Hydropinke
Assistant Cook
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- Aug 16, 2007
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I am baffled by an incident I had this evening while cooking garlic chicken. Maybe there is some crazy rule about garlic and or cast iron that I don't know so if thats the case I am a moron.
So here go's. I am prepping fresh garlic for my chicken while the cast iron skillet is heating up. I drizzle some olive oil in the pan and toss in the garlic after putting it through the press. I wanted the 2 ingredients to mix up together before I added the chicken, sounded like a good idea to me. I set the lid on top the pan to keep the heat in(its on low heat) while I cut up some chicken pieces. Right before I put them in I add some salt and pepper and noticed this funky chemically smell. Hmmm. I though maybe my nose is all f'd up. So I ask the boyfriend to come and smell this, its funny. Thank god he smells its too and I am not crazy. It was very odd. So I pull the pan off and we figure that maybe we didn't clean the pan good enough last time and i will get some new garlic and start over. Geesh, So i peel all new garlic grab a completely diff cast iron skillet, completely clean. Grab the bottle of evoo, and give a good wiff to make sure its not rancid. Nope smells fine.So I heat up the pan, drizzle in some new oil, and press the garlic and BAM! Horrible freaking smell again. So bad it makes my eyes water. It was so **** foul, even stronger this time. GRRRRRRRRRRR wtf? I am totally confused! I grabbed a stainless steel pan, some butter, and some garlic salt and finsihed dinner. But I was pissed and cant get that obnoxious smell out of my nose still.
Anyone ever had a similar reaction?
So here go's. I am prepping fresh garlic for my chicken while the cast iron skillet is heating up. I drizzle some olive oil in the pan and toss in the garlic after putting it through the press. I wanted the 2 ingredients to mix up together before I added the chicken, sounded like a good idea to me. I set the lid on top the pan to keep the heat in(its on low heat) while I cut up some chicken pieces. Right before I put them in I add some salt and pepper and noticed this funky chemically smell. Hmmm. I though maybe my nose is all f'd up. So I ask the boyfriend to come and smell this, its funny. Thank god he smells its too and I am not crazy. It was very odd. So I pull the pan off and we figure that maybe we didn't clean the pan good enough last time and i will get some new garlic and start over. Geesh, So i peel all new garlic grab a completely diff cast iron skillet, completely clean. Grab the bottle of evoo, and give a good wiff to make sure its not rancid. Nope smells fine.So I heat up the pan, drizzle in some new oil, and press the garlic and BAM! Horrible freaking smell again. So bad it makes my eyes water. It was so **** foul, even stronger this time. GRRRRRRRRRRR wtf? I am totally confused! I grabbed a stainless steel pan, some butter, and some garlic salt and finsihed dinner. But I was pissed and cant get that obnoxious smell out of my nose still.
Anyone ever had a similar reaction?