How Does Stainless Steel Remove Odors?
How Does Stainless Steel Remove Odors?Answer: One household tip for removing odors from fish, onions, or garlic from your hands is to rub your hands across the blade of a stainless steel knife. In fact, you can even buy stainless steel ‘soaps’, which are just hunks of stainless steel that are about the same shape and size as a bar of normal soap. Does stainless steel remove odors? If so, how does it work? There isn’t a lot of hard scientific data (that I have seen anyway) concerning stainless steel odor eaters. However, you can test this kitchen wisdom yourself, using your nose to take data. Better yet, get someone else to smell your fingers, since your own sniffer will have odor molecules inside it already from exposure to the food. My experience has been that the knife trick works, but only up to a point. If you have been working with onions, garlic, or fish long enough for their ‘perfume’ t
