Dishwasher Fish

[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!