What’s Your Favorite Food or Cooking Smells?

[Attjack]

Durian Fruit.

[Attjack]

SheilaAnn My sister likes to put M80s in them on Independence Day.

[treesmacker]

NOOOOooooooooOOO!

[treesmacker]

Might just be as bad as Brussel Sprouts!

[barelfly]

Another favorite of mine - is a German dish, or a few with similar aromas.

Rouladens, which is basically a thinly sliced beef rolled with bacon, onion, mustard, pepper and cooked in the oven to make gravy. Sauerbraten has a similar aroma, but I guess it’s the aroma paired with the memories of making these dishes with my grandmother. So pair the two and….it’s one of my favorites!

[bbqLuv]

Fresh Baked Bread.

[shify]

This is going to be oddly specific but the smell of the street carts in NYC that sell roasted nuts is probably my favorite food smell of all times. Too bad its one of those situations where the smell =/= taste and the nuts are mediocre at best.

[barelfly]

This is good, as it’ reminds me of walking into a baseball stadium and the mix of food, like roasted peanuts, popcorn and such.

[Rob whatever]

I grew up in a small town in southern Alberta, Canada, where my dad was the town baker. The best memory aroma for me was waking up at 4:30am to walk to the bakery, which was 4 blocks away from our home. I would cut through the park across the street from our house when the smell of the first batch of bread my dad baked would hit me. If I was really lucky, the northern lights would be dancing at the same time.

Rob

[Murdy]

Garlic and onion simmering in grease waiting to get added to something.

Honorable mentions: sauerkraut, coffee

[Panhead John]

Sauerkraut? 😳

[barelfly]

Sauerkraut and onions in a frying pan together are some goodness!

[Murdy]

Panhead John -- your post on this thread was cabbage, bacon, and onion. Figured you'd be completely behind sauerkraut.

[SheilaAnn]

Cinnamon

[GolfGeezer]

Couldn't resist: I should have, but I couldn't...

Apocalypse Now - I love the smell of Napalm in the morning - YouTube

[ecowper]

It smells like ..... Victory!

[acorgihouse]

Bacon, yes, but the turkey carcass simmering for stock/soup the day after Thanksgiving is warm and lovely. Coffee brewing in the morning reminds me of my dad, when I was old enough to taste it he would bring me his cup when first brewed, to have a sip. Any fruitwood smoke coming out of my smoker, esp early on a Saturday morning. I'm a sucker for the memories.

[SheilaAnn]

Fresh basil

[ecowper]

Popcorn being cooked in oil at a theater. Old school popcorn makers, not the modern contraptions with stale popcorn and that "shelf stable" cooking oil stuff.

[Panhead John]

Oh yeah, I forgot all about fresh popcorn smells. 👍

[ecowper]

There was nothing better when I was a kid than the smell of fresh popcorn at the theater

[Greygoose]

BREAD,,,,,,,
nothin’ like it,,,,l

[tbob4]

My smoker fills the neighborhood (1 acre parcels) with a hint of what is cooking for a pretty good distance. The wind determines who gets to smell it. My Blackstone has my next-door neighbor identifying what I am cooking and asking if I will have any “extras”.

[Smoked Transistors]

Hot Chocolate brewing, fresh banna bread, newly opened box of Sees candies, burgers frying with onions on a cast iron griddle, fresh cheesy garlic toast,orange-cinnamon rolls fresh out of the oven, cooked sausage with bell peppers

[Panhead John]

Great choices!

[SheilaAnn]

While I am not from here….. you had me at See’s!

[Michael_in_TX]

I'll echo some of the others on there bacon, fresh-baked break, garlic, coffee......I also love the smell of pecan wood burning.

And my cook tonight reminded me of a smell I don't get that often as it is expensive: lamb on the grill. So, so good.