I love cooking with onions. Onions with my steak. Onions with my fish. Onions with my baked chicken. If onions have some sort of health benefit, I’m surely reaping a ton of it.
But as any avid onion cooker knows, when you throw those ends in the trash, they can stink up the entire kitchen - even when your trash can has a lid on it. It’s almost like an oniony smelling film covers the walls or something.
Unfortunately if you’re an apartment dweller, you can’t always just jump up and take your onion ends to the dumpster or the trash room.
That’s why I decided to try the Glad Force Flex Tall Kitchen Bags. They have a built in odor neutralizer. So I figured that would be the ultimate cure for those occasional trash bag stinks.
The copy on the box says “fresh, clean scent.” But that’s not true. It does have a scent. Although I wouldn’t call it fresh and clean. It reminds of an attempt at fresh. Pseudo-fresh. (But it’s going in the trash can, right?)
Over the course of the day I put in: pancakes with syrup, a half eaten pizza, apple skin and core, grapefrut skin, microwave popcorn bag, and yes… about a quarter of a medium sized white onion.
I just opened the trash can lid and took a whiff. Hideous.
Then I closed the lid, and smelled around the trash can. I could still smell the trash.
Not only that, the trash odor mixed with the ‘fresh, clean scent’ of the bag. So it created an entirely new odor in the kitchen. And it ain’t a fresh, clean scent.
My synopsis? Not a keeper.
Now excuse me while I go take out my trash.
