Storing food in tins

Shippams bloater paste ?

I used to work in Chichester and the day they boiled up the fish stunk out the whole city. Factory is now gentrified and converted to expensive shops and even more expensive apartments.

Um, that?s just the ?Heineken effect?. You?ll get that with any tinned piss. ;-)

Tim

In the old days we used to keep opened tins in the fridge. I think you could even buy a plastic lid to fit on the tin. Now we are told to transfer the contents to another container.

Has the construction of tins changed, or is this another example of excess caution? I have never known a tin to start rusting in the timescale involved and even if it did, the rust would be at the top not were the food is.

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In the old days there were no fridges LOL

Shippams, yes, but not usually bloater.

I had Aldi chicken paste on my sandwiches the other day; it's another Aldi own-brand which is well below what I'd expect in quality. Haven't had Shippams for years.

Owain

Its not so much the ringpull as being the problem as the reaction force of the other hand holding the rim of the tin down ,with fingers only a few mm away from a very sharpedge, all ok if no oil around and the can does not slip out of tour grip and then a horrible slicing action of that edge

Then you have a lot to learn about pets.

That varies. Cans of tomatoes are often painted white.

It wouldn?t be allowed if it wasn?t safe.

So transfer it, unless you know that the contents will

That?s mad.

And you didn't care how squashed it was. ;-)

And the warm cordial to wash it down.

It was a joke that became fond memory for our daughter how 'Granny' used to be able to pull some sort of food and a drink (often a breakfast bar of some sort and a warm Capri-Sun) out of her handbag no matter where they were. ;-)

No thought to question the food or what sort of warm / squashed state it was in as she knew it was that or nothing.

I can remember sister and I being left in the car with a bag of crisps and a bottle of cola each while Mum and Dad had a quick drink in the pub on our way home from boating or somesuch.

And it was a real treat. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

The best containers are glass. Trivially buyable.

Back then 60s when we didnt have best befores etc the test was if the the unopened top of a can had `blown` (buldging) then the food had reacted with the metal, producing gas and was therefore off. back then we were not so clinical with cooked/uncooked meats blocks of cheese, no plastic gloves etc and never heard of food poisoning.

Pringles.

And lived to tell the tale. No need then of "petting zoos" and the like to offset ultra-sterile modern living conditions. Hormesis:- a little of what does you harm, does you good.

Well in fact they didn't call it food poisoning then, they called it diarrhoea. Or cholera. Or gastric flu. And everyone had it once or twice a month. Until refrigerators turned up. And babies died of it.

If you visit places like Mexico or Africa it's the same. You will get the squits. Badly. Again and again.

And babies die of it over there all the time, in droves. Infant diarrhoea. Biggest killer outside in et real world.

Herd immunity my arse.

There are people who can remember what it was like before vaccines and antibiotics and chlorinated water and refrigerators, and there are people who think it was wonderful.

The first thing a Soweto mum buys when she steals electricity from a nearby pole, is a refrigerator. (The second is a TV)

I still follow that approach with yoghurt. I always check the lid first..

And with hundreds of years usage under their belts.

We've moved towards using kilner jars for a lot of stuff - getting rid of the crappy plastic containers which simply don't last.

The design of the sealing mechanism on kilner jars - not wearing out any flimsy plastic seams and with replaceable seals - is a work of genius.

Oh no! Tea, either Thermos or if we were really lucky, waiting for the kettle to boil on the Camping Gaz mini burner.

Owain

Back then 60s when we didnt have best befores etc the test was if the the unopened top of a can had `blown` (buldging) then the food had reacted with the metal, producing gas and was therefore off. back then we were not so clinical with cooked/uncooked meats blocks of cheese, no plastic gloves etc and never heard of food poisoning.

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it was indeed!

I just made up a clip to go over the rim of the end of sardine cans, ringpull end. Stainless steel strip , ex-rear blanking/closure for desktop pc expansion card slots. Hammered over a return at one end, to locate over the can rim and then a bend to be able to hold down the can onto a table surface, with fingers well away from any of the sharp edges. I'll give it a test drive this evening.

We had no fridge, just a larder with, nominally, a wire grid over the (small) outside window to keep insects out. Of course it didn't and for some reason the idea of covering food didn't occur to people. As a result, I have no recollection of getting any of the usual childhood illnesses (e.g. measles), but I do recall during the first 10 years of life a regular occurrence of vomitting. Probably due to very poor food hygiene.