As long as the dead mouse is in your home, the smell will get worse with time as the animal decays. So itâs important to find the carcass ASAP and get rid of it to stop the smell from getting worse. To locate the dead mouse in a wall or enclosed space, follow your nose.
Most cucumber plants contain compounds known as cucurbitacins (âkyew-ker-BIT-a-sinsâ) that cause fruit to taste bitter. At low levels, you arenât likely to detect them. But high levels of cucurbitacins produce extremely bitter fruit. Some cucumber varieties possess a gene that inhibits their formation.
There are numerous ways to muddle a cucumber wrong, but only one way to do it right, and âgentlyâ is its mantra. When you muddle cucumber, you want its essence â the esters responsible for its clean, mild taste â to come through, not the remnants of flesh that result from pulverizing it.