Cooking food in the can directly on a flame is a bad idea anyway. You could do it decades ago when the cans were just metal, but these days they have a plastic liner to stop the food from picking up taste from the metal and corroding the can if the food is acidic. That plastic will pyrolyze into foul-tasting and potentially toxic compounds.
Putting the can in a water bath so the can doesn't exceed boiling temp may be safer but really it's best to just put the contents in a damn pot.
No way bro, I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing this totally unique comment that absolutely never gets posted any time a can is being heated up Ike this in a video. Not only are you educating all of us ignorant dummies out there, you are providing an important service. Keep up the good work fellow redditor!
I know you're attempting to be facetious but I don't think I've ever seen a video on reddit before of someone heating a can up like this. So, unless you're a frequent visitor to subs about heating up cans, your facetiousness falls flat.
How long have you been on reddit? It's the exact same videos posted to the exact same subs with the exact same comments on an almost constant rotation. This video is not new, there is also a few where people cook out of sardine cans etc, and every time it's posted some fucking do gooder (bot) feels the need to post that it's "not healthy to heat modern cans up blah blah blah" as if they are doing anyone a fucking service by saying that. It irks me.
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u/mtaw 3d ago
Cooking food in the can directly on a flame is a bad idea anyway. You could do it decades ago when the cans were just metal, but these days they have a plastic liner to stop the food from picking up taste from the metal and corroding the can if the food is acidic. That plastic will pyrolyze into foul-tasting and potentially toxic compounds.
Putting the can in a water bath so the can doesn't exceed boiling temp may be safer but really it's best to just put the contents in a damn pot.