This might be caused by polyurethane degradation which happens when the material gets hot.
Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
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#1325 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
It's interesting. Bad capacitors ( http://news.cnet.com/When-good-capacitors-go-bad/2100-1041_3... ) maybe?
Can't be, burned capacitor smell is extremely sweet, like something strong being baked.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
most people were i came from associate italian lime to cleaning products, but i think it is mostly because it was so heavily used in such. i love the taste but i cant drink anything with it. it is impossible after I've smelled it.
Rose water for a long time smelled like a cleaning product to me, Turkish Delight and Rose Lassi I thought had chemicals in them as a result. ;-)
Along the same lines, toasted sesame oil smells like acetone to both me and my wife.
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#134Maybe this is something that's only smellable by a certain subset of the human population. I invited a family member to try Chipotle once. She complained of a soapy taste in the food. We both thought maybe a staff member had been careless about rinsing hands after washing with soap. I later learned that some people have a genetic predisposition to perceive cilantro, an herb common in Mexican food, as a soapy taste [1…
There's also the genetic predisposition to perceive brussels sprouts (and other foods) as too bitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster IIRC this is one of the SNPs that personal-DNA-sequencing companies like 23andMe can test for.
Ah, brussel sprouts. Alton Brown had a whole episode of "Good Eats" within he explain the phenomena. I was never able to eat them, turns out most people over-cook them releasing the bitterness that I find horrid.
To solution is to wash them, split them and roast them in the oven with carrots chunks and potato wedges after seasoning with garlic, salt, pepper. When the carrots are done, remove everything and serve in bowls. Great cold day treat.
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#135Maybe this is something that's only smellable by a certain subset of the human population. I invited a family member to try Chipotle once. She complained of a soapy taste in the food. We both thought maybe a staff member had been careless about rinsing hands after washing with soap. I later learned that some people have a genetic predisposition to perceive cilantro, an herb common in Mexican food, as a soapy taste [1…
There's also the genetic predisposition to perceive brussels sprouts (and other foods) as too bitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster IIRC this is one of the SNPs that personal-DNA-sequencing companies like 23andMe can test for.
This is an unfortunately chosen term for an ill defined group of people. The ability or inability to taste certain specific compounds is a genetic variation of chemical receptors and should be traceable through the family line. The term Supertaster on the other hand seems to be chosen as a catch-all to maximize the number of people who identify with it.
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#136Apple Macbooks smelled like body odor in 2005: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/207887
I remember that; I seem to recall it being eventually tracked down to a run of keyboards coming from a particular manufacturer that was using bad rubber. I was working at a Mac repair shop at the time, and before they sorted this out, we'd have to give all the replacement keyboards a "smell test" before using them or sending them back as bad parts.
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#137Apple Macbooks smelled like body odor in 2005: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/207887
That's really weird, as every Apple laptop (~6 or so) I've had has the exact same smell, to the point I thought they were scenting them prior to shipment.
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#139Ahh, memories. Reminds me of when ThinkPads were still made by IBM. We used to call them StinkPads back in the day.