I thought my husband and his chicken loving family had taught me everything there was to know about chicken (although honestly I still can’t really tell the difference between white and dark meat). But this past weekend, I learned something new….
You can cook chicken in your dishwasher.
My sister-in-law Kimberly has actually heard of this cooking technique and found this website where they talk about using your dishwasher as an oven as if that’s a totally normal thing to do.
I’ll quickly recap the cooking process so you can get that chicken in the dishwasher in time for dinner tonight…
1. Wrap chicken in tinfoil and create a watertight packet. Put on the top rack of dishwasher. Don’t try to shove it in the silverware section.
2. Load your dirty dishes. But don’t puncture your chicken!
3. Run the dishwasher on the highest setting and once the dry cycle is complete, check to make sure there are no holes in your foil packet.
4. Confirm that the chicken is thoroughly cooked.
5. Place chicken on one of your newly cleaned plates!
6. And this is a direct quote… “Enjoy. Toast goes particularly well with dishwasher chicken.”
I think, “Toast goes particularly well with dishwasher chicken” is going to be my motto. For the rest of my life.
19 Responses to how to make dishwasher chicken
kelcey kintner
Now is the chicken suppose to be dead or alive when I put it in the tinfoil?
I’ve heard of poaching a whole salmon in the dishwasher (sans soap) but never a chicken. Very…um…interesting. I’d hate to be the one to realize that the 3 rolls of foil didn’t seal and that the skin was all soapy…lol.
Perhaps I like to compartmentalize a bit too much, but last time I checked, the dishwasher was for washing dishes, or in my mother’s case, discrete storage. I’m a bit disappointed that there wasn’t an accompanying pic to showcase the glory of the aforementioned dishwasher chicken. Seeing is believing, after all.
That is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot of potty training blogs.
Sounds dangerous to me.
I’m all for multi-tasking but ewww, this is just gross
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Things that don’t go in my dishwasher: 1) the bucket from KFC, 2) Star Wars Lego figures, and 3) food to be eaten after the Sani-Rinse cycle
Well, you have to learn something new every day… thanks for making that happen.
Right up there with cooking on your engine while driving. Both are wrong in my opinion.
And the point of using your dishwasher (which, in most kitchens, sits VERY near the oven, an appliance DESIGNED for cooking) to cook chicken is . . . ?
Great tip. Will add to my to do list:
1. Pop popcorn in washer/dryer
2. Disinfect kids in microwave
Hahaha!
Now THAT is (clean) finger lickin good!
I can’t tell if this is… for real or not? I beleive everything and I suck in the kitchen so maybe it works for some people? I for one would NEVER DO THIS OMG!
Nasty. I have nothing else to say.
No thank you. xoxo
Could I stuff the chicken with a little goat cheese and chopped kalamata olives or is that asking the dishwasher to do too much?
should this post be filed under “ways to get rid of that pesky family”? i <3 heart <3 e.coli!!!
And did you know that you can make a baked potato in your car? My friends and I have done just that. Wrap in alum foil, place on top of your engine, and enjoy your ride. After an hour or so, voila! baked potato. Arlene Yolles