Goal or Problem
When working with garlic, you are often left with garlic smelling fingers for sometime afterwards, even if you try to wash with soap and water.
Idea
To get the smell of garlic off your fingers, rub them on the tap of your kitchen sink, or any other stainless steel surface.
Your fingers will no longer smell of garlic, and for some reason neither does the stainless steel surface!
Comments
Some related interesting facts
I did bit of research on the Web. I was interested whether someone can explain what chemical reactions occur when garlic juices get in touch with stainless steel. There is an article How Does Stainless Steel Remove Odors? by a Ph.D. about this. But even she speculates about the chemical reactions.
My wife pointed out that it is possible to buy stainless steel soaps for removing odors.
Article Review: Smellkiller Stainless Steel Hand Soap and Air Cleaner goes even further and suggests that a stainless steel soap (or any other piece of stainless steel) partially submerged in water works as air cleaner in the kitchen.
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