[MonikaT]

Even a clean ginseng root smells like dirt! 1/2 of our house smells that way every time she puts a batch in the slow cooker. (Ever make tea that way)? And...., that's why I have to have a healthy shot of honey mixed in. The only thing I've found that smells stronger was one day I woke up in the back bedroom and couldn't breathe. My lovely wife was frying sliced korean peppers in the kitchen. I was out of the house for 6 hours. Fortunately, with advancing years, she can't eat them anymore. Thank God for small favors.

And here I was expecting you to say she was making kimchee. I used to work with a bunch of folks, all Anglos, who loved the stuff and kept a gallon jar in the fridge in their building. It was rough having to go to their building and fix computers as they sat around snacking on the stuff. All of the ingredients sound good to me, depending on the recipe (forget those with seafood), but the smell repels me.

I've never made tea in a slow cooker, but it seems reasonable to me.