leave out a plate of charcoal briquettes- make sure they're the ones WITHOUT lighter fluid.

If the smell is in your sink drain, sprinkle some baking soda in, let it sit for a few minutes, then pour in some lemon juice. After it fizzes up and does its effervescent magic, rinse thoroughly.

How do you get the smell out of your hands?

For garlic and onion hands, wash your hands right after chopping and include a stainless steel utensil. Just soap up and rub your hands on a soapy fork or butter knife... works every time.

I have also seen special stainless steel "soap" which is used for just this purpose... reduces the risk of sticking yourself with a fork!

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We simmer a small amount of vinegar on the stove for lingering odors and then allow it to remain on the stovetop overnight with the heat turned off. For your hands, I just dry rub them on the faucet-works every time and saves you from having to buy a special "soap".

I've always used a teaspoon to remove hand odors and that eliminates the hazards of the fork or knife! @Rosebud -- I never thought about using the faucet -- GREAT IDEA!

Put an exhaust fan in your kitchen. I think they are overlooked too often. If you cannot vent them directly to the outside, get a recirculating unit. It will help out dramatically when it comes to controlling excessive steam, odors and splattering from your stove.

How about smokey burnt sugar smell from sticky bun goo that overflowed into the bottom of the oven? For such a small spill, it made an incredible amount of smoke. Windows have been open in my tiny apt, but it still smelled funky this morning....

OMG! I am so intrigued by this awesome fork/spoon trick! How does it work?

I use a lemon scented hand soap from Softsoap designed to remove kitchen odors. Works fairly well.

Cover a cookie sheet with a piece of foil, sprinkle some cinnamon on it, and bake it in the oven for a few hours at 250 to 300 degrees..

Use the juice from a half slice of lemon (lemon-scented soaps aren't the same). It works every time for me, especially with garlic. It'll also get rid of the oils from hot peppers.

Coffee grounds work almost every time, takes smells right out of sinks, dishes, etc.... However you are left with the faint smell of coffee, but nothing a little cleaner won't get rid of.

my friends mom puts orange peels in the garbage disposal, that could help.

After washing hands with a regular soap twice, wash them again with toothpaste also twice. Rubbing hands with a half of lemon works for me as well. Either way, rub or wash fingertips throughly. The nice thing about using lemon is it leaves the skin soft after rinse.

We fried up a bad batch of fish accidentally, and the smell lingered for WEEKS. Opening all the windows only helped while they were open. The garbage was taken out, dishwasher run multiple times, hard surfaces wiped down [including walls in kitchen] and soft surfaces sprayed with Febreeze. Still, the smell would return. A tray of vinegar didn't even help. In desparation, I boiled water with a huge handful of cloves and jasmine tea on the stove, and poof, gone! Magic.

Ugh- fish lingers at my house also, sometimes for up to a week, even with the windows open. Will try the vinegar.

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i think the most worthwhile thing to do is to bake up your own big batch up cookies, brownies, cinnamon rolls, coffee cake, fruit crisp, or something else that is yummy and fragrant, plus a big batch of coffee, and sit back and enjoy the new tastes and smells :)