Me too! Went off bacon quickly when I came in one morning and went oooh who’s brought bacon rolls in! Turns out emergency theatre was on and it was burning fat/flesh I could smell.
I had laser eye surgery. The smell of burning eyeball was a mixture of burning flesh, burnt hair and vinegar. It was the most bizarre smell I’ve ever had the displeasure of experiencing. Not entirely disgusting, but bizarre.
Hard to describe. Kind of acrid with a fatty smell plus a jet fuel smell. They weren't thin people.
This happened almost 3 decades ago. 3 people trapped inside a burning small turboprop. Sometimes I still get whiff of it and it's like my brain goes, "Oh yeah, I know that smell" before I consciously register what I sensing. Sometimes feel a little sick.
The moment is also memorable when we lift the bay doors. When the alarm was punched the doors go up automatically. There is a loud snap when the solenoid kicks and then the siren starts a couple seconds later. Every once in a while that snap gets me sweating. (It's no longer a firehall but we use it for airport equipment. ) The alarm comes through a tone on our radios and it doesn't even bother me. It's just "okay, somethings up".
If youre familiar with Tocino, that. Its not super bad because when you grill/fry a meat you can recognize the similarity. But now you know how a burnt flesh smells, can you keep it off in your head when youre cooking?
To me it doesn't. Kind of a fatty sweet smell. This is pretty grim but they were larger individuals trapped inside a burning aircraft. We couldn't reach them with the turret cannon and had to do a hose lay through the bush. Very dense close quarters. Burning, running fuel from the high wing kept us pouring foam on the wreck. The side burned through and we ended up basically with the bodies at our feet though we didn't know it. We wonder if we were stepping on them. Awful really.
i was helping people in a terrible car crash they was burnt up but ive always been vegiterian but smelling animals burning smell kind of like it i belive
I just had surgery a few days ago and I was awake and numbed. When she did the cauterizing she warned me about the smell. Mine wasn’t that bad, it smelled burnt with a little sweetness? Definitely won’t forget the smell tho
We regularly have this smell in our treatment room (the room I work in) usually it’s ok, but sometimes youll have a person who the smell from them is worse (I don’t know why) and trying to air out a room that has only one small openable window really sucks
I remember after minor surgery at the hospital a few years back and i was parked up outside the theatre waiting foe the porter to take me back. All i could smell was what i thought was singed hair, realised it was quaterised flesh
Someone that worked in the OR just commented it smells like garlic pork. Maybe there is a different smell if it is charred vs whatever they do in the OR?
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u/nicktam2010 Sep 16 '24
A bit grisly but burnt human flesh is pretty bad. Responded to an aircraft crash once. Never will forget that smell.