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Today the roomie was googling for next Friday's Dinner-with-Buffy recipe, and found this (sorry, it's in German...):

Lachs aus der Spülmaschine

Auch wenn Sie es nicht glauben: Auch mit der Spuelmaschine koennen Sie kochen.

1 Rezept
Lachsscheiben
Dill
Roter Pfeffer
Zitronenscheiben

Ganz besonders gut klappt es mit Fisch wie zum Beispiel Lachsfilet.

Die Spuelmaschine hat naemlich einen Vorteil: Der heisse Wasserdampf hat ueber die ganze Spuelzeit hinweg immer die gleiche Temperatur von etwa 80 Grad - geradezu ideal, um etwa Fisch zuzubereiten.

Wuerzen Sie also Lachsscheiben mit Dill, rotem Pfeffer, Zitronenscheiben, - ganz nach Belieben - und schlagen Sie die einzelnen Filets in Alufolie dicht ein, am Besten das Ganze noch in Frischhaltebeutel.

Legen Sie die Paeckchen in das oberste Fach der Spuelmaschine und ueberlassen Sie alles weitere Ihrem Spuelprogramm. Nach dem Spuelgang haben Sie nicht nur sauberes Geschirr fuer das Essen, sondern sogar schon eine Hauptspeise, naemlich koestlich duftenden, butterzarten Lachs!

You know what the craziest part is? The roommate says she wants to try that.

And I can't tell whether she's kidding.
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I can't read german but it's pretty well known that you can cook fish in the dishwasher, we used to talk about in my diet classes I remember when I was doing Weight Watchers.

Seriously? I was 99% sure that it was a joke.

Huh. Now I'm almost tempted to try it myself. (The recipe says that the dishwasher has just the right temperature for fish).

I googled it and it came up with over 200,000 hits, seriously

check these out, just the first 3 that came up

http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/dishwasher.html
http://www.surrealgourmet.com/html/recipes/ditdaal.html
http://www.salon.com/nov96/salmon961118.html

The things you learn on the internet.

Ah. The first link says that you shouldn't add detergent. The German recipe fails to mention that.

I'm intrigued. I might really try this out, if only to see if it really works. Though I wonder why they all say to use aluminum foil; a tupperware box seems like a more suitable choice, 'cause, watertight...

Foil probably conducts the heat from the hot water to the fish better. A tupperware box, by putting air around the fish, would instead serve to insulate it.

Hey, I've seen it done on TV. The Surreal Gourmet did it on his show....I thought it looked pretty weird. Just remember not to put soap in the dishwasher!

Yeah, that was the part that made me boggle particularly hard, for the recipe above fails to mention that small fact.

That makes sense. It might work with tiny boxes... Maybe I'll try both and compare, when I'm in an experimental mood.

This is the strangest conversation I've read on LJ all day. :D

It does have a surreal quality. Heh.

BWAH! Considering dishwasher liquid is poisonous, I would hope not.

I wonder if you can put in a few dirty dishes though, so as not to use a whole dishwasher cycle just for some salmon. That seems not too energy-efficient.

I'm giving this way too much thought.

I'll eat some delicious raw matjes herring instead, and go back to the drawing bord.

Just for giggles we did that once. Be sure you seal the foil up tight, so no water gets in. And yes. NO detergent..lol. It really does work though.

No detergent, check. But what about dirty dishes, I wonder? Because otherwise it seems like the waste of a perfectly good washing cycle...

We ran ours on the 'pots and pans' cycle, without anything but the foil wrapped fish in it.

Wow, that actually make a strange kind of sense, except for the bit where the German recipe mentions the clean cuttlery...

Glad to read you're not actually supposed to use detergent, that seemed pretty funky...

Why buy an expensive steamoven, when you've got a dishwaser...Might try this over the holidays (if my mother in law will let me...she's kinda protective of her dishwasher :o))

she's kinda protective of her dishwasher :o))

I'm still more worried about the fish... or rather, eating it. ;)

I was when I thought you added detergent and everything but if it's just an empty run it sould be clean steam, right...So I'n not really worried about eating it. Having pictures of the fish splattered all over the insides of the dishwasher though...