Entitled guy demands his roommate stop cooking pork in her crockpot every 2-3 weeks because it makes the apartment smell like pork: 'Open the window or get your own place.'

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Jan 20, 2026 6:00 PM EST

If he can't handle smelling something unpleasant once every two to three weeks, he's not going to make it.

If your roommates don't do something that annoys you a little bit, you're probably living with a robot and not a real person. If you decide to cohabitate with other people, you have to get used to the fact that they're going to do little things that you don't like, and you're going to do little things that they don't like. It would be borderline impossible to find a living situation where everyone is never annoyed with each other, and if you keep trying, you're never going to stay in one place for very long.

The most important thing is figuring out which annoyances you can accept and which you need to discuss with your roommate. If the bathroom floor is soaking wet every time they take a shower and they don't bother to clean it up, it's worth having a conversation about. But if they forget to take the trash out once after consistently doing so before, it's probably best for the household if you let it go. 

The kitchen is one of the biggest sources of conflict for roommates. If you've devolved to the point where you're arguing about one roommate using a dollop of another roommate's ketchup, it might be best that you stop living with each other as soon as possible. Some people have strict boundaries about what another roommate can do in the kitchen, but it shouldn't be too hard if you're using common sense. If you want to use your roommate's food, ask first. If you make a big mess in the kitchen while cooking, clean it up. It shouldn't be too hard to live with another person, but that wholly depends on the kind of person you're living with.

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  • The dude in this story is being wholly unreasonable about the restrictions he wants to put on his roommate. He wants her to refrain from cooking pork, which she only cooks once every couple of weeks, because it makes the apartment smell like pork. What a baby.

  • Am I the bad guy for asking my roommate to stop using their crockpot?

    My roommate recently started cooking pork in a crockpot every couple weeks. Even though they put it under a running vent, after a few hours, our whole apartment smells like pork.
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  • I keep my door closed but the smell gets in anyway. Something about the way crockpot food smell floods the air and just...lingers...makes me gag to a point where I can't stand it.
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  • They sometimes cook vegetables in it and it's just as bad. Last week, I hit a breaking point and asked them to stop using it.
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  • They said they're doing everything they can think of to keep it contained, but that it's not reasonable to ask them to stop cooking.
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  • AITA and should just learn to deal with it?
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  • ike7177 YTA-they are cooking. Open a window and get a fan. Nothing unusual here
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  • keesouth YTA. This is a personal problem. It would be different if it were one food but you're complaining about a specific appliance. Buy a fan or air purifier for your room.
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  • DarkHorseAsh111 YTA. It's once every few weeks. Open a window, use an air purifier. If you live with other ppl you're going to sometimes have to smell them cooking things.
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  • jbyrdfuddly If you can't stand a roommate cooking in a crockpot every couple weeks in a community space, then yes YTA. Grow up.
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  • Arya Stark1313 Open the window or get your own place. YTA
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  • summertime-sadness07 Doesn't basically all food smells linger?
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  • Conscious_Side1647 yta- welcome to roommate living! you share the space and both have equal access to use it in a normal fashion. cooking with a crock pot isn't abnormal at all
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  • crackerfactorywheel I'm gonna go with YTA. Cooking releases an aroma in the air. I'd get an air purifier.
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  • jessness024 YTA. Asking a person not to cook the way they want in a shared kitchen space Is not reasonable. Especially if you are all paying the rent. Get used to it or live alone.
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