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How to Get Rid of Food Odors
Friday, October 11, 2024
odor control
How to Get Rid of Food Odors
When a dish is first cooked, it might smell great, but as time goes on, these scents become undesirable—especially when combined with those of other foods. So, when your facility starts to smell like curry, sauerkraut, fish, and fryer oil, you want a solution as fast as possible.
At State Chemical, we manufacture and distribute chemical solutions for a spectrum of problems, including odors. When your facility smells bad, it deters customers and causes you discomfort as well as frustration. You just want the quickest and most effective solution, but what will that be for you?
To help you eliminate your facility’s food odors, we’re going to explain common problem areas, different treatment methods, and how this will look for your facility in the long run. After reading, you’ll know how to get rid of food odors in your facility—and how to keep your facility smelling fresh thereafter.
Common Places for Food Odors
The first step to eliminating food odors is understanding where they come from and where they linger.
It’s a given that food odors come from cooked food.
This might be in an apartment complex, where the coagulation of different units’ food scents settles in the hallway, creating a monstrous combination of tuna casserole, onions, burnt popcorn, and broccoli.
It might be in a school, where Taco Tuesday escapes the cafeteria and quickly morphs into taco-pizza-chicken-nugget-soup by Friday.
This could happen in a restaurant, where old frying oil and fallen food scraps become a rotting scent that lingers thick in your nostrils.
There are possibilities for food odors anywhere there is food, but odors may linger in certain areas more than others.
In some cases, food odors will simply remain in the open air. This will be especially common in kitchens and other places where food is frequently present. In these cases, you’ll need to look at whole-room, open-air solutions.
However, there are also times when food odors intertwine themselves with a specific space. For example, a hotel room with a kitchen may see food odors trapped in its furniture over time. The same can happen to any fabrics, linens, carpets, or other textiles that come into frequent (or severe) contact with food odors.
Additionally, items such as waste disposal bins that frequently see food will take on a certain odor. Just think about a grocery store throwing out leftover rotisserie chickens, spoiled eggs, and rotted vegetables. These dumpsters will take on an earthy, putrid smell that really won’t be ideal for workers or passersby.
Overall, food odors can permeate through any space or object. Now that you know what category your odor falls under, you’re ready to learn how to best treat it.
How to Eliminate Food Odors
Depending on the location of your food odor, you have several different options to eliminate it.
For open-air odors—or odors more persistent throughout your facility—use an ambient scent diffuser. This is a consistent, facility-wide solution where an automated system eliminates odors and adds a pleasant fragrance throughout the space. When you have general odors throughout the area, this is a perfect hands-off solution for odors that will keep running even if you don’t think about it.
Meanwhile, if your problem area is a more specific object or area, try spot treatment. For food odors burrowed deep into fabrics and textiles, this will mean spraying them once a week with a fabric refresher. For trash can odors and odors specific to a piece of equipment, this will mean an odor-eliminating spray. In many cases, specific problem areas will have solutions specifically crafted for them. Look into odor elimination intended for your issue and you’ll yield successful results.
Overall, the most comprehensive solution to severe food odors is to combine ambient scenting with spot treatment. This way, you’ll eliminate malodors at the source while also proactively fragrancing the space as a whole. This ensures consistency as well as the effective elimination of powerful odors.
What works best for you will depend on your individual space, but generally, these will be your main options for controlling food odors.
Food Odor Elimination in the Long Term
In the long run, food odor elimination will involve changing your approach as needed.
To treat very severe odors, you might start out with spot treatment and ambient scenting, but as time goes on and the odors fade, you might switch to only ambient scenting—or to only occasional spot treatment. It all depends on the development of your situation.
Approach odor control as your facility needs it, and if the odors change over time, change your approach to account for that.
When you eliminate food odors, you make it more likely that facility visitors will view you as more welcoming and more professional. If you walk into a restaurant and your first thought is, “Wow, it smells like crusty, old food,” you probably won’t eat there again—you might walk out after arriving.
Meanwhile, if you walk into a restaurant that smells clean or like fresh food, you’ll probably think it seems nice. If you have a good experience beyond that, you’ll probably come back, but your initial impression will influence a lot of the decision.
Scent is a powerful trigger of memory and significantly influences people’s opinions of a place. When you choose to deodorize and fragrance your facility, you make an investment in your brand image.
Learn About State Chemical Air Care Agreements
Food odors don’t always start out so bad, but when they coagulate and linger, they become particularly unappetizing. Ambient scenting, spot treatment, and a combination of the two are great ways to deal with food odors in your facility—what method you choose all depends on the surrounding situation.
To learn more about odor elimination possibilities, read about what an air care agreement with State Chemical looks like.
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