Self-healing mats and non-healing mats are made from different materials. They all outgas differently and at different temperatures. Self-healing mats outgas a lot when they are newly manufactured. Some brands are worse than others. I have found that the harder the mat is, the less outgassing. The downside is they kill your rotary blades really fast. There really isn't a magic cure except time and maybe optimum conditions.

collards - haaaaaaaa hhhaaaaaaa - you go girl!!! glad they don't taste like they smell

By the way, a little off topic, what about a new hower curtain liner -- Whew -- I hand those in the garage (separate form the house) for a week before we can stand it.

I vote for Oust! Once had a solid waste accident that I had to clean out of carpet, saturated the area with Oust after cleaning the solid matter and never had even the slightest lingering hint.

Great stuff.

Hysterical! :P

I once broiled salted cod fish during the summer. Had all the flies in the neighborhood banging on the screens and neighbors wondering what had died. I pleaded ignorance!

i would return it and get another one , smell it before you buy it

That's hilarious! Thanks for posting it. I needed a good laugh.

Thanks everyone for all the great tips. It doesn't smell quite as funky as it did, but I can still smell the vinegar in the kitchen. I am going shopping today; may buy some collards. In the meantime I am going to put on a pot of pickling spices or just some cloves & cinnamon to "freshen" up the kitchen. My moral to this is to always remember to smell your purchases before buying. The people around you may look at you funny, if so just tell them you are checking for BO, or MO (mat odor).

If you have a bag of charcoal, you could open it up and put it in the center of your kitchen, the charcoal should remove the odor. Not sure about the mat odor though.

STOP and think, that smell is telling you it is ofgassing some of its chemical compounds, I'd isolate it, or return it.:)