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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Soleil06 on 2025-12-21 16:49:42+00:00.
So I am currently at my parents house to avoid all that christmas train traffic. I work a lot of nightshifts so my current sleep schedule is delayed by quite a bit, ie I usually go to sleep at around 5-6am. Well this night I was already lying in my bed at around 4am but felt pretty hungry and not at all sleepy. So I decided to go downstairs into the kitchen and look for something to eat. Sadly my scavenging hunt did not return anything that would satisfy my hunger immediatly so I decided to make myself some simple spaghetti with tomato sauce for which they nearly had all the ingredients. With the exception of Garlic.
My Dad loves Garlic but sadly cannot eat fresh one since that makes him bloated and gives him stomach cramps so they usually do not have any raw garlic in the house, this will be relevant later.
So I decided to go downstairs and look through their cellar pantry which is very well stocked with a lot of non perishables. After some looking I found some olives and a small unassuming bottle with a label that only said garlic Oil, aetheric with nothing else written on it. I thought to myself "Jackpot! This means I have Garlic for my tomatosauce at least" unknowing of the horrors that small silver bottle contained.
I took my finds back up to the kitchen and started preparing my tomatosauce, I diced some onions and heated the sauce pan. Then I opened the bottle with the garlic oil, I tried to find some instructions as to how much of it to use on the bottle but apart from the afore mentioned text there was nothing on it.
I tried to smell it and was immediatly greeted with an overpowering smell of garlic. I remember thinking "huh, this is some concentrated stuff, better use only a little of it" and proceeded to use maybe a quarter of a teaspoon into the pan. As soon as the Garlic oil hit the hot pan with the onions and olive oil an overwhelming smell of garlic filled the kitchen. But, sadly for my parents my nose went blind pretty soon after so I proceeded to continue preparing my food. I cooked some spaghetti and used some crushed tomatoes to finish my sauce, by this point my nose was burning a little bit from all the aetheric oils that were released by my unholy concoction on the stove. I was a bit worried by that point that I probably used too much of it when I took a drink of water and it tasted like someone had squeezed three fresh cloves of garlic into it.
Disregarding that I went outside on the balkony for a smoke break while my sauce and noodles were cooking. When I went back into the kitchen 5 minutes later I almost fainted, it was like someone had shoved two cloves of freshly crushed garlic right up my nostrils. The smell of garlic was incredibly overpowering. Since I was really hungry by that point I still proceeded to make myself a generous portion including some freshly grated parmigiano. I then ate about half of the plate before realizing that I did not really taste anything except garlic.
By this point my stepmom came down since the permeating stench of garlic reached through two doors into hers and my dads sleeping room and woke her up. She was kinda baffled in the first place as to why the fuck I was sitting in the kitchen at 5 am in the morning apparently cooking and asked me how much Garlic I had even used and where I found it. I innocently pointed to the small bottle standing nearby and her eyes fell almost out of her head.
Apparently she did not even know they had another one of these bottles. My dad bought them a while ago to see if using them instead of fresh garlic would make him able to enjoy garlic without suffering from stomach problems. She asked me to clean up everything well and air out the kitchen and tiredly went back to sleep.
By that point the worst of my hunger was sated and I got pretty tired of eating something that just tasted like garlic so I threw the half of the noodles that I did not eat away. Same with the rest of the sauce which I had determined to be not really eatable by this point. Then I cleaned up the pots, opened up the windows and went to brush my teeth and then go to sleep.
When I woke up today everything my mouth felt like I just chewed on garlic. My stomach was burning and everything smelled like Garlic. I went downstairs to get some water and the gwrlic smell continued to intensify. I found my parents sitting in a very unusual spot outside the kitchen and giving me glares of death.
My dad then proceeded to explain, the garlic "oil" i had been using was highly highly concentrated. 40 ml of it equalled 32 KILOGRAMMS of freshly peeled garlic according to the website of the producer. The quarter teaspoon I had used was equal to about 5-8 kilograms of fresh garlic.
So now the whole house smells incredibly nauseating like garlic, my clothing smells like garlic, the kitchen smells like a WW1 battlefield if the germans had used garlic gas instead of mustard gas and my parents have not stopped glaring at me for the whole day.
TL;DR Unknowingly used highly concentrated garlic oil while cooking equalling about 5-8kgs of fresh Garlic and now my parents house smells like death.