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Innovation abounds in our modern society with brave souls venturing forth to squeeze every last use of existing hardware. A recent innovation is using a dishwasher to cook food:
The dishwasher is every home cook's best friend after dinner is served. But did you know you can use it to prepare that dinner as well?
[...] There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to imparting the wisdom of dishwasher cooking, there was even a Mythbusters episode dedicated to it.
[...] An experiment, conducted this month by Australian consumer advocacy group Choice, looked into this bizarre phenomenon to determine whether or not it was safe to cook stuff in your dishwasher.
The company's white goods tester whipped up a meal of honey soy salmon, coconut rice, an Asian style spinach and mushrooms, and a darling little custard and fruit compote.
The verdict? "Delicious!"
The article provides practical considerations of how to prepare food for cooking in the dishwasher as well as what foods are or are not good candidates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @11:07PM (1 child)
My dishwasher uses about 1kWh of electricity for a full 50ºC 2h cycle that here translates to $0.12 morning to $0.23 evening. Not sure how much water needs though, but guess that in total about 5-6l.
Definitely washing by hand will use more water and less electricty for the warm water and less soap.
What it's horrible are the modern bio dishwasher fluids/tablets that is all you can find now. Years ago were not only much cheaper but also cleaned significantly better.
In fact the higher cost per cycle is the soap, more than the electricity and water used. So both options end costing about the same. The difference are the $600 of the dishwasher split between the expected 10 years of use, so you have to add an extra $0.16 per cycle.
Are you willing to pay $0.16 to avoid doing the dishes? Unfortunately you still will need to fill it up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:40PM
Uh, Hell yes. I hate doing dishes. And I have a nice big scar on my hand from a deep cut washing a chipped glass with a very sharp edge when I was a kid. I bought my first dishwasher 30 years ago and I have never been without since. I never ran the math because I didn't care how much it costs and always assumed it was much higher. I always believed it would be a bargain at a buck a load!
Would you rather take your washing board and lye soap down to the creek to save $0.16 per load on those expensive washing machines?
Blame those tree hugging hippies for getting phosphates effectively banned. It's not just dishwashers. They fucked up all cleaning detergents including laundry detergents.