Cooking fish. I would love to eat more fish, but the house reeks every time I cook it.

This works for us: Honey Mustard Cod (or Halibut)

I bake this in the counter-top toaster oven. Works perfectly baked for 10 minutes.

Another one we do is pat the fillets dry, use an offset spatula to thinly spread mayo or Nayonnaise, top with bread crumbs with spices, drizzle with a TBL of butter. Bake 20 minutes.

Same thing but spread with pesto, top with bread crumbs mixed with grated cheese.

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This drives me crazy...stinky fish

I buy it from my local fish monger and it stinks. I buy it from my supermarket and it is great. How come???
What my supermarket has told me is that their turnover is so good, the fish does not sit around for long. I believe it. Try and find a store that sells in season, wild fish....never farmed....and has a good turnover.

 
When you buy the salmon, does it have a smell or is it just after cooking? It should have no smell

right from the market.

 
Try rainbow trout, flounder, sole, etc. They're very mild. I have some great trout recipes if you're

interested. Red snapper is another mild fish.
I also have some great salmon recipes, should you decide to try salmon again. (I buy organic salmon, which comes from an island off Ireland - it's the best I've ever had).

 
I have the same problem in my place, there is no ventilation in the kitchen,

so after cooking fish I dump the trash that night, Febreeze the curtain hanging in the alcove off the stove, dump the trash, do the dishes, bleach the sink and put a dot of bleach in the dishwasher. Then, I still smell it in the morning... Normally I keep a very tidy kitchen, I just feel after cooking fish I really have to do extra plus plus cleaning to keep my place fresh.

Right now it smells like onions!

No matter what I do, everything I cook ends up smelling up the closet, and I cannot figure out why but use linen water in there to spray my clothes and open all the windows in my pad after cooking.

The joys of apartment living here at The Roost!

 
I think one of the biggest problems is that the fish isn't really fresh.

We do a lot of fishing. Fresh fish has no odor. Bring it home and cook it and the kitchen doesn't smell. We, unfortunately, have no way of knowing how fresh the supermarket fish is.

 
I totally agree. I'm lucky I have a great source for fish - no odor before or after cooking (of

course, it's not as good as your source!

 
Make friends with your fishmonger. The one I buy from will now give me a wink if the fish

is not fresh that day, or tell me outright if no one else is around. Freshness is critical. I am now getting over my aversion to fish and we are both enjoying the result.

I found that with this box of quick frozen while very fresh cod that I bought direct from the processor in Newfoundland, I actually enjoy opening the box because all I can smell is the ocean (specifically the North Atlantic Ocean on a fine day). Everything I've done with this cod has been good.

 
H, can you put a removable window fan to vent OUT while you're cooking?

Perhaps it's just an airflow issue...maybe it has no where to go, so it just hangs around...sort of like my MIL. Most "over the stove" vents are useless, from what I've read.

 
Oh! I should have had a V8! I will go get a fan from the dimestore and try this! I open the

window, both top and bottom, in the dining nook and the bay windows in the other room when I pan grill but the kitchen just fills with smoke and it just hangs. There is a cute art deco ceiling softit design that holds smoke in, so the rare times I do this I get out my jelly roll pan and fan the ceiling to get the room clear and pray no one calls SFFD!!! But a fan probably would prevent all of this from happening in the first place. Thank you!!! (now why didn't I think of that?)

 
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