Do you smell your food before you eat it?

In all the years I've smelled my food and drinks before consuming
them, I've found but a few people who do the same. The rest think I'm nuts.

Surely there are other sniffers out there, come forward!

When you smell your food as often and as long as I have, you
begin to know in advance what your mouth should expect. Laugh
if you will, but I often allow hubby to fix his fountain drink first, then
I smell his soda to see if I would like the same. You can tell (or smell)
if it is laden with syrup, too much carbonation, etc. Why pour an
entire soda if you aren't going to enjoy it?

(I hear someone laughing out there!)

Come on, folks. I know you're out there. Food sniffers, come on out!

Ok, I have been know to sniff drinks! ~ just to make sure that I'm getting the one that I ordered & not my sons. He always gets a Coke & I get a D.P....

My husband should learn to smell his drinks! He only drinks diet drinks and absolutely hates cherry. You should see the look of disgust that comes over him when he gets a Dr Pepper, Cherry Coke or even Rootbeer or anything else unexpected. LOL

I think I smell food if someone else makes it but not my own cooking. Paranoia??

No, but only because if I'm home, I've cooked it, and I know it's good..or, I'm out, and it's just not something I'd do in a crowded place.

But I smell it constantly when I'm cooking. ; )

I have been known to smell first bite later. I'm one of these that if introduced to a new food If doesn't smell good its not good. Thats how I've been for 50 years, why stop now?

I always smell my food! If it smells bad, it for sure isn't going in my mouth. When I'm cooking, I smell the food, too - especially when checking for garlic.

wuvie,

you made my evening, ilaughed so much, i smell my food and drink but i never got over nothing touching on the plate lol

liz

You *bet* I do! ;)
~Elaine~

I smell things before I cook them to see if they're fresh...such as meat, fish, milk. I check potatoes to see if they're earthy. Once food is cooked, I simply enjoy the aroma but don't stick my nose to it. :) I might sniff wine, but not my soft drink. Actually, I don't even drink the latter anymore.

I've always smelled my food. But I never really noticed it, until my oldest son came along. It was pointed out to me that he smelled everything before he would put it in his mouth, even at a young age. He is now 28, and he still does it, so does his 9 year old daughter. I guess we pass on these little idiosyncrasies to our offspring. Or, maybe its just habit, they see us do it...they do it.

Dee

Just the milk and half and half. Nothing ruins a pot of coffee like soured cream!

Not intentionally, though it doesn't sound like a bad idea. Maybe I'd eat more slowly than.

DH likes to smell books.

LOL Kelli, better books than socks.

Now that you mention it, I think he smells socks sometimes, too. At least he doesn't put his dirty socks on the kitchen counter any more. I put a stop to that real quick. I swear, the man has no concept of germs.

My mother was an excellent cook but she would get into ruts some times and try recipes that would come in the Tuesday's paper to try and spice things up. It was on these occasions that our whole family would sit down to eat, say prayer and all turn to look at my older brother. He would smell the food, (always did) and if he took a bite we all felt it was safe. The real funny part is that even my mother would wait until Tim gave the go ahead after a good whiff.

He was an excellent cook and bakery himself when he grew up and everyone loved all the food that he cooked at any outing that he had attended. He claimed his skills in the kitchen were guided by the smells.


Edited because I can't spell any better then I can talk......

This message was edited Aug 26, 2006 7:06 AM

Hi my name is Nicole and I'm a sniffer!!!

:)

I don't smell my meals, but I do smell produce. If a peach doesn't smell like a peach, then it isn't going to taste like much either!

I smell in-store and/or farmer's market tomatoes, and melons. Usually buy none from the store!

I ALWAYS ask to smell the fish, frequently don't buy it either.

Yep, I smell produce too. No rotten bag of potatoes for me!

That made me laugh so hard about the sniff sniff sniff the food or others only for me smell the meat to make sure fresh before I cook this and not always look good color meat can be smell bad sometime so sometime kids trick on me change my drink when I see them acting not right so I has to smell it before I drink. LOL.... So first of all I love the most have to have sniff aaaaahhhhh on perfumes everyday and candles all the time.