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FWIW - this picture has been floating around since the mid 2000’s; the person who blogged about it cooked it super wrong. The instructions said to use a bain marie, and they didnt know what a bain marie, but saw you boiled water in it, so they just boiled the can. If you boil a can, water is 100% going to seep into it, and turn it into…what you see here.
I think that context just graduates the food crime from second degree to first degree
Ok so wtf is a bain marie?
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How you would use one to prepare a tinned cheeseburger I cannot fathom.
You’d be making the variant known as steamed hams. It’s an Albany expression.
A double boiler, sometimes called a “hot water bath”.
Basically a container with what you’re cooking inside over the top of a pot of heated water.
It heats things up evenly and gently.
Ok i know what a double boiler is and what theyre for. I’ve never heard them called that before
People use fancy words when they want something to seem important.
or, and hear me out there, other cultures exist outside North America.
It’s what it’s known as outside of the USA and the term has existed since about 300AD.
Judging by the can, this thing is meant for multi-day backpacking trips, and you’re telling me that on top of tent, sleeping pad, change of clothes, propane stove etc. I have to bring a freaking bain marie along and do some french cooking nonsense in order to get this to taste right, when the patty already looks more like an industrially manufactured pipe seal?
Sure, no problem, I got my bain marie right here, next to my solar powered sous vide oven and my portable overnight charcoal smoker. I don’t need room for water or sunscreen or anything, having a gourmet canned cheeseburger is far more important.
LOL
LMAO, evenwe call this cooking sth “over steam”
It’s a lower pot that you boil water in with an upper pot that you put the food in. No water gets near the food, it’s meant for applying even, indirect heat
Wait are these cans not watertight?
They are in the same way any canned good is. If you boil it, the can is likely to warp slightly and allow water in, also things like plastic liners and other chemicals can leech into your food, you generally aren’t supposed to cook food inside the cans they come in.
Canned food is literally pasteurized in said can, while submerged in water at temperatures slightly lower than 100 °C. The whole reason to put food in cans is to create an airtight atmosphere that can be thermally treated with hot water. This kills certain spores (mainly botulinum) which is why canned food has a very long shelf life.
It’s still not correct to cook the food that way, but not because of the reason you made up.
Boiling a can can absolutely open up a can. Pasteurizing happens below boiling point and for much shorter time, not enough time to change the pressure inside the can.
Boiling it for a long time can evaporate liquids and cause the pressure to build up and split a can open or warp it enough to open. It’s enough of a concern that condensed milk generally ships with a warning because of it.
Note that it won’t generally be the giant pop/explosion of cooking a can directly in flames.
In fact, cans of condensed milk specifically bursting when boiling was a big enough concern a few years ago because of a tiktok trend making caramel that way that there articles and videos of people fuckin it up
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/style/why-cautious-making-caramel-canned-131502700.html
Hmm, I might backpedal a bit with my comment. Though I believe it’s near impossible to get the contents to a flashing point unless the water that is used is in a pressurized environment. Condensed milk is a liquid, meaning it is heated a lot faster than food. Liquids are subjected to convection when heated, meaning they heat up easily. I doubt a hamburger inside a can will ever reach 100 °C in boiling water.
Still, thanks for explaining your reasoning, I work in the beverage industry and know a fair deal about pasteurization, but that all happens somewhere between 60-80 °C and CO2 is the main culprit in terms and peaking cans. I wasn’t thinking about water turning into gas, thus increasing internal pressure.
No problem on explaining my point! I do also concede that it is a guess on my part, but also when you consider theres other images you can find of a canned cheeseburger that don’t look nearly so wet and soaked, I feel reasonably confident in my guess.
I have a feeling it might have to do with the cheeseburger being trapped in an airtight environment. That way the water can’t evaporate, it stays in the can and condenses right back onto the cheeseburger once opened.
Botulinum toxin?
I’m starting to suspect Dr. Oetker’s credentials may not be real…
No, it’s real. He got an actual doctorate and a specific patent on baking powder.
I didn’t come here to learn something!
I’ve had these, and they are actually pretty good. But you will burn your tounge. Badly.
I will not hear a single bad thing about these. They were a gift of the gods and were only removed to punish humanities sinfull nature.
Repent, I say. REPENT!
I remember watching youtuber try these out. She said it tasted better than she expected. Like, not good, but edible enough in a pinch.
As disgusting as these appear and sound on paper, every single review I’ve seen across multiple brands of these canned hamburgers/cheeseburgers has been positive. Because of those I’d give 'em a try if I ever saw them for sale.
“Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know 'cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker.”
Look, you’ve been out in the wild in the rain and then get a bit of hot canned cheeseburger, of course it’s going to taste great.
no…this just cannot be real
You can get a lot of things in a can.
Pasta. Meat. Cheeseburgers.
Whole chicken.
Peaches
Come from a can.
They were put there by a man.
In a factory doowntoooooowwwnnn
If I had my little way, I would eat them every day
Whole chicken you say?
!Cougar gold canned cheese is an incredibly popular Christmas present in
OregonWashingtonThe Pullman airport has a vending machine with the big tins of cougar gold. For all your “oh shit I forgot to grab a $40 block of cheddar while in town” moments
Yes, cheeseburgers in a can are a real thing. Haven’t tried them myself, but I heard they’re not awful.
Pretty sure Ashens covered Trekking food in an old video on yt.
I’ve noticed Ashens is kind of winding down, release schedule is basically just the holidays now, has he announced anything? Retiring etc?
Haven’t heard anything about retiring yet. I think part of it is a lot of the pound shops he depended on for tat have gone away. On top of that, after all these years I would guess that he is running out of novel junk from his collection to talk about. He’s also been working on his feature films too, which may be more rewarding to him in the long run than reviewing wonky toys and terrible food.
I’m cool with him slowing down as long as he’s enjoying himself.
I think he’s making another movie.
after Polybius Heist?
Yeah, he making a horror film - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ashens/turn-back-a-folk-horror-film-told-in-reverse
It’s a risky business model, going all in on catering to the post-apocalypse last-resort pre-cat-food desperate survival market.
Cheesus Christ
Na dann, Mahlzeit!
It even has pickles, what’s the problem?
It doesn’t look any worse than an AM/PM burger.
Dear God, almost like comparing left testicular torsion to right testicular torsion lol… both are terrible and borderline prison food.
True, but I expected it to look even worse.
I thought the canned cheeseburger was from Germany, thankfully it’s from the Swiss (Suisse). 12 month shelf life!
Are the Swiss really that cheap they’re saving on a .ch and settling for a .de?
What did you expect?
Considering that the worst cheeseburger I’ve had in my entire life was in Germany, that looks about right.
My worst hamburger/cheeseburger (whatever that disgusting thing was) ruined my day and a half. It was in Gdynia, Poland in late 1990s and the taste was beyond bad but I was really hungry.
It was some disgusting piece of unidentified minced swine meat, pickles, enclosed in old bun and filled to the brim with despicable mixture of ketchup and mustard.
A perfect metaphor for what this country was back then. The one meal that described its aspirations and shortcomings.
The one I had in Germany was disturbingly uniform in its thickness (which was quite thin), dry, didn’t taste like much, and was absolutely overflowing with shredded lettuce. It was kind of like what someone would make if you described a hamburger to them briefly and they just kind of winged it.
How can Germany be bad at hamburgers?
That’s where Hamburg IS.
Just because it started there doesn’t mean it’s good though.
A missed opportunity to have the label just look like a cheese burger.
