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Redneck sous vide.
An older guy said sometimes people would season and bag steaks and keep them submerged in hot tubs in the 80s.
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
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…
If you were going for low and slow, you could pipe in melted butter and have a self basting semi sous vide thing going.
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
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.)
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).
Yea no ones doing this
to be fair a teacher at my elementary school in the mid '00s told my mom that she does this, I remember it distinctly
I’m going to do it now just to spite you
Haha that’ll be a nice spite bite
tom scott is
lol he’s an automatic exemption to nearly everything
Just don’t tell his landlord
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.
It was on an episode of Home Improvement. Not sure if the show started it or if it was just referencing the existing fad.
lPossibly referencing the fad depending on how early it aired. The show was on before I learned about dishwasher salmon.
Do not let the americans cook.
Are you telling me that nation that made super popular show about cooking doesn’t know how cook?
A serving of green bean casserole
Bone ape tit bro
Yeah I’m just gonna say it, that looks fucking delicious, S-tier side dish
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.
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:
It’s definitely also the name of the manner in which they’re cooked though, at least regionally here in the US.
My point is it’s not that. It’s the can.
Just because they’re not called French’s French Fried Onions doesn’t mean they aren’t French fried onions.
And you gotta use these ones for casserole. Its in the constitution or something
how to substitute the cum glazing in the recepie? i don’t have any
I’ll be right over.
Are you so deprived you don’t know what cream of mushroom soup looks like?
i don’t like mushrooms
Use cream of celery or cream of chicken even.
You can sub for basically any cream of blank. Just think of something that goes well with green beans.
Never was a fan of any kind of beans.
How do you feel about jeans.
Existing off of nothing but government subsidized dead animals is a nice life.
DO NOT DISRESPECT MY GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE
You can pass that my way if you’re not going to eat it, easily my favorite thanksgiving side dish.
We let the dishwashers do it for us
My dad once made a homemade smoker out of an old dishwasher, and smoked salmon was one of the dishes we cooked in it!
Can I also cook Salmon in the dryer?
Mmmm salmon hummus 🤤
No, it will get beat up. If it’s a tumbler anyway…
Nah, I don’t have a smart dryer so there’s no way it’s on Tumblr.
Yea but it’s tenderizing the meat!
you need to use that weird rack that snaps into the middle.
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.
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
It is true. There is amazing food in the US.
Collard Greens. Get them done right, and they are like crack.
American cooking is awesome, just stay away from the fair-food and fast food.
How do I get them done right? I’d love a new recipe for collard greens, total cabbage head here, my head is made of cabbage.
this isn’t american food; how many people in america do you know with a dishwasher?
…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.
medium to large cities in california; apartments.
Wut
Every9ne I personally know has a dishwasher.
… I know one person in this country who has a dishwasher. what the hell?
According to my brief googling, there are 131.43 million households in America, and either 79 or 80 million American households own dishwashers. I could not find a breakdown by state, but I suspect they’re predominantly popular in wealthier areas, and less popular in poorer areas.
Someone I know moved into an apartment with no dishwasher, and they were like “fuck this” and bought a countertop dishwasher. So apparently that’s a thing.
I’m pretty sure it’s a space thing. How many millions of people in New York live in half a closet, where your “home” is the place where you sleep and recharge your phone, and you spend every waking second out and about in the city. You don’t have a kitchen much less a dishwasher. Meanwhile I’ve never seen a double wide mobile home without one equipped from the factory. I would be surprised to find a multi-bedroom family dwelling without a dishwasher.
it might be an urban/suburban-rural thing? lived in a lot of apartments without them.
idk what it’s worth but the ONLY place I’ve seen without a dishwasher is my sister’s college dorm 🤷♀️
I seen this episode of Everyone Loves Raymond. Except it was clearly a mistake.
Finally some culinary representation.
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.
I’m imagining the shits the dishwasher detergent residues give you would be brutal
You just reminded me that the tide pod challenge existed. What a terrifically stupid way to die
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.
If you’re referring to sushi, it’s usually flash frozen. Only times I’ve seen raw raw salmon were in Thailand and Hawaii.
And it’s less to do with it being cooked through and more about the temperature being too low for a proper cook, leading to a bacterial bloom in a 50 degree paradise.
Unless you’re buying from a fish market or catching it yourself, the majority of seafood is flash frozen on the ships that catch them. If you grab a salmon fillet out of the freezer section of your grocery store, odds are it’s flash frozen, and thus, safe to eat raw. Fresh caught salmon is similarly safe to eat raw provided it’s consumed or brought below 40f in sufficient time.
Raw seafood is recommended to be stored at room temperature for under two hours if you’re intending to consume it. Tap water is usually heated to 120-140f in the US. And the drying cycle is normally 110-170. A typical rinse and dry cycle is 30-90 minutes. With the increased thermal conductivity of water and metal foil, the rinse cycle should rapidly increase the temperature of the fish and the dry cycle, aided by the increased ambient humidity of the rinse, will easily maintain that for long enough to raise the internal temperature of the fish to, at the very least, the usual 125.
The only way this could not be the case is in an extreme outlier. Say a washer with a 30 minute total rinse/dry, with tap water that does not exceed 120f, and a dry cycle that does not exceed 110, and with fresh caught fish that has been sitting on the counter for a couple of hours before being placed in the washer. It’s very unlikely for this to be the case.
I’m not saying anyone should do it, it seems pointless and weird. But it’s technically possible and should be reasonably safe
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.
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
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.
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
Oh good, now I can stop using the top of my good ol’ 1970s TV. As a bonus, maybe my wife will stop mentioning the smell.
Please say sike 🤢
Protip: If you suggest the fish smell is coming from her you won’t have to worry about it anymore.
I can’t believe this is a real article. It looks like a parody.
I mean I’ve cooked entire meals in the engine bay of a car before 🤷
