land of eternal stench!

[verbminx]

My house has smelled funny all day.

I checked the usual culprits first. Sometimes the sponge we use to wash dishes gets moldy and stinks up the room, but that wasn't it. Besides, the smell was all over the first floor of the house, not just in the kitchen. Didn't seem to be coming from the in-sink garbage disposal. Not in the garbage can, either. No, strangely, it seemed to be emanating from... the microwave?

(Sadly, it took me hours to figure this out.)

Apparently my mom forgot about some broccoli she cooked in the microwave yesterday afternoon. The plate looked OK, but smelled terrible. I should have taken it outside to dump it, but I couldn't stand to carry it across the house to the back door, so I put it in the garbage disposal.

Source of stench gone, but the smell wasn't going anywhere. Hunted down white vinegar after a misadventure involving apple cider vinegar (and inhaling it... oops). Now a network of fans and bowls of vinegar is taking care of the problem. I hope.

Comments

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Hubby has forgotten stuff like that all of the time as well.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

I was honestly so happy when I opened the microwave that it wasn't some kind of rotting meat. But rotting vegetables are pretty bad too.