Stainless steel kitchen sinks are particularly good for removing food odours from hands, it has been suggested.Lifehacker.com notes that stainless steel soap bars have grown in popularity as a means of removing odours like garlic and onion from hands.Although youll be hard pressed to find a scientific paper on the topic, people swear by using stainless steel soap bars, observed the website.If you dont want to shell out for one of the steel bars or would rather avoid cluttering up your countertop, you can always use your stainless steel sink, it added.Lifehacker said it had tested the theory by rubbing garlic-smelling fingers on both a stainless steel kitchen sink and a non-metallic countertop.It claimed that in the first case, the odour was radically diminished but that in the second it was not noticeably changed.Meanwhile, Maris Callahan, a writer for lifestyle website MyGloss.com, recently claimed that homeowners can improve their cooking prowess by making use of the latest kitchen technology.