Cooking in cans? What about the liners?

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I am seeing a lot of posts and photos showing members using beer cans as ultra light cook pots as well as cooking food in the cans they came in.

Are folks burning out the can's BPA liner before using to heat water or food?

That liner heated up is potentially toxic, plus you are eating melted plastic.
I personally would rather have a purpose built cookpot.
 
I agree. If the liner has been removed, then possibly in a jam. I prefer a solid aluminum bowl or cook pot. MSR is my go to cookwear.
 
Ti needs no BPA !!
Toamato , an acid fruit has long been canned .I wonder how well those tin coated cans were effective in preventing problems?
 
So none of you re heat meals in the microwave? Or do you use glass or ceramic for everything? What happens when some celeb tells us that glass leeches chemicals into food?

Put boiling, or hot water in a nalgene?

Drink coffee from a travel mug?

If it's that big a deal for you don't do it, but no need to jump on those that do. Not everyone bought into the BPA scare.
And I don't think anyone is eating melted plastic, or they're doing something wrong. The liquid in the container keeps anything from melting. Similar to how you can cook eggs over a fire in a paper bag without the bag burning, or boil water in a plastic container without it melting.

The amount of chemicals leeched from heating water is probably less than what's in the contents of most cans.
And if coke can't eat through the lining, no amount of boiling will(that's a joke)
 
Grunt , Nalgene is the name of a company. They used to make things from polycarbonate which contained BPA. Now their products are made from a copolymer called Tritan made by a company called Eastman .
This is BPA free !! but has all the properties of polycabonate .So new Nalgene products are from Tritan. I assume most of the other companies making things like water bottles are using Tritan also.
 
So none of you re heat meals in the microwave? Or do you use glass or ceramic for everything? What happens when some celeb tells us that glass leeches chemicals into food?

Put boiling, or hot water in a nalgene?

Drink coffee from a travel mug?

If it's that big a deal for you don't do it, but no need to jump on those that do. Not everyone bought into the BPA scare.
And I don't think anyone is eating melted plastic, or they're doing something wrong. The liquid in the container keeps anything from melting. Similar to how you can cook eggs over a fire in a paper bag without the bag burning, or boil water in a plastic container without it melting.

The amount of chemicals leeched from heating water is probably less than what's in the contents of most cans.
And if coke can't eat through the lining, no amount of boiling will(that's a joke)

Heating anything in plastic could cause it to leech, just because it doesn't 'melt' so to speak, doesn't mean that its not leeching into the contents of the container.

When you boil tea, the chemicals in the tea leaves (the naturally forming chemicals) 'leech' into the water, even though the tea-bag and leaves are still intact.
 
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