smells... you will not be able to prevent where ever you are.. but ya these things make real inpression on you.. you said it doesnot have vent.. so that might be a problem with the smell specially nepalese food. and its a open kitchen... surely the smell will spread fast.. leave the spices even heating the oil will spread the scent all over.. and nepali food we all know and how strong our spices are... you might also want to think about the celing.. it might be greasy... since you have a home may be you want to rethink about your cooking habits. if i were you i would prefer to have a wall cooking place with a good exhaust vent.. when i say exhaust vent i mean it needs to have outlet with a chimney.. peace...

shrestha8 · Sep 12, 2009 11:29 AM

I have heard, people having a seperate kitchen in the backyard or garage to cook nepali food. 

freeURmind · Sep 12, 2009 12:11 PM

May be the reason , the original people of Kathmandu uesed to have kitchen on the top floor, no body smells it and knows what we eat.  That is why we had a proverb, no one should know what you eat and how much you donated'

syanjali · Sep 19, 2009 1:14 PM

Also, in ktm, most of the times windows/doors are open w/ lot of ventilation and the houses are made of cement, so it's harder for the smell to be sucked in and retained for a long time... at least, that's what I think :) Somehow sajha deleted my pic, so I'm attaching it again.

omahaguy · Sep 20, 2009 9:30 AM