Cooking fish in the dishwasher

Everyone knows the purpose of a dishwasher – washing dishes. Many long-time users of such equipment would never have thought that you could cook any food in a dishwasher. Yes, maybe it can’t be prepared there, it’s just that people on the Internet rewrite someone’s fake news, not realizing that they were just being played on. Let’s not make hasty conclusions; let’s study the issue in more detail. Let's see how people manage to cook fish in the dishwasher, and we'll try to do it ourselves.

Is this possible?

To find out if you can cook something in your dishwasher, you need to know what happens in the wash chamber during the wash program. And during washing inside the chamber there is real hell, not the same as in the oven, but still hot water and high temperature steam (60-70⁰C), which circulate for 2-3 hours. If you simmer fish at a temperature of 65⁰After 2.5 hours it will be perfectly processed, while retaining maximum beneficial properties.

During washing, the dishes in the baskets become so hot that if there were food in them, they would gradually cook.

The Italians were the first to master this method of using a dishwasher.. Following them, the Germans and Americans began to experiment. Of course, there are few fans of this kind of cooking. Still, from an aesthetic point of view, contact between dirty dishes and the dishes in which food is prepared is inappropriate. But if you are not squeamish and you have suitable airtight containers, you can try cooking fish. We will now share the corresponding recipes with you.

Salmon stewed in foil

You cannot cook a huge piece of meat in a dishwasher; after all, the temperature inside is not that high, although, of course, you can conduct an experiment. But the fish after the washing chamber looked quite edible, moreover, it turned out to be tasty and this is how we prepared it.

1. We cut the dressed fish into several thick pieces.
2. We put the fish pieces in brine for 30 minutes (a glass of water, a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of sugar).
3. Place the pieces in foil and generously sprinkle with lemon juice.
4. Wrap the pieces well in foil and put them in the refrigerator to rest for 1 hour.
5. Uploaded to dishwasher Bosch SMV24AX02R dirty dishes, put fish wrapped in foil in the upper basket and started an intensive wash at 70⁰WITH.

As a result, when our fish was removed from the dishwasher at the end of the program. The foil on top turned out to be noticeably warm, even after rinsing with cold water. Having unwrapped the foil, we couldn’t believe it, as the intoxicating smell of freshly cooked salmon hit our noses. It tastes like classic steamed red fish. It's not the same as baking fish in foil in the oven, but it still tastes amazing.

Fish in a baking bag

Next we conducted an even more daring experiment. We decided to cook the whole fish in a baking bag. They took a one and a half kilogram carp. We marinated it for 2 hours in an enamel bowl with five tablespoons of olive oil and three tablespoons of lemon juice. Added salt. After two hours, we put the carp in a baking bag, tied the bag and sent it along with the dirty dishes to the dishwasher.

Like last time, we turned on an intensive washing program and left the carp to “wash”.Somewhere in the middle of the sink, a specific chemical smell (detergent) began to spread through the kitchen, through which the smell of steaming fish clearly broke through. This smell caused mixed feelings for us, however, the washing continued, and with it the experiment. As a result, a very tasty fish was removed from the bag. We can’t say anything about preserving vitamins and microelements, but the fish tasted excellent, as if it had been cooked in a double boiler.

To summarize, we note that you can cook excellent steamed fish in the dishwasher. But personally, this experiment caused some disgust for us, because a dishwasher and food are psychologically incompatible things. Of course, if you get creative, you can cook noodles in the toilet tank for the sake of experiment. But this does not mean that this should be done. We are proponents of using the dishwasher for its intended purpose, although as an experiment it is interesting and even fun!

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