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by astrange 657 days ago
There's a trend in his videos where he can barely smell things that everyone else notices, so I always wondered if he burned his nose out on an experiment.

(The other thing I wonder is, does he just keep all that equipment around that gets used like once a year?)

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It’s also possible that it’s COVID-19 related.

I lost a large swath of my olfactory palette in 2021 when I contracted COVID, but recovered some after a few months. Still to this day, I struggle to taste different foods, which is a bit painful because of how excellent my partner is at cooking.

He has a pretty large lab you can see in some of his videos. It's not like any of his equipment is massive. I expect he can keep everything around.