• @[email protected]
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    128 days ago

    My dad once made a homemade smoker out of an old dishwasher, and smoked salmon was one of the dishes we cooked in it!

  • GladiusB
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    226 days ago

    This seems possible but energy inefficiency. Cooking fish is really easy. Seems unnecessary.

    • @[email protected]
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      An older guy said sometimes people would season and bag steaks and keep them submerged in hot tubs in the 80s.

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    28 days ago

    In case it isn’t obvious to everyone, the salmon wouldn’t be up to temp. It might look “cooked” but its internal temperature physically cannot rise high enough to kill all of the microbes dwelling within. Before putting it in the dishwasher, I recommend poaching it in a vinegar solution to dissuade anyone from eating it.

      • [email protected]
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        228 days ago

        You just reminded me that the tide pod challenge existed. What a terrifically stupid way to die

    • @[email protected]
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      427 days ago

      People eat salmon raw all the time, as well as “undercook” it. Salmon really shouldnt get above ~125f, it’s super delicate and overcooking ruins the texture. Run a hot rinse and dry cycle and I have no doubts it would be cooked through, if not overcooked.

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      If it’s held at a slightly lower temp for longer it can achieve the same bacterial reduction the 145F the usda recommends, its the instant bacterial death time. Inctheory if held at temp for long enough it would be safe to eat. It’s still a stupid method but technically viable.

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        228 days ago

        You’d need to wash it at least twice, maybe three times. But then it loses its only advantage, ambient cooking with your dishes, and gains a disadvantage, running your dishwasher twice or thrice to clean off the fresh fish biome that has seeped out onto the dishes below your fish

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          Oh yeah I’m saying it’s technically viable, not that it’s actually any good. Also if the fish is wrapped properly then it shouldn’t be leaking fish juices onto the plates.

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            228 days ago

            I’ve lost my faith in humanity, so I wanted to make it perfectly clear why one should avoid doing this. Just a touch of childproofing, I wasn’t trying to disagree with you

      • @[email protected]
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        228 days ago

        Are you telling me that nation that made super popular show about cooking doesn’t know how cook?

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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          327 days ago

          It is fucking delicious. And easy as shit to make too. It’s got like 4 ingredients and takes 30 mins start to finish. My family used to eat this a lot when i was growing up because we were poor and busy and this is cheap and easy. But its one of the “poor people” foods im most nostalgic about

          Ingredients

          • 1 can of cream of mushroom
          • 1/2 milk
          • 4 cups green beans (they don’t have to be fresh, canned or frozen can work too)
          • French Onions

          Cooking

          • Mix everything into a pan (except the onions) and cook at 350f for 25 mins
          • Sprinkle French Onions on top
          • Cook for another 5 minutes

          If you want to get really fancy you can sprinkle some shredded cheese on top after it cooks (I like Parmesan (but only the saw dust stuff in the tube), or sharp cheddar). It also makes great leftovers because it microwaves really well, and can be frozen and thawed with no issue.

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            For non-unitedstatesians: “French Onions” does not refer to the nationalty of the alliums, or the manner in which they’re cooked. It is a specific product:

      • Bubs
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        828 days ago

        DO NOT DISRESPECT MY GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE

      • @[email protected]
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        1728 days ago

        You can pass that my way if you’re not going to eat it, easily my favorite thanksgiving side dish.

  • @[email protected]
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    728 days ago

    Don’t let Americans cook means you don’t know about actual American food like gumbo, sausage gravy, chili, or tri tip (among dozens of other dishes). It’s a sad, bland world without American food.

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      227 days ago

      For real! Southern and soul food, texmex, barbecue, Cajun dishes, pizza (Italians can get bent on pizza, we perfected that shit), Mac and cheese, lobster rolls, MOTHERFUCKING CHILLI, chocolate chip cookies, buffalo wings, New York style cheesecake, the majority of the good deli sandwiches, even hamburgers! As much as people shit on hamburgers, that shit slaps. Hell, we even invented the grilled cheese. I fucking hate america but the one thing I’m unapologetically proud of is our food. Don’t let Americans cook? Eat a po boy and shut the hell up

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    This was a viral clickbait thing a few years ago. It only existed on twitter and Facebook and Instagram and thankfully I haven’t seen it turn up again any time recently lol no one actually cooks like this, even here in America

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      628 days ago

      Well, there’s also this.

      I believe Maytag once ran a commercial back in the '60s or '70s or something that implied you could cook a turkey in their dishwasher as well, boasting how powerful their heating element was for the dry cycle.

      I should also point out at this juncture that an awful lot of dishwashers these days including almost all import brands (Bosch in particular, also LG, Samsung, Asko, Miele, Smeg, etc.) are “condenser dry” machines and don’t have the heating element for drying anymore. You’re unlikely to cook anything satisfactorily in one of those. You could hope for the wash water being hot enough to do it, but I’m not playing any bets. Maybe you ought to select the sanitize rinse option…

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        I’m assuming dishwashers have their own water heater (if at all) since you typically only connect to the cold supply line? And they can’t be that powerful as they are fed from a regular 120v line and only draw maybe 7-10 amps, which includes the jet pump.

        Edit: I assumed wrong

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          All modern dishwashers do indeed have some type of water heater. Not all of them have a drying heating element anymore, since excising that was the quickest way to massively reduce the total per-cycle energy consumption regardless of all other factors. IIRC by something like around 60%.

          Additionally, American (unlike many European) dishwashers are almost without exception designed to be connected to a hot water line rather than cold; Typically your home’s water heater is more efficient (or at least superficially cheaper, given that so many homes still have goddamn gas fired water heaters) at heating water than the dishwasher itself is, and certainly faster since the majority of homes have a storage tank heater that can be expected to already be full of hot water. The less heating the dishwasher has to do to the water the better its energy consumption rating will appear, which the manufacturers love. (Offloading the energy requirement for heating the water to your central water heater also shifts the cost/blame to the water heater and away from the dishwasher, allowing them to put a smaller number on that yellow Energy Guide label, even if taken from the big picture view this is prima facie bogus.)

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            328 days ago

            Just checked my DW and yup, sure enough, it is connected to the hot line. I was thinking of the refer line. I’ll be honest I never really put much thought into it and now I feel silly.

            I actually am American lol. I’m an electrician by trade, so I was thinking more in terms of the equipment on board of the DW itself, but this is much more logical now that I think about it. I let plumbers do their thing and avoid installing/servicing appliances for customers (although I did just pull a 24" hair snake out of my shower drain this morning, smelled wonderful).

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        428 days ago

        If you were going for low and slow, you could pipe in melted butter and have a self basting semi sous vide thing going.

    • @[email protected]
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      1428 days ago

      This was a fad in the early 1990s. I know a few people who tried it. I don’t know anyone who did it twice as it tends to require you to clean your dishwasher before and afterwards.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        728 days ago

        It was on an episode of Home Improvement. Not sure if the show started it or if it was just referencing the existing fad.

        • @[email protected]
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          328 days ago

          lPossibly referencing the fad depending on how early it aired. The show was on before I learned about dishwasher salmon.