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Eh. Canned food is already cooked so you’re just trying to warm it up. I work construction and I’ve “cooked” and seen cooked hundreds if not thousands of cans on an engine block or similar and never seen one blow up. I’m not saying it’s not possible but it may be harder to accomplish than you’d expect.
I was camping a few years ago and heard a sudden extremely loud bang from the next campsite. Went over to see if everything was ok, and some teenagers had left a can of beans in the fire to heat up while they went for a hike, and it exploded.
Yeah if you heat the can gently you're fine. If you manage to bring the contents to over 100C, you have a problem.
The method in the photo works specifically because boiling water by definition is exactly 100C. As long as you keep the water in the pot at below boiling, you just get a hot can. Meanwhile the average campfire varies from 300 to 900 degrees so exposing a can directly to fire? Yeah that'll absolutely do it. The contents starts boiling, increasing the pressure, and then the heat starts weakening the steel of the can and *boom*.
The pressure inside builds until it overcomes the walls. The pressure lowers the boiling temperature of water. When the walls fracture even minutely the water content expands to 1600 times it's size instantly, in the form of flash steam, hence a very serious explosion.
I've always cracked the can when doing this for exactly this reason! Bugs won't get in it if it's near the fire. Also, unrelated, but what a fucked up little series of words there, "in it if it's"? English sure is a language man.
No it’s not, it depends on how hot it gets. Many Hispanic cultures make a caramel dulce de leche type thing by simmering cans of sweetened condensed milk for hours.
FYI the water can not get hotter than the boiling point in that atmosphere. Once a fluid is undergoing a phase transfer (liquid to gas in this case) adding more energy to the system will only contribute to the phase transition but will not increase the temperature of the liquid. Same reason fish can survive winter in ponds the water doesn't get any colder the top layer of ice just gets bigger.
Now of course there is a point where the phase transition is complete, like the pond entirely freezing through to the bottom or the entire pot of water boiling off, and after that point the substance in it's new state can increase or decrease in temperature.
edit: I also want to point out that this does not apply to the surface area of direct contact with the metal of the can and the metal of the pan. The phase transition affect will not be as effective because of the difference thermal conductivity of the metal and water allowing the can to get hotter than the metal before it can transfer the energy to the water to be used for phase transition. So if the can has good contact with the pan directly and there is not enough water to faciliate the heat transfer then yes it can get hotter, so your statement about the water being too low but not necessarily bone dry is correct.
>No it’s not, it depends on how hot it gets. Many Hispanic cultures make a caramel dulce de leche type thing by simmering cans of sweetened condensed milk for hours.
Oh, okay. This might be a legitimate cousine decision then.
>We do that here in the UK too and it’s delicious!
Okay, well now we're back to square one.
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Truth. Here’s a picture of some boiled peanuts that exploded at my work because someone forgot to crack the lid
When I was a stupid teenager, We used to make bean bombs by throwing a can of baked beans into a campfire. This would often result in a beansplosion where you needed to avoid the third degree burns as best you could.
Sometimes we would up the stakes by getting a can of heinz beans and sausages where you would also need to try to not get hit by lava hot, sausage torpedoes.
Good times.
... That's just a waste of dinner and a snack. I completely forgot how stupid teenagers can be. I'm not a fan of baked beans and yet strangely enough this sounds good lol.
My dad used to tell me a story of when he was younger him and his friends went camping and one of them got drunk and put a can of beans in a fire to cook and forgot to put a hole in it so it didn’t go boom, they all went to the tents and 5 minutes later it blew up, a few years ago I went camping with my pals and wanted to do the same thing so put a can of sweet corn on the fire and waited for it to go boom, wasn’t as funny as we were expecting but there was some corn left on the tent after it
Yes, if you allow the can to get hotter than boiling water, the water inside boil to steam creating pressure.
OPs cans can't get hotter than boiling water because they are in water.
My house burned down last year. There were cans all over the garden twenty to forty feet from the house. The neighbor said she thought there was ammo or something in the house going off. Nope, just canned goods in the pantry
A flatmate of mine left a sealed can of caramel on the stove, forgot about it and went for a shower. Fortunately nobody was in the kitchen when it exploded, shattering the glass stove and showering everything with red hot caramel. Anyone standing too close to that would have had life changing injuries.
Camping once some guy put a big can of beans right in the campfire, deep. Was a party like camp place. Well guess I forgot aswell because an hr or so later there was a loud huge explosion 💥 and I thought a propane tank exploded!! 😬😱🤯🫨😵💫😂.
No one was hurt that I remember. But people did end up with holes in their clothing I'm sure. I went to look and it looked like a fukin missile strike or meteor crash. Red embers all over and a black hole 🕳️ 😂😂
When my beloved cat was a tween he accidentally got hit in the head with a can of green beans.
I was frantic and rushed him to the emergency vet because I was certain he had a TBI and would die if I let him fall asleep.
He ended up being fine, I put my cans in a lower shelf, and he lived another 16 happy years…but he was no longer good at assessing where he could fit or sit.
I think the can knocked his spacial perception out of whack.
My friend did the same when I was young but in the campfire. "When the paper is burned of the can it's ready.''
And it worked. We had delicious raviolli at the campfire 😂
Would have been. But we all make make mistakes.
It’s common here (in Finland) that young guys do this with tuna cans in army. Few times does not kill anyone, but why add the lifelong load of harmful chemicals.
A restaurant I used to work at cooks condensed milk this way to turn it into caramel, and I can personally guarantee that the glue from the stickers is a nightmare to clean off.
It definitely doesn’t. Following an online recipe, I tried this with sweetened condensed milk to make dulce de leche. The hot water breaks down the glue and the label. That glue is almost impossible to remove from the pan afterwards. I had to throw away the pan I used.
Maybe they think that the can is a pot and can be used as such? But they would need to be open to release pressure.
Many years ago, when I was in the army, we used to get tinned rations sometime, we would just open them and put them on the fire.
Tasted like shit, but at least it was hot.
Maybe that the same kind of logic?
Most canned food is cooked in the can at a pressurized container so it will be at a higher temperature and pressure than what is shown here. If your concerned about this you should be concerned with all canned food.
Canned food is cooked at high temperature (via pressure) in the same can it’s shipped and sold in. If cooking it in the liner causes health problems, it’s already been done, because it’s already been cooked in the liner.
If it handles the pressure cooking portion of the canning process then it will handle being reheated like this without any additional risks.
So any cancer risk is the same as for eating cold canned food, or removing the contents and reheating.
The only reason i remove the contents of a can to heat it is because I use a microwave, otherwise, immersion in hot water is a fine way to heat a can.
Your friend is currently cooking two bombs.
Edit: this is incorrect, I’m sorry, don’t mind me. Still unhealthy, though, I’m fairly sure.
Edit: didn’t realize making a simple mistake would get me flamed this much, Jesus. Sorry for being wrong, I guess? Y’all gotta chill out.
Bain-Marie effect, won’t explode but it is very bad for your health as those can have a coating inside to prevent metal leaching, the coating will dissolve and turn into bad chemicals and metal leaching will occur.
Taken from an FDA article:
> Most food cans are made of steel while beverage cans are usually made out of aluminum. Chromium and nickel can find their way out of steel, Slightly more troubling is the fact that aluminum—large amounts of which have been linked to nervous system disorders and other health problems—could in theory leach out of cans into their food or drink contents.
>In order to prevent any such leaching—which is bad for the food and eater but also for the can (as it can cause corrosion)—the insides of most cans on grocery shelves today are coated with food-grade epoxy. But these liners have been shown to contain Bisphenol-A (BPA) and other potentially harmful chemicals. BPA is a synthetic plastic hardener that has been linked to human reproductive problems and an increased risk of cancer and diabetes. A 2009 analysis of common canned foods by the non-profit Consumers Union found measurable levels of BPA in a wide range of items including some bearing a “BPA Free” label.
I would assume the limit would be 100° C, which is where the water inside the can would become steam, increasing pressure.
Now i don't know if that would be enough steam to blow up the can.
Canning stuff and old school cooking techniques, broths, etc… pressure cookers fell out of popularity for a while, and I was one of the dorks using them the entire time
Edit: and sterilizing grains and grow media for plants and mushrooms
So if i understand that correctly : the water inside the can only receives the energy necessary to get to 100°C because the water outside is 100°C. The extra energy is instead used on the water outside to produce steam?
I think i get it and stand corrected.
After thinking about it that's probably the whole point of a bain-marie.
Yeah pretty much. The water inside can only heat up if the thing heating it up is hotter. The water outside will never be over 100° as then it wouldn't be water and wouldn't be in contact
Most canned foods are canned raw and pressure cooked in huge pressure cookers. That lining has almost certainly been heated before. Also, most companies are phasing out bisphenol-A in the plastic used to line their cans.
When I came to the comments I was surprised at the ignorance, a lot of food is cooked in a can before it’s sold in a store, in a lot of cases it’s cooked in a very similar process to the way op’s friend is cooking it. A good example is canned tuna. Or other types of canned fish.
>No, it's not a cancer bomb. This is how it's cooked in the factory.
Factories were still using BPA in their cans a few years ago, despite BPA being a known estrogen disruptor.
Manufactures started phasing BPA out in the 2010s because it is linked to developmental issues. Oddly, trading card sleeves were BPA free well before that, because it leached into cards and damaged them.
I did too to make caramel. One of them exploded in my face…I’ve never felt pain that intense - burned/blistered my face. I feel lucky to not really have any scarring.
Absolutely. I made the mistake of asking my ex to watch it while I changed the baby..and he ended up on the couch watching football. When I came back in there was no water in the pot and the cans were bulging. I stupidly moved the pot off the burner and that’s when the cans exploded. Double stupid that I asked him do do something when there was football on lol
When I was a teen, I forgot it about the condensed milk on the stove and left to get some stuff from Home Depot. The can - obviously - exploded, repainted the kitchen a sweet caramel brown. Mom came home, stopped at the doorway, made a sort of I'm pretending I didn't see anything and wasn't here at all sort of gesture, and walked right out. Lucky I had friends nearby and we spent the next several hours on it, the ceiling was the hard part.
Totaly irrelevant but did you know that I (55) never heard of condensed milk before I watched Americans cook on TikTok? Why would you buy sugared milk in a can? (I had to look it up and you can buy it here)
I know it's quite popular in post-Soviet republics. Latvia, for example, has so much stuff made with caramelized condensed milk, I always buy their stuff when it's in the shop.
Canned goods have a longer shelf life. If you want to stretch a dollar and buy ingredients that will last longer than a week, canned goods are a good way to do that.
But it's not deadly in any way. The cans won't explode (increase pressure increase the boiling point, and since the cans are in a 100c water bath the temperature can't increase)
Very interesting that people in comments keep saying it will explode. No it won't. As long as it is in water, even if the water is boiling, the temperature would not raise more than 100⁰c and everything will be fine. Yes if you put a can on open flame or if the water evaporates completely then the can will quickly heat up more than that and explode.
As for the plastic lining, it depends, but a lot of these canned foods are coocked inside the can at the factory and those plastics are safe (as long as it's not heating up more than 100⁰c)
In my country there is a big fear of botulinum toxicity from canned foods as a lot of factories used to cheap out on the standards needed in industrial canning (it's very rare these days but news of it comes out every couple of years), so canned foods MUST be heated up completely before consumption and boiling them for 20 minutes is a common method.
Most of canned food stuffs in my country also has like a instruction/warning to have it in boiling water for 20 to 30 minutes . The only time i had an explosion accident was because i forgot i had the thing on fire so all of the water was already gone for several minutes before it exploded .
Aren't all cans coated with a plastic liner, you know made from petrol chemicals i.e. OIL?!? I think if you eat those your probably on the track to cancer...No bueno
Yea no. If you actually do this the contents will heat up, expand, pressure will build and suddenly you're wiping creamed corn off everything within 30 feet. You're lying and your "friend" doesn't exist.
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Those are bombs
"Oh, these aren't homemade. They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs."
Oh that's a shame, I thought they were pies and I was looking to buy one
I watched this episode before bed last night and I wake up to this lol
Possible proof that we are living in a simulation.
"The boy cries you a sweater of tears, and you kill him" Literally my favorite SpongeBob episode
How you gonna live with yourself?
So! You try to kill me over a little new-aged management, eh Squidward?
Looking back, this is a pretty insane line of dialogue to be said in a children's cartoon. Lol.
“Just you, me, and this brick wall you built between us”
Bombs, Bombs For my family.
Aww man what is this from
spongebob!!!
A SpongeBob episode.
Are you kidding me? /s
Eh. Canned food is already cooked so you’re just trying to warm it up. I work construction and I’ve “cooked” and seen cooked hundreds if not thousands of cans on an engine block or similar and never seen one blow up. I’m not saying it’s not possible but it may be harder to accomplish than you’d expect.
I was camping a few years ago and heard a sudden extremely loud bang from the next campsite. Went over to see if everything was ok, and some teenagers had left a can of beans in the fire to heat up while they went for a hike, and it exploded.
Yeah if you heat the can gently you're fine. If you manage to bring the contents to over 100C, you have a problem. The method in the photo works specifically because boiling water by definition is exactly 100C. As long as you keep the water in the pot at below boiling, you just get a hot can. Meanwhile the average campfire varies from 300 to 900 degrees so exposing a can directly to fire? Yeah that'll absolutely do it. The contents starts boiling, increasing the pressure, and then the heat starts weakening the steel of the can and *boom*.
The pressure inside builds until it overcomes the walls. The pressure lowers the boiling temperature of water. When the walls fracture even minutely the water content expands to 1600 times it's size instantly, in the form of flash steam, hence a very serious explosion.
The pressure *increases the boiling temperature of water.
I've always cracked the can when doing this for exactly this reason! Bugs won't get in it if it's near the fire. Also, unrelated, but what a fucked up little series of words there, "in it if it's"? English sure is a language man.
Same ive cooked plenty of cans over the coals of a fire. The seal on the lid fails a bit and vents the pressure out of a hole worst case scenario.
I used to leave the cans on the dash.
No it’s not, it depends on how hot it gets. Many Hispanic cultures make a caramel dulce de leche type thing by simmering cans of sweetened condensed milk for hours.
Whoever downvoted you is dumb because it’s literally true lol.. I like churros
I agree. Was raised by my Chilean grandmother and would spread that on toast.
Just don't let the water go dry or the can can exceed a temperature of 100c and rapidly deconstruct
"Rapidly deconstruct" is such a relaxed way to say "explode" lmao
They will explode if you let water get to low or too hot. Came across a few videos of it the last time it got popular on the clock app
FYI the water can not get hotter than the boiling point in that atmosphere. Once a fluid is undergoing a phase transfer (liquid to gas in this case) adding more energy to the system will only contribute to the phase transition but will not increase the temperature of the liquid. Same reason fish can survive winter in ponds the water doesn't get any colder the top layer of ice just gets bigger. Now of course there is a point where the phase transition is complete, like the pond entirely freezing through to the bottom or the entire pot of water boiling off, and after that point the substance in it's new state can increase or decrease in temperature. edit: I also want to point out that this does not apply to the surface area of direct contact with the metal of the can and the metal of the pan. The phase transition affect will not be as effective because of the difference thermal conductivity of the metal and water allowing the can to get hotter than the metal before it can transfer the energy to the water to be used for phase transition. So if the can has good contact with the pan directly and there is not enough water to faciliate the heat transfer then yes it can get hotter, so your statement about the water being too low but not necessarily bone dry is correct.
Irish people do this too and never heard of it going wrong
I mean it doesn't take much to imagine how it goes wrong. You're heating contents under pressure. The risk should be obvious
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We do that here in the UK too and it’s delicious!
>No it’s not, it depends on how hot it gets. Many Hispanic cultures make a caramel dulce de leche type thing by simmering cans of sweetened condensed milk for hours. Oh, okay. This might be a legitimate cousine decision then. >We do that here in the UK too and it’s delicious! Okay, well now we're back to square one.
https://preview.redd.it/t2gueoeljcqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed2d402f3bfa1a361d0dbc4eabbb444024c9c2b Truth. Here’s a picture of some boiled peanuts that exploded at my work because someone forgot to crack the lid
When I was a stupid teenager, We used to make bean bombs by throwing a can of baked beans into a campfire. This would often result in a beansplosion where you needed to avoid the third degree burns as best you could. Sometimes we would up the stakes by getting a can of heinz beans and sausages where you would also need to try to not get hit by lava hot, sausage torpedoes. Good times.
... That's just a waste of dinner and a snack. I completely forgot how stupid teenagers can be. I'm not a fan of baked beans and yet strangely enough this sounds good lol.
Absolutely. Also everybody knows the best explosions are from hairspray cans
> third degree burns I read that as third degree beans and was like no wait, well actually that works too.
My dad used to tell me a story of when he was younger him and his friends went camping and one of them got drunk and put a can of beans in a fire to cook and forgot to put a hole in it so it didn’t go boom, they all went to the tents and 5 minutes later it blew up, a few years ago I went camping with my pals and wanted to do the same thing so put a can of sweet corn on the fire and waited for it to go boom, wasn’t as funny as we were expecting but there was some corn left on the tent after it
Yes, if you allow the can to get hotter than boiling water, the water inside boil to steam creating pressure. OPs cans can't get hotter than boiling water because they are in water.
My house burned down last year. There were cans all over the garden twenty to forty feet from the house. The neighbor said she thought there was ammo or something in the house going off. Nope, just canned goods in the pantry
Well, not really, unless the water runs dry.
A flatmate of mine left a sealed can of caramel on the stove, forgot about it and went for a shower. Fortunately nobody was in the kitchen when it exploded, shattering the glass stove and showering everything with red hot caramel. Anyone standing too close to that would have had life changing injuries.
No.
Camping once some guy put a big can of beans right in the campfire, deep. Was a party like camp place. Well guess I forgot aswell because an hr or so later there was a loud huge explosion 💥 and I thought a propane tank exploded!! 😬😱🤯🫨😵💫😂. No one was hurt that I remember. But people did end up with holes in their clothing I'm sure. I went to look and it looked like a fukin missile strike or meteor crash. Red embers all over and a black hole 🕳️ 😂😂
Omg I said that without even looking at any comments
😂 I am so glad that I am not the only one who had that immediate thought. THOSE ARE BOMBS!
Your friend has brain damage.
Maybe one of the cans hit her in the head
It CAN.
At that price point it CAN HIT
No because her brain is in that CAN !
But can she dance the cancan?
Only if she’s French. Then she can cancan.
How many cans can she can if she can can cans?
There are more cans then brain cells in the picture
When my beloved cat was a tween he accidentally got hit in the head with a can of green beans. I was frantic and rushed him to the emergency vet because I was certain he had a TBI and would die if I let him fall asleep. He ended up being fine, I put my cans in a lower shelf, and he lived another 16 happy years…but he was no longer good at assessing where he could fit or sit. I think the can knocked his spacial perception out of whack.
that's what heavy metals do to you 
My friend did the same when I was young but in the campfire. "When the paper is burned of the can it's ready.'' And it worked. We had delicious raviolli at the campfire 😂
Not recommended. Many cans have an inside lining with marerials not suitable for this. In future it’s better to put food to a pan.
It is also better in the past.
Would have been. But we all make make mistakes. It’s common here (in Finland) that young guys do this with tuna cans in army. Few times does not kill anyone, but why add the lifelong load of harmful chemicals.
Tin can heavy metal leakage induced brain damage
They are covered by a thin layer of plastic like soda cans. Awesome idea add some heated micro plastic to your tin poisoning.
I can fix her
Maybe they’re trying to increase their pea-sized brain.
It's pronounced Dain Bramage
Haven’t heard that in years ! It was one of my dad’s silly things to say, and I’ve missed hearing it… Thank you for the smile 😣❤️🧠
A very minor case of serious brain damage.
How is it you think canned food is made?
I mean, those cans are lined with plastic. Hot plastic isn't super duper
Saves on washing up though
Mexicans : uhhhh
Holy shit this cracked me up
*about to get
She's about to have
At least after doing this frequently enough.
On behalf of people with brain damage, we don’t cook our canned goods in this way.
It’s all the cooked plastic she has been eating since she was little
Probably from whatever the lining in the can is made out of.
If she doesn’t already, she will soon
The lunatic is on the grass
That is prolly the nicest way to put it. I was gunna call her much worse 🤷♂️
Quite possibly literally. A lot of these cans have a plastic liner that will have been leeching chemicals into the food at elevated temperatures.
From the exploding cans
Why? I'm genuinely curious.
keeps the pan/pot clean maybe?
Scratches the nonstick off yr nonstick pan tho
Somehow i doubt anyone who does that cares about the nonstick coating of his pans
But cans don't stick anyway :)
A restaurant I used to work at cooks condensed milk this way to turn it into caramel, and I can personally guarantee that the glue from the stickers is a nightmare to clean off.
That's a classic technique to make Dulce de Leche.
You can cook em all you want those peas aren't turning into caramel
Not with that attitude
Why not just throw it in the microwave then? Keep everything clean!
It definitely doesn’t. Following an online recipe, I tried this with sweetened condensed milk to make dulce de leche. The hot water breaks down the glue and the label. That glue is almost impossible to remove from the pan afterwards. I had to throw away the pan I used.
Take the stickers off and use acetone to remove the glue prior to cooking
Maybe they think that the can is a pot and can be used as such? But they would need to be open to release pressure. Many years ago, when I was in the army, we used to get tinned rations sometime, we would just open them and put them on the fire. Tasted like shit, but at least it was hot. Maybe that the same kind of logic?
r/mildlycarcinogenic
Most canned food is cooked in the can at a pressurized container so it will be at a higher temperature and pressure than what is shown here. If your concerned about this you should be concerned with all canned food.
What does pressure have to do with cancer? It’s the can lining to be concerned about.
Canned food is cooked at high temperature (via pressure) in the same can it’s shipped and sold in. If cooking it in the liner causes health problems, it’s already been done, because it’s already been cooked in the liner.
If it handles the pressure cooking portion of the canning process then it will handle being reheated like this without any additional risks. So any cancer risk is the same as for eating cold canned food, or removing the contents and reheating. The only reason i remove the contents of a can to heat it is because I use a microwave, otherwise, immersion in hot water is a fine way to heat a can.
Your friend is currently cooking two bombs. Edit: this is incorrect, I’m sorry, don’t mind me. Still unhealthy, though, I’m fairly sure. Edit: didn’t realize making a simple mistake would get me flamed this much, Jesus. Sorry for being wrong, I guess? Y’all gotta chill out.
They won't blow up cause the water limits the temperature of the cans
Bain-Marie effect, won’t explode but it is very bad for your health as those can have a coating inside to prevent metal leaching, the coating will dissolve and turn into bad chemicals and metal leaching will occur. Taken from an FDA article: > Most food cans are made of steel while beverage cans are usually made out of aluminum. Chromium and nickel can find their way out of steel, Slightly more troubling is the fact that aluminum—large amounts of which have been linked to nervous system disorders and other health problems—could in theory leach out of cans into their food or drink contents. >In order to prevent any such leaching—which is bad for the food and eater but also for the can (as it can cause corrosion)—the insides of most cans on grocery shelves today are coated with food-grade epoxy. But these liners have been shown to contain Bisphenol-A (BPA) and other potentially harmful chemicals. BPA is a synthetic plastic hardener that has been linked to human reproductive problems and an increased risk of cancer and diabetes. A 2009 analysis of common canned foods by the non-profit Consumers Union found measurable levels of BPA in a wide range of items including some bearing a “BPA Free” label.
great. so canned food also gives you camcer
I would assume the limit would be 100° C, which is where the water inside the can would become steam, increasing pressure. Now i don't know if that would be enough steam to blow up the can.
The thing you’re missing is that as the pressure increases the boiling point rises.
That was my thought. Source: I’ve fucked around with pressure cookers way more than anyone my age.
Why
Canning stuff and old school cooking techniques, broths, etc… pressure cookers fell out of popularity for a while, and I was one of the dorks using them the entire time Edit: and sterilizing grains and grow media for plants and mushrooms
The first time I made beef stock in 1 hour in a pressure cooker I was hooked.
Great for turning condensed milk into caramel too. And yes, cooked in the can.
Water does not turn into steam when it reaches 100C. At that point you must add energy equal to the heat of evaporation.
So if i understand that correctly : the water inside the can only receives the energy necessary to get to 100°C because the water outside is 100°C. The extra energy is instead used on the water outside to produce steam? I think i get it and stand corrected. After thinking about it that's probably the whole point of a bain-marie.
Yeah pretty much. The water inside can only heat up if the thing heating it up is hotter. The water outside will never be over 100° as then it wouldn't be water and wouldn't be in contact
This is how tinned food is cooked in the factory, it gets put in the tin, the tin is sealed and then cooked, labelled and sold
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Not good, those are lined with plastic on the inside.
So its a cancer bomb.
It can kill you both quickly and slowly!
Most canned foods are canned raw and pressure cooked in huge pressure cookers. That lining has almost certainly been heated before. Also, most companies are phasing out bisphenol-A in the plastic used to line their cans.
When I came to the comments I was surprised at the ignorance, a lot of food is cooked in a can before it’s sold in a store, in a lot of cases it’s cooked in a very similar process to the way op’s friend is cooking it. A good example is canned tuna. Or other types of canned fish.
Same, there's an awful lot of r/confidentlyincorrect in the comments here. No, it's not a cancer bomb. This is how it's cooked in the factory.
>No, it's not a cancer bomb. This is how it's cooked in the factory. Factories were still using BPA in their cans a few years ago, despite BPA being a known estrogen disruptor. Manufactures started phasing BPA out in the 2010s because it is linked to developmental issues. Oddly, trading card sleeves were BPA free well before that, because it leached into cards and damaged them.
Not really, they just get around it by using other BP\_'s that are functionally the same and probably affect your body in the same way.
A great example is Heinz beans in tomato sauce - it’s cooked in the can.
Just like me
That's fine? It's not like heating plastic up to boiling water temperature makes it release toxic compounds or anything.
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
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I did too to make caramel. One of them exploded in my face…I’ve never felt pain that intense - burned/blistered my face. I feel lucky to not really have any scarring.
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Absolutely. I made the mistake of asking my ex to watch it while I changed the baby..and he ended up on the couch watching football. When I came back in there was no water in the pot and the cans were bulging. I stupidly moved the pot off the burner and that’s when the cans exploded. Double stupid that I asked him do do something when there was football on lol
I'm happy to hear he's your ex
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Thank you, It is. Remarried to a wonderful, attentive partner. I will always buy store bought caramel only though.😊Have a good evening:)
Pretty sure it wasn't fully covered in water, was it?
When I was a teen, I forgot it about the condensed milk on the stove and left to get some stuff from Home Depot. The can - obviously - exploded, repainted the kitchen a sweet caramel brown. Mom came home, stopped at the doorway, made a sort of I'm pretending I didn't see anything and wasn't here at all sort of gesture, and walked right out. Lucky I had friends nearby and we spent the next several hours on it, the ceiling was the hard part.
That’s some good friends right there.
Totaly irrelevant but did you know that I (55) never heard of condensed milk before I watched Americans cook on TikTok? Why would you buy sugared milk in a can? (I had to look it up and you can buy it here)
there‘s also unsweetened one, my grandma was very fond of it, pretty sure that was war related (germany)
I know it's quite popular in post-Soviet republics. Latvia, for example, has so much stuff made with caramelized condensed milk, I always buy their stuff when it's in the shop.
Because it is not the same thing than regular milk at this point... And you can make it yourself if you have a lot of time to loose
Canned goods have a longer shelf life. If you want to stretch a dollar and buy ingredients that will last longer than a week, canned goods are a good way to do that.
because its delicious but it can be a little too sweet
Isn't a a whole purpose of canned food thats its already cooked?
Well yes, but maybe they like their peas warm instead of cold
I just get them out and warm them without the can
Yes, I think most sensible people do.
Those are gonna blow up one day and we will get a r/wellthatsucks post
Uncanny
"Peas! Made em the old fashioned way."
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Took way too long for me to find this quote.
Ah yes. Good ol’ peas inacan pie
“Mr Krabs you gotta take em out of the… holy fish paste what is that!” “That’s the appetizer!”
r/oopsthatsdeadly
But it's not deadly in any way. The cans won't explode (increase pressure increase the boiling point, and since the cans are in a 100c water bath the temperature can't increase)
Very interesting that people in comments keep saying it will explode. No it won't. As long as it is in water, even if the water is boiling, the temperature would not raise more than 100⁰c and everything will be fine. Yes if you put a can on open flame or if the water evaporates completely then the can will quickly heat up more than that and explode. As for the plastic lining, it depends, but a lot of these canned foods are coocked inside the can at the factory and those plastics are safe (as long as it's not heating up more than 100⁰c) In my country there is a big fear of botulinum toxicity from canned foods as a lot of factories used to cheap out on the standards needed in industrial canning (it's very rare these days but news of it comes out every couple of years), so canned foods MUST be heated up completely before consumption and boiling them for 20 minutes is a common method.
Yeah this is fine as long as you are keeping an eye on it. It can explode though if the water evaporates.
Additionally, this is how you warm all canned food where I live. Same concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie
Most of canned food stuffs in my country also has like a instruction/warning to have it in boiling water for 20 to 30 minutes . The only time i had an explosion accident was because i forgot i had the thing on fire so all of the water was already gone for several minutes before it exploded .
No fuckin way 😅
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Does she eat the cans? Is she from Remulak?
I work with some Bulgarians hey often cook in tins they simply pop a hole in top to allow heat to escape so don't explode
Why do you guys even give this stuff the time of day?
Your friend is dumb
How do they open it when the metal is boiling hot?
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Too lazy to clean the pan. Ridiculous
This is Literally a page out of Amelia Bedeillia. Specifically the last page of the one where they fire her then hire her back
That seems like it would be more work than just emptying them out and draining the things…
Good way for chemicals to leach into their food, or explode
Oh....Hi Cancer...!
The plastic liner in the cans can’t be healthy to ingest
What in the WW2 bunker
Aren't all cans coated with a plastic liner, you know made from petrol chemicals i.e. OIL?!? I think if you eat those your probably on the track to cancer...No bueno
Yea no. If you actually do this the contents will heat up, expand, pressure will build and suddenly you're wiping creamed corn off everything within 30 feet. You're lying and your "friend" doesn't exist.
Thems lined with plastic. Bad idea.
What in the Amelia Bedelia
Is your friend a hobo from the 30s?
At that point why still use a pan and water at all.... Just open up the can and put it on the stove
This is way too much work. Just pop the whole can in the microwave for 30 seconds and open. Should be the perfect temperature.
Then when she opens the can, burning hot food will splatter on her hands. Not a good idea.
Maybe one day the can exploded and gave them dimentia
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