things that are wrong in tins
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Riff
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Mrs Miggins said:
You can indeed. We took some to Glastonbury a few years ago. It gave one of my mates real trouble. He was pointing at the tin and shouting, "That is SO WRONG!"
Here's a tip for using somenthing in a tin that is good. If you are making some pasta and want creamy mushroom sauce, just cheat a bit and use tinned mushroom soup instead - much less hassle.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I do this, and I also used tinned asparagus soup on rice and vegetables as a very tasty risotto type thingRiff said:
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Have you ever tried cooking chestnuts from scratch? I don't mean roasting them, when all the faff of shelling them etc is part of the fun, I mean when you want to make chestnut stuffing or something. If not, try it, then come back and tell me they're stupid.Spymaster said:
As for Fray Bentos pies, I vaguely remember looking at the fat content of them once and thinking it wasn't actually that bad.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Well! I'll be looting all you tin-haters' houses come the nuclear winter when all the food has spoiled yet me and my fifteen thousand tins of omelette and beans survive
I just wish Fray Bentos would sort themselves out and make a vegan pie - it's the 21st century for crying out loud! Even Pukka managed to make a vegan pie - and then I will be a happy man.
Edited to add that this was my 3,000th post, and I must say, it's a very nice one at that.
I just wish Fray Bentos would sort themselves out and make a vegan pie - it's the 21st century for crying out loud! Even Pukka managed to make a vegan pie - and then I will be a happy man.
Edited to add that this was my 3,000th post, and I must say, it's a very nice one at that.
lemontop
hungry luma
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Wow that's fantastic. Did they do a whole range of Geordie footballer based food?
My landlord left a tin of mackerel in my food cupboard. I keep picking it up and wondering what to do with it. Apparently it was produced in 2004 and lasts till 2008. 4 years! What sort of a fish can last for that long?
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I think they just make up the best before dates on tins because I'm sure I've had a tin from a christmas hamper at least two years after it had "gone off" and it was fine!lemontop said:
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
completely agree. Tinned sardines/pilchards tooPingu said:
gross. Oh and tuna in oil in tins... why would anyone need to have their tuna in a good dolloping of grease??? I cant believe people buy that shite, thats wrongnessOh and meatballs, those capbells things which are made of mechanically recovered chicken and pork * Barf*
I did the bedsit thing for several years and some of it was just gross
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Tinned food is to stock up on when there is imminent danger of war or nuclear holocaust. The canning process will make anything last just about forever. Those best before tags are just incase. Long as its not dented or bowed, its edible.
If there is an alternative tins are to be left on the shelf.
If there is an alternative tins are to be left on the shelf.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I just bought some bogof tuna and salmon in Tesco which had 2010 as a best before:.Sunray said:
I was thinking today as I munched my tinned sardines about why people think so ill of canned stuff, but it's simply a very rational solution - and some canned products end up being good in their own way :- canned tomatoes, for example - OK so when I'm organised I can grow myself a greenhouse full of tomatoes of a quality you couldn't dream of finding in the shops, if I was even more organised I would spend a few days every year bottling tomatoes. Until then, canned tomatoes are brilliant, and good enough for Nigella ... like frozen peas.
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northernhord
Active Member
lynne8 said:I always have loads of canned tomatoes, tomato paste and canned mushrooms soup, canned peas even, I like my pantry of canned goods, makes me happy!!
I always keep the above cans that youve mentioned, its your baseline for making other meals.
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
Why do so many people like those those Fray Bento pies? - they taste like (the smell of) tinned dog food.
Spam, on the other hand, smells and tastes exactly as tinned spam should.
I love tinned salmon, mackerel, sardines, skippers (not sure what they are but they are lovely and smoky) in an 'instant protein' kind of way when you almost can't be bothered to eat let alone cook.
I find tinned vegetables quite disturbing, apart from tomatoes, sweetcorn (& pulses if they are a veg). I think its because they just can't possibly have any nutritional value, whereas at least tinned fish still contains protein & oils.
I don't think it makes sense to compare tinned & fresh fish, they're just too completely different foodstuffs - as different from each other as tinned spaghetti and fresh pasta. They're both delicious in their own way, but you'd hardly expect to substitute one for the other in a recipe, for instance.
Spam, on the other hand, smells and tastes exactly as tinned spam should.
I love tinned salmon, mackerel, sardines, skippers (not sure what they are but they are lovely and smoky) in an 'instant protein' kind of way when you almost can't be bothered to eat let alone cook.
I find tinned vegetables quite disturbing, apart from tomatoes, sweetcorn (& pulses if they are a veg). I think its because they just can't possibly have any nutritional value, whereas at least tinned fish still contains protein & oils.
I don't think it makes sense to compare tinned & fresh fish, they're just too completely different foodstuffs - as different from each other as tinned spaghetti and fresh pasta. They're both delicious in their own way, but you'd hardly expect to substitute one for the other in a recipe, for instance.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I'm guessing you mean "kippers", which are just smoked herrings, if I remember correctlyMs Ordinary said:
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
Please let it not be true
northernhord
Active Member
Louloubelle said:
Please let it not be true
That has to be the most WRONG thing ever crammed into a tin, you should get a prize for finding this gruesome item
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
northernhoard said:That has to be the most WRONG thing ever crammed into a tin, you should get a prize for finding this gruesome item
This (looks like tinned rat to me) has to come a close second
northernhord
Active Member
Louloubelle said:This (looks like tinned rat to me) has to come a close second
where the fuck you finding these ace picks from, looks like something from an Alabama cornershop
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