Open plan kitchen: You have a range hood. It's the standard way of exhausting cooking smells, smoke, and oil droplets. You should probably have one even if you don't have an open plan kitchen.

I like my open plan kitchen because I can be cooking, and supervising my young kid playing in the living room at the same time. Or, if guests are over, I can be cooking dinner and still be part of the conversation.

Are you alright? I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

I don't generally put up with it, but who am I to dictate everyone else's standards for their own living?

> Also: open plan kitchen. You can't cook in there; if you do everything smells of cooking and it covered with oil mist in short order

Open plan kitchens are fine if you have a proper range hood, but yeah, some people undersize their range hoods... but also lots of people don't cook much.

Not the OP, but I guess the sex thing was about sound proofing.

I doubt most kitchens have a hood at all. I’ve seen a whole lot more of those fans that just spit the air right back into the room, through ineffective filters that no-one ever cleans or replaces, than real hoods. Those don’t seem to become common until you’re also looking at houses with those oversized commercial-alike ranges.