"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
> Last night I was quickly nuking some garbanzo beans to add to
> some cous cous. But the microwave emitted a scent of pumpkin-pie
> spice from something my wife had heated earlier in the day.
>
> Any other utensil or cooking device you can clean out to get rid
> of the old flavors, but I don't see how to do that with a microwave.
> Fish is especially bad.

Slice a lemon and put it in a boil of hot water and then nuke that in the
microwave. That will remove the scent and the lemony steam will also make
the microwave very easy to wipe out with a damp cloth. You can also just
save lemon skins in the freezer anduse them if you don't want to waste the
flesh/juice as a cleaning agent.