I cooked latkes

[Anonymous]

That's why I don't deep fry. The smell lingers for days, so gross.

[Anonymous]

One year, a friend and I cooked them in schmaltz, chicken fat. The smell lasted at least a week. But they were the best latkes, EVER!

[Anonymous]

When I was in college, I interviewed for a babysitting job for a Jewish family. My coat smelled like fried food for weeks afterward--now I know what they were cooking!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One year, a friend and I cooked them in schmaltz, chicken fat. The smell lasted at least a week. But they were the best latkes, EVER!

There was an article somewhere (NYT?) about how schmaltz is the new olive oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One year, a friend and I cooked them in schmaltz, chicken fat. The smell lasted at least a week. But they were the best latkes, EVER!

Ugh, it lingers that long just with vegetable oil! I love latkes but it's so gross to step into the house 5 days later and still get a whiff of latke. It's the major reason we only do them once a year (because they're not actually that much work if you have a food processor). By the time the smell is out, no one wants to even think about them for months!