Health and Fitness : Dishwashers Are for Cleaning, Not Cooking

A new, but unsafe, cooking trend is to use the dishwasher in place of the oven or stove top.

The creator of this newfound cooking technique recommends cooking food in a vacuum packed bag or airtight container to protect it from the other dirty dishes.

The benefit, she states, is that it is environmentally-friendly because you can cook your meal and clean your dishes simultaneously. The bottom line is that this is a very unsafe cooking practice because dishwashers are not designed to cook foods.

There is no effective way to monitor the temperature of the dishwasher while it is running. Foods such as fish, poultry, eggs, and beef need to reach specific temperatures in order to kill pathogens. The best advice is to stick to the conventional ways of cooking and not risk making your food unsafe to eat by using inappropriate cooking practices.

REMEMBER: A dishwasher is meant only for cleaning dishes.

It is not intended to cook food.

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