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Exploding Tins

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  • 10-02-2005 11:55pm
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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,790 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I bought what I thought would be a good value pack of Heinz Beans from Tesco. There were 12 regular size tins for €5.99. I bought them about 3 weeks ago, they are not out of date until 2006 but today we discovered one had exploded in 12 pack packaging. I had to throw out that and the two tins beside it. The smell was woeful, like rotten fish. I didn't have the curiousity at the time to go investigating and opening the tin, so I just threw them all out.

    There were about 5 other "safe" looking tins, although one had a bit of blemish on the it, a little rust, I don't know what this was caused from. Internally maybe?

    Just a word of warning.

    Regards.


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    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    My mum reackon's there was something fermenting in the tin, which produced huge amounts of CO2 causing the can to explode.

    I've also just been informed by my mum that you should NEVER eat anything out of a dented tin no matter how small the dent. This is because it might have a teeny hole in it causing air to get into the can and botulism to occur. That's not something you really want.

    Aren't mum's clever ;)


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,790 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    something fermenting in the tin, which produced huge amounts of CO2
    I wonder what though??


    Unless I dent the tin myself and I'm just about to eat it, I'll take your mums advice:)


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    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    I would she was a science teacher :) Botulism a wee bit fatal to leave to chance.


    Her latest guess on the exploding is that the can got contaminated before sealing and the bacteria or yeast (most likely culprits) that got in were feeding on the sugar in the sauce and releasing CO2. When there was too much CO2 the tin exploded.


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,790 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Damn beans, don't know what your getting! Give my thanks to your mum!
    Thanks to you too:)


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    Ciaran500
    Registered Users Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Something similar happened to my mam, except the can only exploded once an attempt was made to open it. The rotten dog food went all over the kitchen (literally) and I nearly threw up from the smell. The can was not dented so I assumed when it was packaged a tiny amount of air was trapped in the can which caused the meat to rot.


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,523 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Egads - dog food is rotten enough without it actually being rotten.


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    it can be a hole in a tin or the tin wasnt sterilised properly. You could have got a load of free stuff from heinz if you had kept it.


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