smell. However, since vinegar, wine, or coffee grounds absorb slowly, it takes about 12-24 hours to completely eliminate the fishy smell. But since they are inexpensive, many housewives apply this method.

Or mix vinegar with water in a 1:1 ratio, soak the kitchen utensils in that solution, and use a clean cloth to remove the fishy smell. If you don’t like the smell of vinegar sticking to your kitchen utensils, rinse them again with dishwashing liquid.

The fishy smell can be eliminated with some simple tricks. Illustrative image.

Use ginger, tea, wine…

– Crush some ginger, soak the chopsticks, knives, pots, and pans in it, then rinse them and the fishy smell will be gone.

Or peel the ginger, then put it in a blender with a little water and blend it. Pour the ginger water mixture into the sink, then rinse with warm water to clean off the fishy smell.

In addition to white wine and ginger, use these liquids to remove the fishy smell and make your fish delicious, not smelly.

– Soak the kitchen utensils in tea water to remove the fishy smell, then rinse them again.

– Wine can be easily found and quickly eliminates the fishy smell. After finishing cooking the fish, add a little wine to enhance the flavor and make it more appetizing, reducing the fishy smell in the kitchen.

Or pour wine into a small bowl, soak a soft cloth in the wine and wipe the dishes, spoons, forks… the fishy smell will be completely eliminated.

– Or dilute wine in a basin, soak the kitchen utensils one by one in it for about 10 minutes, then rinse and dry them to remove the fishy smell.

– Or put a small piece of lemon, rub it vigorously on the dishes, then rinse with warm water to remove the fishy smell.

Those are the simple but most effective ways to eliminate the fishy smell after eating fish or any other strong-smelling dishes like crabs, clams, seafood… in the kitchen. There are also faster ways to clean up the kitchen, but they are slightly more expensive, as follows:

1. Steam the entire kitchen by boiling water, adding cinnamon, cardamom, fragrant herbs… to spread the aroma throughout the kitchen, the rooms… effectively eliminating the fishy smell.

2. Burn scented candles with pleasant scents that help eliminate odors and remove the unpleasant and fishy smell of fish. While cooking, light a scented candle in the kitchen. Some pleasant scents are lemon, lemongrass, mint… Doing this will bring a pleasant aroma to the dining room when having a meal.

3. Scent the kitchen with natural essential oils extracted from pure herbaceous plants to remove odors and effectively eliminate the fishy smell. To do this, use essential oils for steam lamps or diffusers.

1. Use essential oils mixed with floor cleaning water to clean kitchen utensils.

2. Mix essential oils with water in a 1:20 ratio, put it in a spray bottle, and spray it on the floor, curtains, refrigerator… to eliminate the fishy smell.

Because their rented house is cramped, Mrs. Lan bought a mini gas stove, so she takes it outside every time she cooks fish to make the fishy smell dissipate faster. As a result, her husband can eat fish without feeling uncomfortable or wrinkling his nose every time they have fish for a meal anymore.

According to Giadinh.net