Happy 3 Year Anniversary! Let's Celebrate with Good Old Dishwasher Food Safety | Episode 155

About this episode

In this episode, hosts Francine and Matt celebrate the podcast's 3 Year Anniversary by revisiting the topic of cooking food in dishwashers and sharing insights on food safety.

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are celebrating the podcast's 3 Year Anniversary with a blast from the past: the salmon in the dishwasher, the podcast's first inside joke. If you've been listening for a while, you probably know that cooking your salmon in the dishwasher is a BAD idea. Now, tune in to discover all the other things that people put in their dishwashers and what experts have to say about it. Thank you for listening, and here’s to another year of the Don’t Eat Poop! Podcast. In this episode: 0:00:00 A party trick for your Super Bowl watch party 0:07:18 Why cooking in a dishwasher is a BAD idea 0:15:36 Part 1: Strangest things put in dishwashers 0:19:07 Questionable ways to thaw poultry and more 0:23:56 Part 2: Strangest things put in dishwashers Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice. Resources from this episode Catch up with our "fun" episode from a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matthew Regusci, Francine L Shaw

Topics covered

• food safety
• dishwasher cooking
• salmon
• poultry thawing
• podcast anniversary

Keywords

• food safety
• dishwasher
• salmon
• cooking
• poultry
• anniversary
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Consumer Reports

Products: salmon, dishwasher, poultry

Books & works: Netflix series about the Australian lady who killed in-laws with Beef Wellington

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