Cabbage, anyone?

[What About Bob]

This is probably going to sound really out there. For the last two development runs I have noticed that after dumping the stop and the fixer out from the tank I get this odor of what I can best describe as cabbage. The odor doesn't stay for long. These last two development runs I had switched from developing T-Max 100 to Catlabs 80 with my usual PQ universal process that I have been playing around with for about a month now.

Did I just create something new in my bathroom?

 

[reddesert]

Cabbage's typical odor comes from sulfur in sulfide compounds. Fixer can sulfur out; your fixer may be reaching end of life.

 

[koraks]

Some films can smell a little funky. Old Kodak color films would have a very strong phenolic smell for instance. Same with some old printing papers.

I wouldn't make too much of this, really.

 

[What About Bob]

Cabbage's typical odor comes from sulfur in sulfide compounds. Fixer can sulfur out; your fixer may be reaching end of life.

I just finished another clip test and emptied the fixer from the tank. The odor hit me, lol. Going to make a new batch.

I got something out from this that was positive. I finally have what looks like a neutral black tone, lol.

 

[MattKing]

As I've taken in the last few months to making sauerkraut, I clicked on the thread title with interest and curiosity.
Sadly, I'm at least slightly disappointed .
Perhaps you have confused your bottles of fixer and kombucha?

 

[F4U]

It has been my experience whether actually true or not, that "rapid fixer" sulfurs out more quickly than regular acid hardening fixer like Kodak Fixer. And even if it hasn't sulfured out noticeably, can exhibit all sorts of smells. And not always the common stinky rotten egg sulfur smell.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

That's almost as good as my caffenol-print-developer-then-fixing-smells-like-tuna, days!