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The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad
(news.berkeley.edu)
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Bet you it is, since most people are simply unawarw of the things they should be smelling for, and since many people don't cook their own food they have no confidence in their abilities.
Seems a little weird to assume diminished sense of smell based on their comment comparing their sense to that of an electronic device tailor made for smelling...
Does practice cooking improve your ability to smell when food has gone bad? It seems like an instinctual hardwired thing to me.
I didn't interpret their comment to mean that their nose is not as sensitive as the electronic sensor, I read it as "my nose isn't very sensitive".
The experience does help when it's ambiguous, since you can tell that it shouldn't be like that before it gets to a point where you retch.
Plus it also helps you tell when your sense of smell is throwing a false positive. For me personally, I'd be more likely to lean on my cooking experience, since my hardwiring would automatically file all raw meat, including fresh from the butcher, as being off.