Tea Light

I think anyone who cooks a lot gets annoyed with the smells it creates in the rest of the house sometimes. Although the smell of a freshly baked apple pie on a Sunday morning might be a welcome scent, the one of fried fish in your living room on a Thursday evening probably is not. If your house has a particularly good ventilation system this might not even be a problem for you. For the rest of us, there is the Tea Light!

I learned this from my friend’s Japanese mother. It takes care of strong cooking smells and leaves a very pleasant quite neutral scent of toasted tea, which goes away on its own quite quickly.

So just take one of those essential oil burning lamps and some old green tea (although if it’s too old and has completely lost its aroma it won’t work quite as well) and light a candle below it.
It takes a moment to start up but once it does it works rather quickly, so I tend to place it in the living room for a few minutes and then move it to the kitchen until the unwelcome smells have been chased out of the room.