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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cooking smell" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the aroma or scent that comes from when food is being prepared or cooked. Example: The enticing cooking smell wafted through the house, making everyone's stomachs rumble in anticipation of dinner.
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There was no cooking smell I liked better than her meatballs frying in a large black pan.
So get out the baking tins and the brown paper and fill the kitchen with the second best cooking smell of all (the first being toast).
… If you've been grilling all day, the cooking smell goes into your clothes.
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Noxious cooking smells — asafetida, like a gas — pervaded the house.
But he avoided "cooking smells and 'family life'".
People in the street speak odd languages; the neighbours' cooking smells strange.
Cooking smells and smoke from the open kitchen often permeated the dining room.
You could live up inside oneand learn to like it, cramped quarters, cooking smells, and all.
You'll never come home to weird cooking smells emanating from across the hall.
Christine wore a strong perfume that mingled, sometimes unpleasantly, with the cooking smells.
Cooking smells and the occasional tinny clatter of a radio drift out.
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