Dishwasher Fish

[rpm]

I was watching an episode of the Surreal Gourmet where he poached a salmon in tin foil in the dishwasher.Just wondering what the strangest thing everybody else has washed.
When I worked at the nursing home, a pair of teeth went through the dishwasher,but that was by accident.

 

[j2400]

I've heard of using a dishwasher for fish.

As for strange things, one friend runs pretty much everything imaginable through the dishwasher--vases which have just been emptied, ceramic objets d'arte, and even pet bird toys.

 

[river_realtor]

Grill Racks is about all i can think of... I did run my cupholder inserts in there from the car, but not sure if that counts

 

[andrewinorlando]

My friend Carol use to wash her, um, sex toys in her dishwasher.....little vibrating things, etc. You get the picture. I never asked her what cycle she used.

 

[rinso]

I have a Braun cordless razor, designed for use in the shower. It cleans up beautifully when I run it and the stainless steel mesh head in the dishwasher. Have been doing it for a number of years now, and no problems. The razor still works like it did when it was new.

 

[rp2813]

When we lived in a rental the central heat & a/c system had an electronic air filter. It pulled out and went into the dishwasher for cleaning. I want one of those again!

 

[toggleswitch2]

I've heard of glass panes/panels from "chandeliers" in the DW.

You know the type: a pierced and beveled rectangular piece of glass fits over gold-toned hook/prod. Multiply by haf a dozen.

I tend to put refrigerator parts in mine. Stove/cooker knobs (if unmarked). The glass plate from the microwave oven, the dish-drainer and piece upon which it sits. Toaster-oven parts, etc.

~I've heard of using a dishwasher for fish.
~My friend Carol used to wash.............
Now there is a thought.

 

[dirtybuck]

Sex Toys Wash Cycle

My guess would be HEAVY DUTY or SUPER? I've heard of a few male friends who do this as well.

 

[vacuumfreeeke]

well..

When I read the title of this thread, I thought there was a new kind of dishwaher toy that swam around the inside of the machine during the cycle and helped to wash the dishes!

I've also heard of poaching fish in the dishwasher, someone on a cooking forum that I regularly attend said she tried it. Don't remember how it turned out though. I wonder if you'd put olive oil in the rinse aid dispenser and herbs in the detergent dispenser? I believe the fish is supposed to be wrapped in foil anyway.

I put the cat's water bowl in. I also do the plastic dish drainer, tray it sits on, and microwave turntable as someone else mentioned. The weiredest thing I ever tried was the oven racks. I had to remove the top dishwasher rack to get them to fit (not an easy task on a GE Nautilus)... used lots of soap and the heavy dutiest cycle possible. It didn't make a dent in them. All that trouble and I was still scrubbing them with a brillo pad the next day!

I threaten to put the cat in when he does something bad (taking the squirt bottle to the extreme!), but I'd never act on it.

I wonder if there are people who recycle ziploc bags and try to run those through the dishwasher!?

I've heard of sex toys as well, the old addage "don't $#!+ where you eat" comes to mind here!

 

[glamwales]

My grans false teeth

 

[foraloysius]

My Braun electric toothbrushes. I mean the bodies, not the brushes. They still work!

 

[oldhouseman]

How about

a computer key board, it took a week to dry out but was clean as new and worked fine.

 

[thor]

Glass Venetian Blind

Our kitchen has a glass "venetian blind" style window, with something like ten sections. Each glass "section" is about a foot and a half long. These come out easily from the window frame, and I wash them in the dishwasher, crystal cycle; they come out spotless!

I also wash the dish drying rack (Rubberemaid) we use by the sink. It also comes out spotless!

Emilio

 

[retro-man]

I have washed the blowers from the exhaust hood in the kitchen. Fishing tackle boxes opened up all the way on top rack. My wifes makeup kits with little compartments on top rack. Dish strainer also and the rubber thing in the garbage disposer. That thing gets disgusting. Lets see the drain stops for the bathroom sinks. That long stem gets pretty nasty. Ash trays and cupholders from the car and truck. The guy I workout with washes his baseball caps in his. All of the stove top unit pieces drip pans and rings.
Jon

 

[toggleswitch2]

~Our kitchen has a glass "venetian blind" style window.

AH! They are called Jalousie windows.

In Puerto Rico they are called "Miami Windows" If I recall correctly.

http://tva.apogee.net/res/rewjalo.asp

 

[ptcruiser51]

My ex used to wash the dog's bowls and floormat in the top rack. Customers have told me that they wash their metal kitchen garbage cans in it (wouldn't try with plastique). Anyway, how hard is it to poach fish on the stove for crying out loud?

 

[jwilson00]

put the washing machine detergent drawer in, oh the cats floor mat and bowls in, but thats bout as exotic as i get. i would never of thought of putting sex toys in, but brill idea

 

[thor]

"Venetian Blind"

Thanks Toggles, I've got a new English term in my personal dictionary, LOL. I'am so Jalousie of you all who know how to speak English!

 

[tuthill]

I used to wash pieces of my saxaphone in the dishwasher all the time. Mostly the mouthpiece which would get really really nasty.

 

[nurdlinger]

I'd like to point out

That all you guys' strange applications involved cleaning stuff, which is not all that unusual for the dishwasher.

The OP cited an instance of using it to cook food.

Does anyone remember the Seinfeld episode about the "Car-B-Que"?

A perfect time to apply the old maxim: just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD.

 

[sudsmaster]

Well, I have a fish pond in my garden. One of the koi died a few years ago and I put the carcass in the compost bin. The fish probably weighed about 2 lbs or more. The compost was heating up fairly well, up to 150F or more, and when I turned the compost a few days later there was a wonderful aroma of tender flakey baked fish! Of course I didn't even think of eating it (the fish are like pets, and I wouldn't eat anything out of a compost pile anyway) but this is an example of unusual cooking methods... lol...

 

[rolls_rapide]

Don't cook fish in a dishwasher

Several years ago now, my mother heard on the radio about a woman who did just that, and flooded her basement study! The foil and fish broke up and jammed the pump. Apparently the engineer was not amused, to say the least. The woman was highly embarrassed.

Sex toys in the dishwasher?!? How disgusting!

Domestic dishwashers are not guaranteed to sanitise for a particular time-period, so there would always be the chance of an organism lurking. Also, oxygen-based bleaching agents are not as powerful as chlorine bleaches, so germs could remain.

 

[thomasortega]

I always wash my washers´ dispensers and my sunglasses (I have a lot of them) quick cycle. it comes out perfect!

 

[gmmcnair]

Baseball Caps and Computer Keyboards

I have seen the dishwasher save many a computer keyboard that has been the victim of a stick spill, and I will second the baseball cap suggestion. Run it through a cycle, and place the cap on a mixing bowl to reshape it while it dries, and you're set. Best way to take care of them, IMHO.

 

[oxydolfan1]

"In Puerto Rico they are called "Miami Windows" If I recall correctly."

Toggles, I wonder if they call them "San Juan Windows" in Miami....

 

[djmjlcst]

Learned the hard way!

The most strangest thing I put in the dishwasher was the fabric softener dispenser from our old SQ washer (70's model). This was one of the old dispensers that did not come apart for cleaning. After washing it I noticed that there was just a hint of softener on the tines in the dishwasher. I had to run it several times with no dishes - just detergent - to get the remaining leftover softener out of the machine! Never again! Thank goodness the old GE Potscrubber died and went to the curb a couple years later! - Mike

 

[oldhouseman]

I had

salmon at a dinner party that was cooked in a dishwasher. It tasted great! Some years ago when I worked as a buyer at a hospital here in Atlanta the food service department could be found thawing out frozen orange juice in the dishwasher. I also heard they thawed out frozen meats that way. I had my doubts about it until one day when I had to see the food service director I noticed a cook coming out of the dishroom carrying a basket from the dishwasher that was full of ground beef. I didn't eat in the cafeteria ever again after that.

 

[tolivac]

I have washed used patchbays for audio patching systems thru a dishwasher-just rinse them off again after removing them from the machine.and small ceramic transmitter power tubes and vacuum capacitors-cleans up up really well.again rinse these off before reusing them.You may have to polish the silver plated parts after cleaning too.this is just for appearence-the black silver oxide does not affect the conductivity of the item.

 

[jetcone]

My Mom read about this fish recipe

in Readers Digest many many moons ago. In it they also had this family that had rigged up an oven in the engine compartment of their car so they could stuff and roast a turkey while they took the 5 hour drive to their relatives for the holiday!

I wonder what I could poach in my 1955 Bendix on HEAT WASH???
Dumplings???????

 

[neptunebob]

I would be concerned about food safety if the dishwasher did not get hot enough. By the way, I had a saxophone and washed the mouthpiece and the reed clamp (I forget what the name for it is) in the dishwasher every time so even if some of my notes were wrong, at least they were always clean!