Supertech? - Cooking in the Dishwasher

The modern kitchen is chuck filled with modern technological appliances that are supposed to help us save time in producing high quality belly filling food. There are refrigerators and freezers for preserving food for long periods of time, ovens for baking and broiling all sorts of food, stoves for cooking, microwave ovens for warming and specialty cooking, bread-making machines, food processors, pressure cookers, etc, etc. However, recently, some cooking gourmets and their followers have found imaginative new ways to use kitchen utensils for preparing their food.

Bob Blumer, the writer of two very original cookbooks, has taken to preparing his poached salmon in his dishwashing machine. Blumer wraps his salmon fillets tightly in aluminum foil, and runs them through a full 50 minute wash-dry cycle, making sure not to use the cooler "economy" setting. Blumer claims that the taste of the salmon is not harmed if the dishwasher is run with dirty dishes and soap as long as the foil is well sealed and the water temperature is high enough. This way you can save time and energy by cleaning the dishes and poaching the salmon at the same time. In a recent article in Salon.com, Blumer recommends preparing a side dish of yellow string beans, steamed and glazed with lemon juice and butter along side the salmon inside the dishwasher.

Boat fishing enthusiasts adopt Blumer's salmon cooking technique to save time and space in their boats' galley, claiming that they don't sacrifice any taste of the poached fish. J.M. Hirsh, Associated Press writer, was inspired by Blumer's poached salmon a la dishwasher and tried making a full vegetarian meal of broccoli with sesame seed oil and almond slivers, carrots with butter and dill, and butternut squash with olive oil and mixed herbs. For fun, he also prepped a handful of soy-meat and feta-cheese wonton dumplings. While some of the dishes were very satisfactory, some of the others turned out undercooked, soggy or distasteful

We decided to try this method of cooking ourselves.  We tried salmon pieces with butter and lemon slices as well as fresh broccoli.
The fish and broccoli packets are sealed tightly and placed on the top rack of the dishwasher.
Packets are opened after going through the full wash and dry cycle.  The salmon was very tender, but lukewarm.  It had to be reheated in the microwave.  The broccoli was tough and even more cooking in the microwave couldn't save it.