Steve Pope wrote:
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> Arri London > wrote:
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> >Steve Pope wrote:
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> >> Arri London > wrote:
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> >> >He's right as far as *your* palate goes Clearly Jean and I don't have
> >> >that sort of palate. Fenugreek tastes/smells nothing like maple to me.
> >> >It could explain why fake maple tastes so wrong to us though...
>
> >> The datapoint is not whether it is wrong, but whether it
> >> is an unusually lingering odor, as noted by the OP, Lou,
> >> and myself.
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> >> You are free to ignore this, or any other, datapoint.
>
> >But it doesn't have that either. We cook with it all the time. Would
> >have noticed any lingering odour by now, don't you think?
>
> So you think that your not having noticed a lingering cooked
> fenugreek odor negates other peoples' experience?
>
> This is becomoing a pretyt silly thread...
>
> Steve

No *you* are saying that. The way we prepare the various spices for our
curries doesn't result in a lingering odour, with normal ventilation.
Can't say what other people's experiences are. Clearly they are
different than mine.