I thought you might get a kick out of this...

Cooking Salmon in a Dishwasher

Needs:
salmon fillets
aluminum foil
a lemon
a few butter pats
electric dishwasher

Place the fish on two large sheets of aluminum foil. Squeeze on some lemon juice and place the pats of butter on the salmon fillets. Seal the fillets well in the foil, and place the foil packet in the top wire basket of your electric dishwasher. DO NOT ADD SOAP OR DETERGENT. Close the dishwasher door, set the dishwasher on the hottest wash cycle, complete with drying cycle, and let it run through a full cycle. When the cycle is complete the fish will be cooked just right.


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Sorry if this is old but it's the first time I've seen it.

It's kooky, that's for sure.

Saw the so-called Surreal Gourmet do something similar.

Zee

A few quick comments:

1) yes, it is old

2) you can cook fish - or any protein for that matter - on anything t hat gets hot enough (cooking a fish on a running V-8 is one I've heard of)

3) it's a very inefficient way to cook

4) it works

All that considered, thanks for sharing and thanks for posting.

Hi,

I hate low carb diets. I was trying to find a link for people cooking using their carburetor and kept pointing to diets. Once I used manifold instead, then I was graced with this alternative cooking method.

If anyone really does it, then I want to hear ALL about it!

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:If anyone really does it, then I want to hear ALL about it!

I've seen it done on TV, but I can't for the life of me remember the show. Heck, it might have been good eats.

edit: Aha, found it. It was on an episode of "The Surreal Gourmet". Recipe here
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Manifold Destiny

I’m not sure why you would want to cook of a car engine. Then again I just posted about a dishwasher.

gtron wrote:I’m not sure why you would want to cook of a car engine. Then again I just posted about a dishwasher.

Think of this scenario:
You are on the road, driving across country. You wake up in the morning, get your breakfast at the local diner (homemade biscuits and gravy? Sure, you bet!). After breakfast you go down to the local market and buy yourself a chicken and some root veggies. Put them together with some herbs and a splash or two of olive oil and white wine, wrap the whole thing in heavy duty foil, strap it to the engine and take off down the highway, stopping in a few hours to rotate the package on the manifold. By the time you're done driving for the day, dinner is ready.

That's about the only way I can see doing it. I may even try it some day.

gtron wrote:I’m not sure why you would want to cook of a car engine. Then again I just posted about a dishwasher.

When you think about it all you are doing is applying heat to cook a food. The source of heat doesn't make that much different if the food is wrapped. Cooking on a manifold has been around for decades. Pot roast was the usual meat that was cooked.

Years ago, I used to work on a carnival, one of the ferris wheels used an old steam tractor for a motor to run it. A few of us went fishing and caught a huge salmon. After the show closed, we wrapped the salmon in foil, with some butter, onions, lemon, S & P, and put it off to the side of the firebox to cook. Meanwhile, we had wrapped some potatoes and apples w/butter, sugar, and cinnamon in foil and put into the front of the engine. The potatoes and apples cooked faster than a microwave and the flavor was much better. The estimated temperature was around 800º or more. The fish, potatoes, and apples were great.

i see the light.

That is an interesting way to cook salmon I must say. I took note of the warning not to add soap or detergent and I am thinking to myself "well obviously not, why would you even have to mention that" but some people might need the reminder otherwise it will probably taste weird.