But I've started cooking more "whole foods" recently - you know, to work with the whole IR issue, and I've been using new flavorings to make the meals more exciting.
I made salmon the other night and seasoned it with fresh garlic. The salmon was SO good, but how on earth do I get the garlic smell off my hands?
It's been 48 hours and I can still smell it - no amount of hand washing has seemed to help.
Am I missing something basic here? Please help, it's starting to gross me out! Lol.
I did a google search for you and came up with the remedy of rubbing your hands on stainless steel while running under warm water several times. Here is a blurb about that, and a link for you:
I,ve noticed that experienced chefs often cook with garlic and onions. I love the taste of both, BUT how can you remove the smell from your hands after chopping?
Even with repeated washing, it seems the smell lingers several days, which does not deter me from using them.[HA HA]
The pungency of garlic and onions that makes them so irreplaceable in cooking is not so welcome afterwards, when the odor clings to your hands-often even after you've scrubbed them repeatedly with soap.
Luckily, there are two easy ways to minimize any lingering smell.
The first is simply to avoid touching the ingredients as you prepare them. Wear rubber gloves to slice onions, and, since most of your contact with garlic comes while peeling it, use a "garlic skinner" to remove the outer skin. Rather than mincing garlic with a paring knife, you can use a garlic mincer, so you'll hardly need to touch the cloves at all.
If you find your hands smelling of garlic or onion after cooking with them, RUB your hands on a piece of stainless steel while running under warm water.
Kitchenware stores often sell square, or oval-shaped blocks of stainless steel for this purpose, BUT, the bowl of a ladel or large spoon works equally well.
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Rub it on stainless steel! That's amazing and I never would have thought of it. Too bad for me my sink is porcelain and my cooking utensils are plactic - don't think I have much stainless steel around here.
But I tried the salt thing and another remedy I found - rubbing your hands in lemons. One of them worked, because I'm back to smelling like lotion. I'm using gloves next time! Lol.
I cant stand the way garlic makes my fingers smell and I *love* garlic. The stainless steel trick works every time for me. I just rub my hands over my faucet at the sink and ta da.. no more stinkies.
this is what I do to prevent from the smell getting on my hands after I cook with garlic and onions.. right after slicing them and I mean right after it, wash your hands with either dish soap or some kind of hand soap. And if you have to handle them in your hands again to put them in a pot or something wash your hands after that as well. In my experince with that it has kept the smell off of my hands
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Remove garlic smell? 
