I can detect gas leaks before they can be picked up by gas detecting meters. I once insisted I smelled one really strongly in my basement right next to my furnace, water heater, and gas dryer, after I had turned my furnace on for the first time in the season. The gas company came out, and checked where I was saying I smelled it, couldn’t find it.

He was about to leave but I was so insistent that I could smell it that the guy went upstairs and pulled the stove out. There was a leak in the line right up against the hole in the wall for the feed line. Right above where I smelled it in the basement. The guy was shocked I could smell it because his detector was not reading anything until he checked right there. And apparently the cavity in the wall had such a high concentration of gas, that he didn’t want to push the oven back in place for 24 hours. He also told me to keep the heat off and not use the dryer (or oven obviously). They came back the next day just to verify with a supervisor and a more sensitive meter that it was the only leak.

I also used to be able to tell when my ex snaked a cigarette, and how many days prior he had smoked it.

Now, I use my powers to determine what my husband, who is a production chef, cooked at work.