Storage tinned stuff

[movan]

Advice please. Always keep good supply of tinned stuff in a cupboard for emergencies in case cannot get to shops.

This last couple of months it has been a Godsend. .... However, getting bit concerned as most tins say store in cool, dry place and in the motorhome it gets sweltering when the sun's out. I don't want to food poison little un.

How do the rest of you store, for example, tins of tuna? Will these be safe to use? Would be annoyed to have to throw so much stuff away but looks like might have to.

 

[Kirsten]

Morning Movan nice to see you back! If the tins are not rusted or bulging( ie air in them from somewhere has made contents go bad ) they will be fine . Xxx

 

[Richard n Ann]

They last better if not dented too. Dents crack the internal coating and after years that makes the contents taste metallic. If not dented the food should last 100 years

 

[David and Sally]

They last better if not dented too. Dents crack the internal coating and after years that makes the contents taste metallic. If not dented the food should last 100 years

I always drink any dented beer cans within a week just to be sure

 

[Grianan]

Agree with Kirsten in that if product goes off it will ‘blow’ the can. If it was on the turn you should also smell/taste it.

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[jollyrodger]

Tuna?
No!
Try this Joy movan



Should go down well at a fun meet

 

[movan]

Thank you all most grateful.

jollyrodger I would do as well at that challenge as I do on the quizzes?!!

 

[Northern Boy]

If ever in doubt I put food in a bowl and offer to our cats, if they sniff and turn away it goes into the compost. If they eat the food (tinned or whatever) then its fine. And as said earlier they have dragged up tins from the sea bed that are years old and the content was fine.

 

[phase3begins]

Some of our stores had a distinct started to be cooked look and smell.

 

[royandsharont]

We always stored ours under the side dinette seating and even in high Spanish temperatures we found it to be quite cold down there next to the single wooden floor

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[Richard n Ann]

Don't think the storage temperature matters. We use low temperature to slow down the growth of microorganisms but there aren't any in tins so no need.

 

[Janine]

I know we used to have a resident food expert (but can't remember who it is)

He would always say that tinned food was good for years past its use-by date.

I do wonder whether the new ring-pull cans are as safe.

 

[Janine]

Just found this on the net.

It seems to answer both of our questions

 

[Richard n Ann]

I had some pilchards in the cupboard for years past the sell by date. Eventually the seam on the can went and a kind of dry black fishy smelling substance came out. Not loads of it but it was the smell that alerted me

 

[Brains]

We were still eating 1973 tinned Pâté in the 2010's
40+ years old, and still perfectly good

It had been stored at a fairly constant temperature for the last half century.

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[Dramfineday]

Hahaha my old FiL told me that following Dunkirk he helped unpack a shipment of tins of Corned Beef from Canada, marked 1917. It was good stuff apparently.

A year later he was in India and on opening a tin of corned beef he could almost pour it out due to the heat. It was still edible (in a hash).