# dishwasher turkey
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 30, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638 "2002-11-30T15:57:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638/1 "2002-11-30T15:57:55Z")
I heard a new one the other day. At Thanksgiving dinner at my brother in laws, two friends said they cooked turkey in a dishwasher! Put it in, and ran through the cycles, and then took it out and browned it in the oven. ??? Anyone out there tried this? and survived?
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### Author:  [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638/2 "2002-11-30T15:59:33Z")
What detergent did he use?
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### Author:  [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638/3 "2002-11-30T16:07:23Z")
I’ve heard of smaller items like a Salmon being cooked in the dishwasher, but nothing as big as a turkey. A average 12lb turkey takes what, 3-4 hours in an oven at 350? No way could a 1 hour dishwasher cycle at perhaps, 175 cook a turkey.
I call bullshit.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638/4 "2002-11-30T17:17:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by YPOD \*
> \*\*…Put it in, and ran through the cycles, and then took it out and browned it in the oven. ??? \*\*
I hope they browned the turkey long enough to reach 180 degrees F in the thigh (that’s the USDA recommendation).
Like bernes I’ve had fun passing on the recipe for dishwasher salmon. And I had a crazy cousin in Alaska who actually did the salmon thing and say it works.
Please be careful of playing around with fowl.
This sounds like the beginning of a Thanksgiving UL that could be dangerous.
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### Author:  [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2002, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-turkey/139638/5 "2002-12-01T11:41:53Z")
[Is it true that you can cook/bake a turkey in the dishwasher?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=118335)