Here's One For the Books -- Dishwasher Cooking

**Nada.Leona** · 01-23-2010, 09:20 AM

Seriously, this would have never even entered my mind, but apparently you can poach fish in the dishwasher.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/11/dishwasher_cook.php

**Grainlady** · 01-23-2010, 10:26 AM

There is a food safety issue about using a dishwasher for food preparation. If you do the salmon recipe, as long as a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the fish reads 145° F, it’s safe to eat.

Here's another interesting recipe for Dishwasher Lasagna: http://www.partselect.com/JustForFun...r-Lasagna.aspx

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher

**Contrary Housewife** · 01-23-2010, 10:28 AM

I had heard of this before, but isn't it a huge waste of water?

**Vanilla** · 01-23-2010, 01:54 PM

Very interesting, not sure

if I would ever use the dishwasher to cook food. But interesting to know, no less. Thanks for the info.

**dcompton** · 01-23-2010, 01:56 PM

I had heard of it too, but not eating fish it was only a curiosity. But I agree with Contrary Housewife. It always seemed the hard and expensive way to do things. I don't cook fish, but can't you do that in just a few minutes on the stovetop? I'd also heard of the safety issues.

**Lady_V** · 01-23-2010, 02:00 PM

I think I'll pass on this cooking method...

even IF it didn't freak me out about cooking food in a dishwasher, and trusting the water to be hot enough to get the job done...

I would probably go through an entire roll of tinfoil to make sure no water got IN to the food... AND the tin foil would end up leaking anyways and get food all over the dishwasher

**dcompton** · 01-23-2010, 02:16 PM

And then your dishwasher would probably smell like raw fish for months.

**Lady_V** · 01-23-2010, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by dcompton

And then your dishwasher would probably smell like raw fish for months.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!

**Contrary Housewife** · 01-23-2010, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by dcompton

And then your dishwasher would probably smell like raw fish for months.

I don't buy fish that smells.

People won't buy chicken or beef that has gone funky, why do they assume it's normal for fresh fish to smell that way?

**NikoSan999** · 01-23-2010, 05:23 PM

Why would anyone even want to?

**frugalfranny** · 01-24-2010, 01:21 AM

OMG - this is as bad as the cooking on the car motor thing!!

I'll pass thanks........

**frugalwarrior2** · 01-24-2010, 09:10 AM

Oh FF you beat me to it. That exactly what I was thinking. Just because you caaaan doesn't mean you shooould.

My Up North cousins used to have these bbq's where they used a new aluminum garbage can to layer food to cook. Our family always refused to go. I worried about leaching.

**AnW819** · 01-24-2010, 01:39 PM

No thanks...why not just cook fish the way your suppose to, lol.

**Grainlady** · 01-24-2010, 05:10 PM

Dish washers, vehicle motors, sunny back windows of cars, garbage cans... and people think I'm odd for using a Solar Oven (LOL). I used to have a cookbook for "cooking" in an electric coffee pot, of great interest back then (before the microwave) for college students living in a dorm.