can you cook using dishwasher salt?

[lummox]

I know it sounds disgusting, but I want to bake a whole fish in salt and haven't got enough ordinary salt.

on the packet it says it's just salt, so would it be OK?

I'd taste it. If it tastes right it probably is!!

Why do you want to cover a whole fish in salt, just out of interest?

it tastes very salty! i think it's just ordinary salt saltiness, though.

it's a recipe for sea bass from the bbc website - i'm not sure what the salt does exactly, though.

go for it

I've always fancied baking a whole fish in salt but have never had enough salt - I'm obv thinking as creatively as you...

this websitre says DO NOT INGEST

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aren't there any warnings on the packet??

NO NO NO

Dishwashing products if eaten are a reason for dialling 999 - I'm looking at page 78 of hte NHS direct book.

No idea- but you can cook a fish in the dishwasher. You have to wrap it in foil.

bump - don't use dishwasher salt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ah. right. glad I came back to this thread.

sadly too late to not cover the fish in dishwasher salt, but think i might give it a miss now.

no warnings on the packet, no. it's French dishwasher salt if that makes any difference.

looks like it's something from a tin for us.

thank you though. it's a long way to A&E from here!

pootlepod - are you serious?

Yes, but I don't know the details- like what cycle you have to use and which fish works best. Seem to think it's like steaming/poaching- but don't know if you are supposed to do the dishes at the same time.

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That recipe looks great pootlepod - I particularly like the bit just to the side where it says that you could just bake it for twelve minutes instead.

Am now wondering if i was a little hasty - I can see that other dishwasher products shouldn't be eaten (so it would have been ott to use rinse agent in the sauce) but the salt does seem to just be salt.

can't u just nip out to the corner shop? Y risk it love?

By the time you have come on here posting and reading replies it would have been quicker to go and get some proper salt.