We say absolutely, yes. After all, most good things come at a price. And if you have to go around with stinky onion fingers for a day or two after cooking last night’s glorious dinner, then so be it. But there’s got to be a better solution than just submitting to smelling like French onion soup or onion rings all week. And we’re certain soap and water won’t do the trick. We’ve all tried that.
How to get onion smell off your hands
- Forget the soap. Just stop. It isn’t working, you’re just drying out your hands. Then you’ll have dry, flaky onion hands. It almost sounds like a tasty menu item—but it’s not.
- Try the spoon method. Rub your stinky hands with a stainless steel spoon or fork under cold, running water for about 10 seconds, and watch that smell disappear. The sulfur from the onions (which gives them their distinctive smell) will bind to the metal and leave your hands odor-free. This sounds ridiculous, but we promise it works. This technique will work with any stainless steel—but we don’t recommend using knives.
How to make your kitchen smell good
- Bake something delicious. Then eat it!
- Simmer some DIY potpourri on the stove. We suggest cinnamon sticks or cloves, or both.
- Brew coffee. Then drink it!
- Use Febreze AIR to eliminate lingering odors and give your kitchen a burst of freshness.
- Burn incense or scented candles.
- Grind up citrus peels in your garbage disposal.
- Sprinkle some baking soda into your odorous trash can to soak up that garbage smell.
- We could go on and on with smell-good suggestions, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Miscellaneous onion news
We know this sounds like an Onion headline, but you can actually use onions to absorb burnt or musty smells from your home. As counterintuitive as this seems, try cutting an onion in half and leaving it in a musty shoe closet or your stinky basem*nt overnight. By the time the onion smell fades, the other smells will have vanished, too. Behold, the great smell swap!
It’s a universal truth that the mouthwatering scent of simmering onions beckons us all to the kitchen. We enjoy them in all forms: fried and dunked in condiments, atop burgers and sandwiches, blended into soups, pickled and creamed. Cooked and raw. Onions make the world go ’round.
But as much as they are delicious, their charm quickly wears off as they transform our homes, breath and body odor into stinky specters of themselves. Hey, it’s just the price of admission.
And now you don’t have to live with that burden. Be free to enjoy onions to the fullest with the knowledge that you can flip that kill switch when you’re ready to be done with them.
