How to remove the smell of rotten fish. Effective ways to get rid of the smell of fish on clothes. Where does the smell of fish in the refrigerator come from and how to prevent it

Remember, after cooking the fish, you need to immediately take measures to prevent the smell from spreading throughout the kitchen and even more so the apartment. To do this, take salt, vinegar and lemon. Of course, you can only use one of these products. But to remove the smell for sure, we recommend using all at once.

• Heat the salt in a pan and leave it on the stove until it cools.
• Peel the skin from the lemon and also heat it over a fire, you can even just hold the zest over the burner.
• Take a small saucepan and pour water into it, add vinegar and lemon juice (two tablespoons per two liters). Boil it, and then open the windows in the kitchen to ventilate it well.

1. Always seal food containers and bags tightly.
2. Ventilate rooms.
3. If you feel that the fish has begun to rot, immediately throw it away.
4. After cooking the fish, wash the dishes thoroughly, and do not just rinse with water.
5. Do not put knives, plates, cutting boards in the dishwasher, in this case the smell will pass to other dishes. It is better to wash them with warm running water using a sponge with detergent.
6. Always use different cutting boards for fish and other foods. So the smells will not mix.
7. If you cook fish soup in the kitchen or fry fish, you need to close the door to prevent the “aroma” from penetrating into other rooms.
8. Always wear gloves when handling fish or other strong-smelling foods, as skin absorbs odors a lot, especially when wet.
9. Before frying fish, marinate it, for example, in vinegar. Or add parsley, celery to it, they perfectly neutralize odors.

Natural neutralizers and flavors

If the smell of fish filled the refrigerator, then in order for the methods listed below to work, you need to remove everything from it and spread the peel, tea, etc., on the shelves. If the stink is in an apartment or car, then it will be enough just to put a few cups of coffee beans or cans of soda and cinnamon in the rooms or in the cabin.

• Peel of an orange or tangerine.
• A little tea in gauze.
• Activated carbon.
• Jars of coffee. You probably noticed that they are often put in stores, pastry shops. This is no coincidence, because coffee beans are one of the best natural neutralizers. Just 10 grams of this remedy is enough.
• Soda with cinnamon. Mix them and pour into a jar, closing the lid and making holes at the top.

Where does the smell of fish in the refrigerator come from and how to prevent it?

An unpleasant odor appears when the storage conditions of products are violated, it eats into the walls of the equipment and persists. for a long time. Therefore, you need to keep slaves and other foods with too strong or specific flavors in tightly closed containers.

If you open the refrigerator and smell the product, you should immediately transfer it to an airtight container. Also, you can not keep meat or fish dishes open - they are best eaten in 1-2 days. Remember that the smell of rotten fish is much more difficult to remove.

What to do if the fish is rotten?

To eliminate the smell of rotten fish, first throw away the spoiled product, and not in the bin, but immediately in the garbage chute (previously wrapped tightly in several bags). Then unplug the refrigerator and wash it completely. Mix baking soda with water (2 tablespoons per liter) and rinse again. The first can be replaced with vinegar or ammonia. Another option is to rinse all the shelves with water mixed with mustard powder(in the same proportion). When the refrigerator is completely washed, you can turn it on and put a few tablets of activated charcoal inside.

Important! Be sure to check the food that was lying next to the fish, they could take over the smell. If this happens, then it is also better to throw them away.

Special preparations for eliminating odor in the refrigerator

Special products will help to eliminate the smell, for example, "absorbers" - balls, inside of which there is a gel. They not only neutralize the stench, but also leave a pleasant aroma, for example, citrus. Their price is from 80 to 300 rubles.

You can also purchase a "smart" absorber with an indicator that is placed inside the refrigerator and controls the amount of aromas emitted. When it's time to clean up, the device will notify you. It also works as an odor neutralizer.

Of the more expensive options - battery-powered ionizers, which are put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to clean the air. They cost about 1000 rubles.

How to remove fish smell from dishes?

The most important thing is to wash the plates, pan, cutting board and knives on time, i.e. immediately after cooking. But the funds listed will help after 1-2 hours.

1. Wash all dishes with detergent, then wipe with dry cloths (it is better not to use a towel, as it will absorb the smell).
2. Frying pan - fill it with salt and heat for several minutes on the burner.
3. Plates, forks, knives - use dry mustard. Dilute a small amount of powder in water and wash all dishes with this solution.
4. Frying pan, cutting board - wipe with a slice of lemon, rinse again with water.
5. Any dishes - wipe with vinegar.

What to do if your hands smell?

After dinner, you can wipe your palms with a slice of lemon or table vinegar. But do not do this if there are scratches on your hands. Coffee is also suitable for treating the skin, olive oil, beer and even toothpaste.

How to remove odor from clothes?

During cooking, an unpleasant aroma is absorbed not only into dishes, but also into clothes, for example, an apron, bathrobe, etc. The following tips will help:

• Dissolve laundry soap in water (about 10 grams per liter) and soak all things in this solution for at least half an hour.
• Another option is to use water with 9% vinegar (5 liters and 150 ml, respectively).
• You can wash all your clothes and even curtains in the washing machine, adding ordinary soda instead of powder. After that, it is advisable to rinse everything with air conditioner and dry it in the air.

Smell in the apartment

1. The most important thing is to immediately open all the windows and ventilate the apartment.
2. Then do a wet cleaning of the house, be sure to wash the floor with a solution of water with a few drops essential oil lemon or vinegar.
3. You can also roast coffee beans in a pan, this will perfectly eliminate the unpleasant aroma.
4. Another option is to boil a cut lemon in a saucepan for several minutes with the addition of spices, cloves, cinnamon.

Fishy smell in the car

Try leaving a glass of vinegar, alcohol, or lemon water in your car overnight. Then ventilate the car and wipe all its parts with a disinfectant. If this does not help, professional cleaning using dry fog is possible. It neutralizes unpleasant odors by penetrating deep layers of upholstery. In some cases, it will be necessary to replace individual elements in the car (for example, carpet).

Regularly check the operation of the air conditioner and clean it!

How dry fog works

How to remove the smell of mud?

Another common problem is that river fish unpleasantly gives mud. To remove such a "flavor":

1. Soak the fish in milk or water for 1.5-2 hours.
2. If you are cooking fish soup, then put the onion, celery and carrots in the broth. They can be removed before serving.

At raw fish there is a specific smell. It is felt even when the dish is already cooked. There is not a single type of marine or river fish, which would not emit a rather unpleasant aroma for some people.

Fish is a healthy and nutritious product necessary for our rational diet. It is not advisable to refuse to use it only because it emits a sharp aroma at the cooking stage.

What to do with the kitchen if you really want to taste fried fish or fragrant fish soup?

Eliminate fish "spirit" in the kitchen

The smell will always be there. It can be pronounced or practically absent, but wonderful metamorphoses will occur with our sense of smell and we will always be presented with a real stink.

What problems do we face when we are going to cook fish:

• A specific smell is transmitted to all the utensils required for cooking - a cutting board, knives, pans, bowls.
• The neighborhood of fish in the refrigerator with other products is impossible - the smell is instantly transferred to them and to all the internal walls of the refrigerator.
• It is very difficult to wash kitchen towels that someone from the household used after contact with a crucian or perch.
• Not everyone likes the too “fragrant” taste of fish soup. How to remove a pronounced taste in the ear? For some, this is also a big problem.

It is impossible to hide the fact of frying fish from the neighbors. Having even the most powerful hood, you will not be able to avoid the spread of "flavors" to the entire entrance. Everything will be ventilated there over time, but losses are inevitable in the apartment itself - wallpaper, carpets, curtains, clothes will be saturated.

It is necessary to take measures immediately after cooking to reduce the spread of the fishy smell throughout the apartment. Salt, vinegar, lemon, lemon or orange peel will help us.

Salt is a faithful assistant, it remarkably delays a variety of odors:

1. Heat it up in a frying pan and leave it on the stove until it cools down.
2. Half the work is done, then citrus zest is applied, which must also be heated in a small frying pan or simply held over the burner. But not everyone will have zest on hand.
3. How to remove fish smell? Pour water into a small saucepan, add vinegar or lemon juice. We boil the prepared water, and then we thoroughly ventilate the kitchen.

How to remove the smell of fish from a cutting board, dishes

For cutting fish, you need to have a separate board, but so that it is not wooden. A poor-quality board will absorb juices that will be almost impossible to remove.

The great "experts" in home economics advise that you need to buy certain types of dishes in which you will marinate seafood and then cook. The advice is good, it will save other products from an unpleasant odor.

All the same salt and vinegar will help eliminate the smell of fish from dishes. Your kitchen should have paper towels. With the help of them, we carefully wipe the pan in which the dish was prepared, and then wash it. We put the washed, dried frying pan on gas, pour salt into it and warm it up - the trouble disappears.

Dry mustard is great for removing odors. If there is no powder, one that is already sold as a seasoning will do. We dissolve it with warm water. We process all dishes with a mustard solution, as well as a refrigerator if necessary. This is one of better ways eliminate the smell of fish.

Dishes, no matter how well washed, it is always advisable to wipe the fish with vinegar or lemon juice after the fish.

Experienced housewives have many ways in their arsenal to remove the smell of herring, fresh or dried fish, seafood, they are:

• Wipe the surface with potatoes or onions cut in half.
• A little sunflower oil is dripped onto a clean rag and the problem is removed. Afterwards, the dishes must be washed.
• They take ordinary beer and process all the utensils with it. The fact is that beer has a much sharper spirit, and it interrupts fish. The method is good because the beer is easily washed off without problems.

How to wash clothes, aprons, towels with the smell of fish?

Things should be soaked for a couple of hours in warm water, to which is added table vinegar. It is taken approximately at the rate of 4-5 liters of water - two tablespoons. Then rinse clothes and towels thoroughly and launder as you normally would.

How to improve the taste of fish soup that you cook from river fish?

So that she doesn't give pungent odor mud, add a whole head (medium size) of onions and whole carrots to the pan. The roots and greens of parsley, celery are wonderful products, without which good ear will not work. They will solve the problem and improve the taste of the dish.

The specific smell of fish, as you can see, can be overcome. Whenever you plan fish on your family menu, be sure to stock up on enough vinegar, lemons, or beer to quickly eliminate fish odors after cooking.

It is not possible to get rid of the smell of fish on clothes and household items the first time. Normal washing does not solve the problem. There are alternative ways to clean things with the help of improvised or professional products.

fish, thanks palatability and nutritional properties, occupies a worthy place on everyday, festive or diet table. The product has a drawback - a difficult to remove odor that can penetrate and eat into any surface, textiles.

Professional dry cleaning will easily remove the rotten fishy smell from textiles, carpets, car covers, clothes. The method is not cheap, it takes time, not everyone has the opportunity to wait for a thing for several days. Easy way, gives 100% results without much effort, and for some it is perfect. The rest can, with the participation of available food products and household products to remove the unpleasant smell of fish, its fatty stains on their own. Of the minuses: the process will take several hours (less dry cleaning), but it requires some effort on the part of the hostess - manual soaking, rinsing.

In an emergency, dishwashing liquid, citric acid, laundry soap, ascorbic acid, lemon, bleach, washing powder, stain remover, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, table vinegar will help.

Features of removal from different types of tissue

An unpleasant fishy smell exudes things that have not even been in close contact with fish. From the aromas of frying, clothes, kitchen utensils, which should be washed as soon as possible, will smell. If, when cutting a smoked fish, fat gets on a tablecloth or napkins, an oily trace will remain on them, if tightened with washing, the stain will eat into the fabric and rot. If the smell has permeated outer clothing, special care will be required when cleaning it.

Fabrics can be conditionally divided into groups:

• household (napkins, tablecloths, towels, car covers);
• colored items that require delicate washing;
• things in neutral tones;
• outerwear to be washed;
• outerwear that cannot be washed.

The easiest way to remove the fishy smell is from the first group of fabrics. Such textiles are washed, wrung out, bleached, without worrying that things will lose their color and shape. Do not use bleaches or powders with a bleaching effect on colored fabrics, but the use of a stain pencil is allowed. It will easily remove fish oil stains from clothes, while maintaining its color. Things of neutral tones, outerwear that can be washed are soaked and washed when removing odors. It is worth choosing the method of influence carefully. Outerwear that cannot be washed should be subjected to stain-removal procedures locally in those places where it has come into contact with the fish. In the absence of contact, you can try to air things, wrap them in paper, sprinkle with salt, leaving it on the fabric for several days.

The smell of fish, if it is not strongly ingrained into the fabric, some mask with perfume. It is not recommended to do this, the aroma of perfume will disappear over time and remain tangible only for the owner, and those around you will feel a deep fish plume.

Overview of popular tools

Of the products mentioned that can remove the smell of fish from clothes, most can be found in every kitchen and in the refrigerator.

Means	Mode of application
Lemon	Grease stains are rubbed with fruit juice, the juice is added to the rinse aid compartment in the automatic machine, mixed with the powder.
Lemon acid	in solution citric acid damaged items are rinsed by hand, poured into the rinse aid compartment in the washing machine.
Vinegar	Clothes are rinsed in vinegar, soaked. Solution concentration: 2 tbsp. spoons of substance per 4 liters. water. Vinegar will neutralize any, even rotten fishy smell.
Dishwashing liquid with lemon flavor	It is recommended to use a product with lemon flavor. Dilute the liquid in hot water, lubricate the stain and soak for 2-3 hours. You can not wash the thing in a machine! Only by hand!
Laundry soap	The darker the soap, the more alkali it contains, the more effectively it removes fish ombre from clothes. Soap the stain, cook thick soap solution, having cut soap shavings into the water, soak the clothes for 2 hours. Washing and rinsing are allowed in the washing machine, with the addition of citric acid as a flavor.
Vitamin C	The acid perfectly conditions clothes. Add the solution to the rinse aid compartment in the washing machine.
Bleach	Bleach, whiteness, chlorine-containing products are not suitable for delicate and colored fabrics, but they perfectly eliminate odors. The fabric will smell like chlorine, ascorbic or citric acid is used as a conditioner.
washing powder	Lemon-scented powder, in company with a deodorant rinse, citric or ascorbic acid instead, will help to cope with the fish smell.
Ammonia	Alcohol, water and vinegar in equal proportions are effective tool against any stench. Soak clothes in the solution for 2 hours, then wash and rinse thoroughly.
Hydrogen peroxide	Peroxide does an excellent job of disinfecting woven fabrics. You can use it by applying it to the scent stain in concentrated form or in an aqueous soak solution. Not recommended for use on colored fabrics.

Washing rules

To get rid of the unpleasant smell of fish, clothes must be washed, after removing greasy stains with a special pencil (such as “Udalix”). Perhaps this will be enough.

Grease stains before washing sprinkle liberally potato starch or salt to degrease the fabric, remove excess fat, treat with stain removers. It is necessary to wash at the maximum temperature allowed for a particular fabric, using a powder with a lemon smell. Please read the care instructions before washing! Double rinse is an additional plus to machine wash in the fight for the freshness of clothes. If the goal was not achieved the first time, it is worth repeating the procedure.

Before cutting the fish, you need to prepare a knife and a cutting board. Fish have the ability to leave a smell on any surface, but plastic dishes are especially prone to absorb any flavors. Therefore, a glass cutting board is recommended for cutting fish. Pre-wipe the board and hands with a slice of lemon or a solution of water diluted with vinegar. After cutting, put the waste from the fish into a plastic bag, tie it tightly and throw it in the trash. The board and knife should be washed immediately. The smell of fish from the knife can be easily removed by wiping the blade with a cotton swab with sunflower oil. If the fish emits a too strong smell, before cooking, you need to lower it for a couple of hours in a solution of water with the addition of vinegar, bay leaf and pepper. The smell will disappear.
During frying, the smell of fish will be less pronounced if in a preheated pan with vegetable oil add a few drops lemon juice. If in the water in which it is prepared fish broth, add a little milk - the smell will disappear, and the fish will acquire a more "subtle" taste after cooking. After use canned fish it is necessary to immediately throw away the cans, after rinsing them with running water, and then with vinegar. It is very convenient to cook fish in the oven using foil, parchment or a special “baking sleeve”. The smell from cooking will be weak, and the dishes will be clean.
It is best to use enamel or glassware when working with fish. So that there is no “fish spirit” left on plates and cutlery after washing, you must first remove the remaining fat with paper napkins or dry mustard. Next, soak the dishes in cold water with salt for a few minutes and then rinse with warm water. If you used a meat grinder to cook fish or food processor, after rinsing with water, you need to grind a slice of lemon in aggregates. Lemon will not only get rid of the smell, but also fill your kitchen with aroma. After washing dishes from under the fish, you can pour baking soda into the sink and extinguish it with vinegar. After an hour, rinse the sink with hot water.
The unpleasant smell of fish from the hands can be easily eliminated by dipping your hands for several minutes in a container of water and a weak solution of vinegar. Then wash your hands in warm water with soap. No less effective and wipe the "fragrant" hands with half a fresh onion, sunflower oil, lemon or lime.
You can get rid of the smell of fish by boiling some water with the addition of cloves or cinnamon. It will also freshen the air at the end of the work. ground coffee(1-2 teaspoons) charred in a dry frying pan. Sugar will also help to get rid of the unpleasant smell of fish. Melt granulated sugar in a spoon, and it will absorb all the fishy smell.

The specific smell of fish is difficult to confuse with some other. An unpleasant odor extends not only to hands and dishes, it can soak clothes and even the kitchen. Let's find out together how to eliminate the smell of fish from any surface.

Solutions

Before you figure out how to get rid of the smell in the dishes, in the refrigerator and on your hands, here are some tips to help reduce the spread of unpleasant odors.

• Cover the fish. Try not to store fish open in the refrigerator. Always wrap it in foil or put it in an airtight container.

• Separate board for cutting fish. A lot of fish waste accumulates on the cutting board, so I recommend getting a separate board that will only be used for cutting fish delicacies. It is advisable to highlight not only a separate board, but also a special cutting knife.

• Wash items that have come into contact with fish immediately.. It is necessary to wash all kitchen utensils that come into contact with fish immediately, without delay.
• Dry hands in gloves. Hands smell like fish, mainly because moist skin easily absorbs pungent odors. I recommend wearing kitchen gloves (example in the photo below).

• Pickling. So that the fish does not exude an unpleasant aroma when frying, it must first be marinated (in vinegar or in beer).

Getting rid of unpleasant odors from dishes and hands: 6 methods

How to remove odor from dishes and hands:

Image	Instruction
	Method 1. Lemon + salt From the skin of the hands: rub lemon slices between fingers, rinse with water. From dishes: Sprinkle the surface with salt, and then wipe the desired area with a slice of half a lemon.
	Method 2. Mustard Powder If the fish has been lying in the pan for a long time, cover its bottom with mustard powder and leave for 30 minutes. Rinse the container thoroughly afterwards.
	Method 3. Beer You can remove the smell of fish from your hands by rinsing them dark beer. Finally, be sure to wash your hands with soap. This method is especially effective in removing the aroma of smoked and dried fish.
	Method 4. Detergent Using a lemon-scented dish detergent can easily eliminate unpleasant odors. The main thing is to use hot water.
	Method 5. Raw vegetables Cut a few slices raw potatoes(carrots or onions). Rub the slices on stinking surfaces. Then rinse first in cold water, then in hot water with detergent.
	Method 6. Salt water Boil water and add 3 tbsp. l. salt. Wash dishes and hands with hot water. This method works great with cleaning cutting boards.

We eliminate the smell in the room: 5 methods

Get rid of the scent fried fish indoors is pretty easy. So, in the table there are several ways to refresh the smell in the apartment:

Image	Description
	Method 1. Vinegar Boil water in a kettle. Add a couple of tablespoons of 9% vinegar to it. Wait for the aroma released to spread throughout the kitchen.
	Method 2. Clove + lemon Cut 2 lemons in half. Insert dry cloves into the cuts. Place lemons in boiling water and let simmer for 5-10 minutes.
	Method 3 Roasted Coffee Beans The aroma of roasted coffee beans perfectly refreshes the air. Roast a handful of beans in a pan and the smell of fish will disappear.
	Method 4. Orange Peel Burn dried orange peels, then ventilate the room. Be careful, crusts are flammable and burn very quickly.
	Method 5. Wet cleaning You can arrange a wet cleaning using any delicious-smelling detergent.