Pareezay

Whenever my mom is frying tarka for the daal or whenever she heats up zeera or mirch, everyone in our house just cannot stop coughing. My room is upstairs but even then it's so bad. Any advices besides drinking water?

marwah

open up all doors and windows? that's what we do

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Mirch

Buy a gas mask.

funguy

Stop doing tarka. Why are desis so obsessed with over-cooked food?

Ira

shay, we never have this any time i or ammi do tarka.

Lusi

Tarka is not over cooking of food.... My mom never adds lal mirch in tarka therefore we never had this problem. Basically it is lal mirch that cause coughing.

Mirch

The kind of tarka she is talking about would make anybody cough. Try frying ground chili in very hot oil.
There are many kinds of tarka's we avoid to do the kind of Tarka she is talking about due to the same reason.

TLK

put a box fan on kitchen window facing outside and start runing it full speed even before she starts the process

Femme Fatale

if you keep the oil at a medium temp instead of high i think it shoudn't be as bad. I dont; rememebr what we do. If im not mistaken we add the spices to the daal while cooking it and tarka is only of oil, ginger and garlic or oil and garlic, plus green chillies. or if we r using dried red pepper that we add to the oil too. no powder mirch and haldi and stuff.

Kaka MaNNa

How is daal suppose to come out all tasty if you don't cough over it? Think about it... it happens for a reason.

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Rukhsarbibi

you poor child lol
tell your mum not to put the oil on high heat and over fry the stuff she is putting in the tarka. I do tarka with just zeera, onions and garlic and it doesn't smell bad at all.

subbo

lolzzz
turn on the exhaust fan.

this for sure is an unique issue!!!

Mirch

No it is not an unique issue , it happens all the time. I open all the windows even in winter time before my wife does that kind of tarka.

soni27

hasnt this tarka business been goin on in ur house since u were born?..n ur askin this now?..how white-washed r u?..lol

Lusi

It doesn't have to do with being white washed or whatever. A question just poped in her mind and decided to ask if there is any alternative besides drinking water that helps calm down the smell of frying red pepper. If you have ever fried dried red pepper or roasted them, you'd know the smell is very strong and it will give some irritation no matter how long you have been cooking it, smelling it, or whatever.

armali

Turn on the exhaust fan, keep windows open,keep it on medium heat,and then cover it quickly... thats how mom does it....

when I am the one making daal...no tarka

chanda_kh

shay..keep the room ventilated.....the spices in the air irritate me too...

SaadiaB

lol


start cooking yourself

and dont add those red dried mirch in the oil. The smell of tarke never leaves the home, no wonder our desis .....*edit*.