100% cooking food in the cans leaches metals into the food
Edit: you can live a long and happy life ingesting small amounts of metal. I use a cast iron, I get it. Just saying, I would rather eat nano amounts of iron than tin. Based on my experience soldering, Tin has an apx. 450°F melting point. I also thought agitated particles move more than relatively static ones. Last I checked water will evaporate before that. That doesn't mean tin won't be agitated at 212°F and release particles.
Edit 2: afterthought; Would love for a chemist to poke holes in this! No pun intended
Edit 3: plastic liners depend on the product, manufacturer, and nation of origin. As is tin coating. For example, my Progresso soup that I ate yesterday had a plastic lining, but my tomato can from Tues was tin lined. Also I assume more unregulated things since a lot of American companies are largely self regulating about pollutants (I'm looking at you, DuPont, Proctor & God), and I can't imagine for example that Pakistan is a stringent about lead content as Germany is. I learned way too much about the global canning industry this morning.
Tins or aluminium doesn't matter anyway. The inside of the can is lined with a thin plastic liner to prevent the metals from leaching into the food and makes the food taste metallic.
I don’t like tuna helper, but when I was a kid we used to have this amalgamation of kraft mac-n-cheese with tuna and sweet peas that I kind of miss eating. 😂
Nowhere on the tuna helper instructions does it say to MICROWAVE THE CAN OF TUNA. I really have to give it to Reddit for this one. Never in my life have I even ever heard of someone microwaving a can of anything.
Never had tuna melts?
But you don’t heat it in the fucking can.
You mix it up with mayo/onions/hot peppers/celery/ lemon pepper/zatar and garlic and put it on a bagel topped with cheese first.
OP is a psycho
People who are currently dissatisfied with the amount of plastics they consume.
All cans are lined with plastic to avoid rust. It is toxic and definitely leaches when heated.
It's not to avoid rust, it's to avoid ptomaine poisoning and extend shelf life. There use to be a lot of ptomaine (pronounced tomaine) poisoning years ago when people would open the big cans of pineapple juice and leave them in the refrigerator instead of transferring to a new container.
I knew a guy that did this. He owned 1 fork and 1 spoon and no dishes. He would open a can of ravioli or chili or whatever. Heat it on his hot plate and eat it out of the can. Wasn't even a poverty thing, dude made bank.
Right, when opened the bare metal (unlined) portion of the can is then in direct contact with the portion of the can that is covered in plastic. The rust can transfer underneath once opened. Being exposed to significantly more oxygen and moisture accelerates this process.
Nah it’s probably fine, especially since you have those lids.
I imagined the commenter just sticking a cracked can of beans or something in the fridge, which even then would probably be fine, just not ideal
Look up the tuna episode on my strange addiction. Guy opens cans of tuna and leaves them around the house for the smell. Rubs the juice on his neck. Carries a can in his pocket. Wild 😂
I once made Ramen noodles and forgot to put the water in it. I was microwaving it, and it completely burnt and made the microwave and the whole house stink.
Sure, an easy mistake assuming you are talking about a cup or bowl that is already made to be heated and just add water first. You wouldn’t just toss a regular package of ramen, sealed and unopened, in the microwave and say fuck it, which is essentially what this dude just did.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but for the life of me, I'm drawing a blank here. You've never exactly been on the right side of a bell curve, have you?
This whole comment section is everyone trying to think of a way to bail him out, getting frustrated cause it still makes no sense and just questioning more 😂
How do you forget to open something that you need to put into a bowl or pot in ORDER to heat it?
Like.... you cant pour the shit into the pot if you dont open it ....
Maybe for a tuna melt but you would still have to open the can and mix in mayonnaise or something. Nothing about this makes sense to me. Unless it just the greatest troll post ever.
Oh there’s a market. A whole restaurant near me.
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Only they’re talking about tuna steaks, not hot canned tuna 😂🤮
I’ve known him for close to 30 years. He’s a little different, but even for him this shit was weird. He was like you don’t drink the juice? NO PSYCHO, NOBODY DOES. Fucking tuna juice 😂🤮
He’s just a little off lol. Good guy, but the same
IQ as a bag of hair.
When he saw me eating an egg salad sandwich, he was like that looks so good, I love those, where’d you get it? I said I made it. He was like how? When I told him, that shit was seriously mind blowing and life changing for him.
He was 40 years old and had no idea that a basic egg salad was just hard boiled eggs, mayo, salt and pepper.
He isn’t mentally handicapped or autistic or anything, he was just raised by his mom who is a complete moron and he lived an extremely sheltered life. Homeschooled by a woman who never went to school after she was 10 years old.
Aren’t these sorts of cans lined with a layer of plastic? Plastic that’s not meant to be heated because it breaks down into micro-plastics that you’re now eating?
This whole post and OP’s reasonings is just completely bizarre. I’m in awe at how ridiculous OPs thinking is. Buying canned tuna in oil instead of water(because OP likes the taste of the oil better but pours it out anyways), making it cold in the fridge so the oil solidifies, then instead of emptying the can into a pot or bowl to heat up, throws the can on the stove top creating a tuna bomb? But OP likes cold tuna. The amount of thought that went into doing something so stupid is nuts. It’s like just one dumb thing right after another.
When I was younger my ex-girlfriend's roommate killed himself in his room while we were asleep. We didn't hear a thing. She went to ask him something and found his brains on his ceiling and the remnants of his head everywhere else. Whenever I see something like this it reminds me of that. And how hard it was to clean the room up. It was her parents rental property and we had to do it.
OP,
I don’t know what the fuck is going on in this post but the comments have me dying laughing. After being a moody mess today I much appreciate the laughter.
Good luck cleaning this disaster up.
I don't eat seafood, but among canned/tinned fish connoisseurs, oil packed fish tends to be better tasting and higher quality. I watched a whole Epicurious video on it during the pandemic. Gross shit.
I don’t think OP is a connoisseur, of anything probably, but certainly not canned fish. Tuna in oil is fine though, imo. But if you’re gonna be a lunatic and refrigerate, probably get the water one.
Yeah, I know now. Someone sent me a link to the comment. I actually found it myself, but there's only one reply to it, and it isn't OP. But, in the link, there were tons of replies, and OP's was the first.
Hey you shouldn't be cooking in cans period because nowadays most cans have a lining that isn't safe for cooking
If you absolutely must-- poke one hole in the top to avoid making a pipe bomb
Same thing happened when I microwaved a whole egg as a kid. I thought it would be a "hard-boil hack" or something. Took it out, tapped the shell with a spoon and.... BOOM 💥
I had egg on my face. Literally *and* figuratively. It burned like a motherfucker and smelled like sulfur. Luckily, I didn't do any real damage (ego took a major hit tho).
So yeah..... don't microwave whole eggs.
I'm seeing a lot of the same question, but OP isn't answering.
OP WHY ARE YOU HEATING THE TUNA WHILE IT'S IN THE CAN!?!
At least transfer it to a pot of pan first. Cans have plastic liners in them as well as whatever the lid's sealer is made of. Both are almost certainly not safe to heat up and eat.
Man don't take this the wrong way but if you just put a can of tuna on the stove and turned it on you should really go to YouTube and type in "cooking" and just watch for a bit
Who the hell does this?! Heat the can?!
Agreed, OP’s behaviour here is mildly infuriating 😂
And most likely dangerous
100% cooking food in the cans leaches metals into the food Edit: you can live a long and happy life ingesting small amounts of metal. I use a cast iron, I get it. Just saying, I would rather eat nano amounts of iron than tin. Based on my experience soldering, Tin has an apx. 450°F melting point. I also thought agitated particles move more than relatively static ones. Last I checked water will evaporate before that. That doesn't mean tin won't be agitated at 212°F and release particles. Edit 2: afterthought; Would love for a chemist to poke holes in this! No pun intended Edit 3: plastic liners depend on the product, manufacturer, and nation of origin. As is tin coating. For example, my Progresso soup that I ate yesterday had a plastic lining, but my tomato can from Tues was tin lined. Also I assume more unregulated things since a lot of American companies are largely self regulating about pollutants (I'm looking at you, DuPont, Proctor & God), and I can't imagine for example that Pakistan is a stringent about lead content as Germany is. I learned way too much about the global canning industry this morning.
Tin is rarely used anymore in cans, they are made from aluminum.
Tins or aluminium doesn't matter anyway. The inside of the can is lined with a thin plastic liner to prevent the metals from leaching into the food and makes the food taste metallic.
NONE of this explains why the fuck someone is _HEATING FUCKING TUNA_ !!!!
Who the he'll heats the tuna?!
The sick fucks who fed me tuna helper when I was a kid for starters
I actually love tuna helper. But hate tuna in pretty much any other form, so there's that.
I don’t like tuna helper, but when I was a kid we used to have this amalgamation of kraft mac-n-cheese with tuna and sweet peas that I kind of miss eating. 😂
Nowhere on the tuna helper instructions does it say to MICROWAVE THE CAN OF TUNA. I really have to give it to Reddit for this one. Never in my life have I even ever heard of someone microwaving a can of anything.
nobody talks about microwaving and that would certainly have a different outcome than what you see in the picture...
That's not microwaved, it's done on the stovetop
Shut your mouth. Tuna helper is fire.
Never had tuna melts? But you don’t heat it in the fucking can. You mix it up with mayo/onions/hot peppers/celery/ lemon pepper/zatar and garlic and put it on a bagel topped with cheese first. OP is a psycho
People who are currently dissatisfied with the amount of plastics they consume. All cans are lined with plastic to avoid rust. It is toxic and definitely leaches when heated.
It's not to avoid rust, it's to avoid ptomaine poisoning and extend shelf life. There use to be a lot of ptomaine (pronounced tomaine) poisoning years ago when people would open the big cans of pineapple juice and leave them in the refrigerator instead of transferring to a new container.
That was my childhood. Big cans of Dole pineapple juice.. just holes punched on each side of the top.
I knew a guy that did this. He owned 1 fork and 1 spoon and no dishes. He would open a can of ravioli or chili or whatever. Heat it on his hot plate and eat it out of the can. Wasn't even a poverty thing, dude made bank.
But the can still rusts, that's why you have to finish it or transfer it to a different container after opening it
Right, when opened the bare metal (unlined) portion of the can is then in direct contact with the portion of the can that is covered in plastic. The rust can transfer underneath once opened. Being exposed to significantly more oxygen and moisture accelerates this process.
IS THAT WHY you can't just stick the can in the fridge
Yes and also the airtight seal is broken, with no way to reseal it
I have always stuck the open can in the fridge with one of those plastic can lids. I didn’t know you shouldn’t?
Nah it’s probably fine, especially since you have those lids. I imagined the commenter just sticking a cracked can of beans or something in the fridge, which even then would probably be fine, just not ideal
Mate if I'm paying for the lining, I'm eating it. I'd eat the can too if I could, tough times. /s
OP should be grateful the microwave didn't explode
I was under the impression it was done on a stove
This really raises more questions than it answers.
like for one...WTF??
This can be both “what the fuck” and “why the fuck” lol
And omg
>And omg... ... i can fkn smell that!
why the fish
It's art https://preview.redd.it/z8ri9wx3xt7d1.png?width=469&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab14ec0594c52c3fa3ba06cb889bd22fc0143ea6
It’s funny because pollock is also a type of fish.
Underrated comment
toooooo muuuuch tuuuuna <---- now that's art lol
Derivative
Bullshit!
If he didn’t win an award for playing Frank, this world ain’t right.
I thought it needed to be a banana to be art?
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Perfect
This could get featured in a new Final Destination and I would have accepted it more than seeing it here
OP's ghost made this post, and that's actually OP's brains on the ceiling, which have been up there since ages before the tuna incident.
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Well.. that's fucked up.
childhood memories 🥰
I wonder if he brought back the milk...
And what does the house smell like?
oh, i bet it smells looooovvveeelllllyyyyyyy
Thank god, it wasnt just me
Still more tuna than in all tuna sandwiches at subway
You are no longer allowed to eat canned tuna. -The Tuna Committee
Or to physically step into a kitchen.
Or to live without an in home care attendant
Hot can of tuna? What kind of monster are you?
And I’ve got a hot, hot tuna coming through
And a slightly hotter tuna
The next minute you have a cerveza to the face
Funky butt-lovin'!
Hot Can of Tuna would make a great band name.
Maybe if the members of Can merged with Hot Tuna... No, that sounds like a hot mess.
Canned Heat with Hot Tuna?
What, yall don't heat up a can of tuna on the stove to keep your home smelling fresh? 🙂
Look up the tuna episode on my strange addiction. Guy opens cans of tuna and leaves them around the house for the smell. Rubs the juice on his neck. Carries a can in his pocket. Wild 😂
Please explain. If you didn’t open it why were you heating it. On the stove top. Were you intoxicated. This scene is confusing.
You’re gonna be smelling that mistake for weeks.
Nah, my cat would have that ceiling tuna cleaned up in about 2 minutes. She'll find a way up.
I'm going to ask... this has to be a kitten right? I mean I've seen a kitten climb a door frame like a stripper pole...
I'll give her a boost at this point
I help my cat catch moths by boosting her up towards the ceiling 😂 I hold her and she puts her little arms up
I do the same and God damn are there a lot of miller moths around now
You’re gonna be jacked by the end of the summer with all those cat lifts
Ceiling Cat is gonna ceiling when she/he wants to!
...in the summer lmao. He's gonna have bugs everywhere
unless its in australia. In which case hes only semi-fucked
TIL Australia is the only place to live in the Southern Hemisphere
south Africa, chile, argentina, rn:  (i know there are more countries)
New Zealand: 
Months.
Hot minute
Pardon?
No. No pardon no parole. Straight on electric chair.
Sorry excuse my language but why the fuck would someone ever heat a can of tuna ? I feel like this is complete user error
I once made Ramen noodles and forgot to put the water in it. I was microwaving it, and it completely burnt and made the microwave and the whole house stink.
Sure, an easy mistake assuming you are talking about a cup or bowl that is already made to be heated and just add water first. You wouldn’t just toss a regular package of ramen, sealed and unopened, in the microwave and say fuck it, which is essentially what this dude just did.
Yeah, I only did that once. I have almost done it again a few times, but I caught myself, lol.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but for the life of me, I'm drawing a blank here. You've never exactly been on the right side of a bell curve, have you?
This whole comment section is everyone trying to think of a way to bail him out, getting frustrated cause it still makes no sense and just questioning more 😂
OP really needs an AMA or something, I’ve been scrolling looking for answers but still haven’t come across any comments from OP
What if I say I don’t know what a bell curve is? Does it have something to do with my bell end?
Puts you a bit on the left end of one I'm afraid.
Is the left side the good part?
Sure!
How do you forget to open something that you need to put into a bowl or pot in ORDER to heat it? Like.... you cant pour the shit into the pot if you dont open it ....
I think op just yeeted the can directly on the stove lmao
Or, worse, the microwave
I think they might have a bigger problem than tuna everywhere if they tried that.
But then how do you "forget" to open it
I was picturing him putting it straight into the microwave for some reason. Which would raise even more questions
Another question is why in the fuck would you heat canned tuna?
Maybe for a tuna melt but you would still have to open the can and mix in mayonnaise or something. Nothing about this makes sense to me. Unless it just the greatest troll post ever.
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That is phenomenal work there brother.. salute 🫡
Who the fuck eats hot tuna?!?!?!?
Oh there’s a market. A whole restaurant near me. https://preview.redd.it/bd8dz8mzkt7d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb8206a8d9c129bb2fac46ec6c6502a36d9504bc Only they’re talking about tuna steaks, not hot canned tuna 😂🤮
Ya I mean a tuna steak, for sure. But I've never EVER heard of anyone heating a can of tuna lmao
I haven’t either. But a former roommate of mine used to open the can and drink the water before doing anything else. I dry heaved every time.
I honestly don't think your room mate was human. That was an alien who didn't know acceptable social norms.
I’ve known him for close to 30 years. He’s a little different, but even for him this shit was weird. He was like you don’t drink the juice? NO PSYCHO, NOBODY DOES. Fucking tuna juice 😂🤮
YOU DONT DRINK THE JUICE???!?!!?!? AHAHAHAHA I love the fucking internet right now.
Reddit has been hittin today lol.
I give the tuna water to my cats.
As any sane individuals do.
I drink juice from a jar of pickles and some people think that's gross, but tuna juice? Keep an eye on that guy, he's clearly up to something.
He’s just a little off lol. Good guy, but the same IQ as a bag of hair. When he saw me eating an egg salad sandwich, he was like that looks so good, I love those, where’d you get it? I said I made it. He was like how? When I told him, that shit was seriously mind blowing and life changing for him. He was 40 years old and had no idea that a basic egg salad was just hard boiled eggs, mayo, salt and pepper. He isn’t mentally handicapped or autistic or anything, he was just raised by his mom who is a complete moron and he lived an extremely sheltered life. Homeschooled by a woman who never went to school after she was 10 years old.
Tuna melt?
I love a tuna melt with spinach, swiss and kalamatas with a lemon aioli on toasted wheat... But I take it out of the damn can before I heat it.
I'm pretty sure Op was it tending to eat this Hot tuna out of the can solo
Not so much *mildly infuriating*, more like __completely baffling__.
The really mildly infuriating part is where OP doesn’t explain wtf they were thinking by even heating tuna in a can on presumably the stove
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This was my first thought!
OP is a clown... A tired clown, but a clown nonetheless...
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Sorry, your only real option here is to sell the house. Nothing gets tuna out of drywall.
Except a bigger tuna
You realize the tuna is already cooked and ready to eat, right?
Deciding to heat it by placing the can on a stove is also interesting… I wonder if it was in a pan or the can was directly on the burner?
I wonder the same. Both methods are full on brain damage.
Saw the pic before reading the caption, and "tuna" was...not my first guess.
This is one of the most insanely stupid things I've ever seen in my entire life.
I hope you don't live anywhere this heat wave's hitting
Everyone’s interrogating OP and criticizing them but I’m just laughing at this mess. Exploding tuna, wtf man.
Aromatherapy for cats !
Aren’t these sorts of cans lined with a layer of plastic? Plastic that’s not meant to be heated because it breaks down into micro-plastics that you’re now eating?
Bro has been doing this for years which is what led to today’s issue.. vicious cycle
Wtf?! Who heats up cans of tuna?!
This whole post and OP’s reasonings is just completely bizarre. I’m in awe at how ridiculous OPs thinking is. Buying canned tuna in oil instead of water(because OP likes the taste of the oil better but pours it out anyways), making it cold in the fridge so the oil solidifies, then instead of emptying the can into a pot or bowl to heat up, throws the can on the stove top creating a tuna bomb? But OP likes cold tuna. The amount of thought that went into doing something so stupid is nuts. It’s like just one dumb thing right after another.
Who the fuck heats cans of tuna?
I’m just here for the comments
You don’t get to be infuriated over this, bud.
When I was younger my ex-girlfriend's roommate killed himself in his room while we were asleep. We didn't hear a thing. She went to ask him something and found his brains on his ceiling and the remnants of his head everywhere else. Whenever I see something like this it reminds me of that. And how hard it was to clean the room up. It was her parents rental property and we had to do it.
OP, I don’t know what the fuck is going on in this post but the comments have me dying laughing. After being a moody mess today I much appreciate the laughter. Good luck cleaning this disaster up.
Soooo many questions: Tuna in oil rather than water? Store it in fridge rather than pantry? Heat it up in the can on the stove?
I don't eat seafood, but among canned/tinned fish connoisseurs, oil packed fish tends to be better tasting and higher quality. I watched a whole Epicurious video on it during the pandemic. Gross shit.
I don’t think OP is a connoisseur, of anything probably, but certainly not canned fish. Tuna in oil is fine though, imo. But if you’re gonna be a lunatic and refrigerate, probably get the water one.
None of this makes sense. Why in gods name do you store canned tuna in oil in the fridge??
It did open by itself eventually
I love how OP is completely absent from this comment section lol
WTF? Store canned tuna in the fridge? Why??
Who said anything about the fridge?
OP in an earlier reply. He gets tuna packed in oil and because he keeps it in the fridge the oil thickens.
Yeah, I know now. Someone sent me a link to the comment. I actually found it myself, but there's only one reply to it, and it isn't OP. But, in the link, there were tons of replies, and OP's was the first.
I’m slightly bothered by this
Are you putting the can on the stove? 🤨
*You* are mildly infuriating, op
Are you aware that tin cans are usually lined with plastic? You could be melting that plastic into your food.
OP is not aware of anything regarding anything
wtf
This looks like it should be on TIFU, not MildlyInfuriating
Same thing happened to me last time I ate tacobell.
You sure it's not explosive diarrhea
I want an invitation to Thanksgiving ...I gotta see how you do it.
Who the fuck heats up a can of tuna? Someone with an office vendetta? Gonna stink this place out! Or you have many spoiled cats...
Please, in great detail, tell me the scenario because I cannot picture any of it in a way that makes sense.
Who heats canned tuna
yeah no, this is 100% your fault and deserved
You know that cans are lined with plastic, right? I would not want to heat something up in there
What kind of monster heats up their tuna in a can before they eat it? 🤮
Hey you shouldn't be cooking in cans period because nowadays most cans have a lining that isn't safe for cooking If you absolutely must-- poke one hole in the top to avoid making a pipe bomb
Why would you heat a tuna can at all?
What the hell were you doing, OP? I'm not a great cook - far from it, but heating a tuna can?!
Same thing happened when I microwaved a whole egg as a kid. I thought it would be a "hard-boil hack" or something. Took it out, tapped the shell with a spoon and.... BOOM 💥 I had egg on my face. Literally *and* figuratively. It burned like a motherfucker and smelled like sulfur. Luckily, I didn't do any real damage (ego took a major hit tho). So yeah..... don't microwave whole eggs.
That’s gross and you are gross for heating your tuna
Okay, wtf, who heats cans of tuna? Ewwwww
Why are you heating tuna? How did you forget to open it? Why are you heating it in a can?
“Forgot to open the can before heating it up…” 🤔
Everyone saying who eats hot tuna has never had a good tuna melt. But for real... why heat the can?
Why the fuck would you heat the tuna can in the first place? Do you also drink melted plastic when you are thirsty?
What sicko heats canned tuna?
And in the can.
First, why would you heat it. Second, shouldn't you take it out of the can first, not just open it?
I'm seeing a lot of the same question, but OP isn't answering. OP WHY ARE YOU HEATING THE TUNA WHILE IT'S IN THE CAN!?! At least transfer it to a pot of pan first. Cans have plastic liners in them as well as whatever the lid's sealer is made of. Both are almost certainly not safe to heat up and eat.
Man don't take this the wrong way but if you just put a can of tuna on the stove and turned it on you should really go to YouTube and type in "cooking" and just watch for a bit
You probably should stick to take-out/delivery.
 Just borrow some cats to clean it up.
I hope you were super high. That's the only excuse I can think of.
Low IQ activities