Heating food in the can on a fire

[johnnytheboy]

I follow allot of Swedish outdoorsy people on Instagram and notice that they all cook their hotdogs usually "Bullens Pilsner Korv" direct on a fire. I had always been told that wasn't a wise idea as cans are plastic laminated inside.

I just wondered if these cans weren't lined or if the Swedish just have a blatant disregard for the carsonogenic effects that put me off doing such a thing!

The reason Im asking is I'd quite like to do it as well

 

[Adze]

disregard for the carsonogenic effects

Errmm... the stress of thinking about it is highly likely to be a greater cancer risk than heating up a plastic lined tin to the boiling point of mildly salty water.

Tinned stuff usually has a huge shelf life, frequently many months if not years. A few minutes heating some hotdogs from storage temperature (let's say 20 degrees C in the shop and subsequently at home) to boiling point isn't going to dramatically increase the levels of any toxins in the liquid they're in, let alone in the 'sausages'. Fair do, boil it dry and burn the plastic, if there is any (zinc would probably be worse, particularly if you breathed the fumes) and you're asking for more trouble... easy answer there would be "Don't!"

 

[Janne]

We Swedes are realists.
We know that the risk associated with ingesting traces of Polymers by eating Bullens is negligible.
( Also, as our schools are generally better than the UK state schools, so we know that if heated properly / with skill, the inside of the can does not get much hotter than just above 100 degrees Celsius and the apolymers chosen as a liner are stable at much higher temperatures than that)
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[johnnythefox]

you haven't lived until you've tasted compo sausages out of a tin [I love the smell of hexamine in the morning].

 

[santaman2000]

I've heated foods in the tins over a campfire more times than I can remember (although not sausages) The only real danger is leaving them on the fire too long and the can exploding (not a problem if you pierce the top first)

 

[Janne]

I miss Bullens.
Use to take a can with me while day fishing. Had them usually cold. Delicious, no other canned sausage / frank has the same taste.

 

[Bishop]

Not a big fan of hot-dogs but will often have baked beans stewing in the tin on the corner of the BBQ. The water content keeps the plastic coating from reaching its melting point.

 

[santaman2000]

I love real hot dogs; not so much with canned ones though.

 

[johnnythefox]

With compo we where taught to boil cans [lids removed] in water in our mess tins.
this saved cleaning, fuel and time as the water was then used to make your tea

 

[Tonyuk]

Just heat them in boiling water. Hit the side so it has a fair dent in it then put it in the water, the dent will come out as it heats. When the dents gone open the can (Facing away from you)

Works for most canned stuff.

Tonyuk

 

[sandbag47]

you haven't lived until you've tasted compo sausages out of a tin [I love the smell of hexamine in the morning].

I hear you brother

 

[rik_uk3]

We Swedes are realists.
We know that the risk associated with ingesting traces of Polymers by eating Bullens is negligible.
( Also, as our schools are generally better than the UK state schools, so we know that if heated properly / with skill, the inside of the can does not get much hotter than just above 100 degrees Celsius and the apolymers chosen as a liner are stable at much higher temperatures than that)
.

http://www.economist.com/news/inter...-hard-eminently-possible-what-world-can-learn yet Sweden is lagging behind UK schools.

Just heat the can gently and you'll be fine

 

[rik_uk3]

 

[Big G]

Not a fan of the tinned hot dogs!

Used to have em for tea, coming in from school, in a bread roll with a serving of boiled onions

 

[dave89]

I've done it for years, never really thought about it just take the paper off put a hole in them and aways you go. Beans and sausages with bacon on top. Beats cauliflower rice

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[santaman2000]

http://www.economist.com/news/inter...-hard-eminently-possible-what-world-can-learn yet Sweden is lagging behind UK schools......

Wouldn't it be more accurate to test after they'd finished school rather than when they're only just a year into it though? Age 15 is only the 10th grade here (the sophmore year of high school) If you have a late birthday (one that's after the start of the school year) then you'd only be in the 9th grade at 15 (the freshman year)

 

[Janne]

Physics: if you immerse a can in water and boil it, the content will only reach 100 degrees Celsius. Not much of a pressure increase inside, only what the expantion causes.
That is in fact how canned food is made.

Even if opened and heated gently beside the fire, the inside will not go much above 100 C.

It will though if you allow too much heat on the unopened can, as the pressure and boiling point increases.

You can get realky badly scalded if the can explodes.


I hope you guys have tried to boil water in a plastic bag ( turned inside out so the seam is inside)
Or even better, boiled water in a condom?
Same principle.

 

[Jaeger]

We boil Swedes with carrot and onion.

Sorry, that should read swedes.

 

[Leshy]

We boil Swedes with carrot and onion.

Sorry, that should read swedes.

Haha , I like the swedes but I couldn't eat a whole one 😁

The norgies are not too bad either...
No onions..😁

 

[santaman2000]

I follow allot of Swedish outdoorsy people on Instagram and notice that they all cook their hotdogs usually "Bullens Pilsner Korv" direct on a fire......

Physics: if you immerse a can in water and boil it, the content will only reach 100 degrees Celsius....

I could be wrong, but I thought the use of the phrase, "direct on the fire" precludes immersing it. When the OP said "direct" I took it to mean simply placing the can into the fire?