What is the most interesting thing to cut olfactorily, in your opinion?

When I saw the thread title, I thought.... Sweet here's my chance!! I see I'm too late.

Bushwhacking through coastal scrub like black sage, CA sagebrush etc certainly has a distinct scent. Lots of rosemary and lavender has gone rogue in the few neighborhood areas... delightful to smell while clearing.
 
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Ratatoskr said:
definitely metatarsal glands
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Metatarsals are the long bones in the feet. I wasn't aware there were any glands there.


Olfactory? Slicing pumpernickel bagels!
 
Big Devil’s Club plants. The thorns are nasty, the skin/bark makes great tea, and the smell when you cut them is unlike any other plant I have been around.
 
K.O.D. said:
Metatarsals are the long bones in the feet. I wasn't aware there were any glands there.


Olfactory? Slicing pumpernickel bagels!
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I have a feeling it was meant as simply tarsal glad like deer. 😀
If you want a real olfactory overload- hit a dorsal gland on a javelina!🤣
 
beeinak said:
I have a feeling it was meant as simply tarsal glad like deer. 😀
If you want a real olfactory overload- hit a dorsal gland on a javelina!🤣
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I've heard durians can be olfactory overload, but we don't get them this far north.

Oh and I guess in deer there is a gland called a metatarsal. Interesting.
 
This thread is borderline fetish!


I harvest my sweetgrass with a knife and so far it's the most satisfactory scent ever.
 
beeinak said:
I have a feeling it was meant as simply tarsal glad like deer. 😀
If you want a real olfactory overload- hit a dorsal gland on a javelina!🤣
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If you're cutting into a javalina, expect a bad dinner. Haven't partaken, but the reports are not good.

They smell plenty bad without knives being involved at all.
 
UncleBoots said:
If you're cutting into a javalina, expect a bad dinner. Haven't partaken, but the reports are not good.

They smell plenty bad without knives being involved at all.
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Lol. I spent many years in Texas and I was raised to eat animals you kill, so I have tasted javelina more than once. It is horrid no matter how it is cooked (in my experience). Really rank! Now feral hogs on the other hand are some tasty critters! Grilled back strap and tenderloin is something I miss from there.
 
Interesting good or interesting bad? Because if you cut some dirty, old carpet the ghosts of a thousand scents past will rise to haunt you. It's not pleasant, but it's definitely interesting.
 
I am fond of kidney dishes, but if I'm preparing kidneys myself, there's no escaping the urine odor, no matter how extensive your cleaning process is.

On the interesting/good side, it's hard to beat the aroma of a white truffle from Italy being shaved. Much more interesting than actually eating the dish it's being shaved over, in my opinion.
 
UncleBoots said:
If you're cutting into a javalina, expect a bad dinner. Haven't partaken, but the reports are not good.

They smell plenty bad without knives being involved at all.
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Javalina stew. The best way my buddies and I found to do it.
Much prefer wild hog.
 
I once ended up getting an odd "temporary" job working at a funeral home through a family friend, wound up working there for 4 years as a funeral director and embalmer...

Most fresh cases weren't bad at all, but those "autopsy been sitting in a cooler for 3 weeks".. those always had plenty of interesting smells 😅
 
There's a Camphor tree in front of my place. It's not great wood, but I like to whittle it for the smell as it's carved.
 
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