Reduce oily cooking smell?

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I'm just wondering how I can go about reducing the oily/greasy cooking smell when cooking. It obviously varies according to what I'm cooking but the girlfriend keeps banging on about the cooking smell inflitrating the rest of the flat so I guess I should make some effort to reduce it. I dont overuse oil, but I do use veg oil or olive oil depending on what exactly I'm cooking. Is it worth trying something else that may have less of a smell?

It's an extreme example but I think the steak last night may have been the last straw, she's actually threatened to not allow me cook steak ever again! (as if )

Oh, I always do the obvious -- cook with the kitchen door shut and the extractor fan on full wack and the window open!

 

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Have you changed the filter in your extractor hood recently? I've lost count of the amount of times I've cooked in a domestic kitchen and the cooker hood was almost dripping with grease.

For me, that's the main source of any lingering smells in a kitchen. People just don't seem to realise they need changing on a regular basis.

I think that has been cleaned recently, but maybe not so recently Maybe I'll take a proper look at it and see if it needs actually replacing.

I don't often use olive oil for cooking and certainly don't on steak, but from the sounds of it it would be worth trying something else.

I've always been of the opinion that I'm cooking, therefore it will smell of cooking! Maybe I should try these things at least..