There’s sort of answers deep in this thread but I want to answer directly.
Large amounts of food in your kitchen trash will definitely smell bad and should be tied up and taken outside immediately if you don’t want your kitchen (or entire house in some cases) to smell bad, but in general I think most people don’t have large amounts of food in their kitchen trash can most of the time.
Also note that as you get better at cooking, the parts that smell the worst when they go bad (high water and starch content) are usually the parts you eat, and you throw away the parts that don’t smell (dry parts like the papery part of an onion or the dry ends of asparagus).
My heuristic is that I take trash out immediately if I’m cleaning out my fridge or pantry, but I usually don’t take it out immediately after cooking (unless I’m doing something like peeling 20 potatoes).
So I think the answer to your confusion is that most people either don’t cook from scratch at all (and have nothing smelly in their trash) or have been cooking for a long time (and don’t frequently throw out large amounts of smelly ingredients), and you’re just in the annoying middle part and it will get better as you get more experience.
There’s sort of answers deep in this thread but I want to answer directly.
Large amounts of food in your kitchen trash will definitely smell bad and should be tied up and taken outside immediately if you don’t want your kitchen (or entire house in some cases) to smell bad, but in general I think most people don’t have large amounts of food in their kitchen trash can most of the time.
Also note that as you get better at cooking, the parts that smell the worst when they go bad (high water and starch content) are usually the parts you eat, and you throw away the parts that don’t smell (dry parts like the papery part of an onion or the dry ends of asparagus).
My heuristic is that I take trash out immediately if I’m cleaning out my fridge or pantry, but I usually don’t take it out immediately after cooking (unless I’m doing something like peeling 20 potatoes).
So I think the answer to your confusion is that most people either don’t cook from scratch at all (and have nothing smelly in their trash) or have been cooking for a long time (and don’t frequently throw out large amounts of smelly ingredients), and you’re just in the annoying middle part and it will get better as you get more experience.