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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:27 PM Nov 2013

How you cooking your turkey (if you are)? How about in the dishwasher?

Let's set the scene: you're hosting Thanksgiving, and have an oven's worth of side dishes to cook and reheat. How can you lighten the load on this kitchen appliance during its most active day of the year? Burke says you can cook your Thanksgiving turkey in the dishwasher. Dishwasher turkey. You read that correctly. This is a dishwasher turkey recipe.

Yes. This kind of dishwasher. Can this really be done? Why would you ever even try to find out? Well, the legend goes like this:

In 1982, Burke worked as a private chef for a family in Oslo, Norway. The family requested cold poached salmon for a buffet that Sunday evening. The group of chefs went out and caught themselves a 10-pound salmon. After realizing they didn't have any cooking vessel large enough to cook the whole fish in, Burke's notorious creativity kicked into gear. He seasoned and wrapped the salmon, then hung it on the top rack of the dishwasher, where the glasses typically go. Three cycles later, he was rewarded with a perfectly poached whole fish, and has been experimenting ever since.

Which brings us to today. Now, before you all lose your freaking minds the way we did when we first heard about this, we want to stipulate that Burke is not suggesting you wrap up an entire, 20-pound Thanksgiving turkey in cling-film and toss it in the dishwasher -- his recipe calls for turkey breasts only. Still, if you want to give your oven a break (and probably freak out your relatives as an added bonus), we got Burke to share his Thanksgiving dishwasher turkey recipe with us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/dishwasher-turkey-david-burke-thanksgiving_n_4323355.html

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How you cooking your turkey (if you are)? How about in the dishwasher? (Original Post) The Straight Story Nov 2013 OP
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Won't. Work. trof Nov 2013 #2
If you add salt and pepper where you usually put diswashing powder will it automatically season? PoliticAverse Nov 2013 #3
"Does this turkey taste fishy to you?" pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #4

Response to The Straight Story (Original post)

trof

(54,256 posts)
2. Won't. Work.
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:51 PM
Nov 2013

Many years ago a friend had the bright idea of cooking corn in the dishwasher.
Results?
Hot, wet, raw corn.

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