What is the best way...

[Joshuwarr]

...to clean a mess tin? After gorging on baked beans or any other sort of cheap tinned delight I cook up at festivals I always end up really struggling to clean the mess tins out properly.

So, anyone have any decent tips?

[ampersand]

throw it in the bin and dig another one out.

environment schmironment

[kingjamma]

...to clean a mess tin? After gorging on baked beans or any other sort of cheap tinned delight I cook up at festivals I always end up really struggling to clean the mess tins out properly.

So, anyone have any decent tips?

[laid back in the sun]

just stick to things that only need boiling water added to them in their own container like pot noodles, cous cous etc. that way the mess tin never gets dirty, festivals are too short to waste time scrubbing mess tins... infact just ditch the mess tins completely and get a little camping kettle as it will boil the water in half the time

[mikeb]

...to clean a mess tin? After gorging on baked beans or any other sort of cheap tinned delight I cook up at festivals I always end up really struggling to clean the mess tins out properly.

So, anyone have any decent tips?

Edited May 28, 2010 by mikeb

[laid back in the sun]

The immediate off-the-top-of-the-head answer is ... don't Eeeewww and all that but a bit of penicillin or similar never hurt no one ... allegedly ! Closely followed by the reminder not to forget that beans and ready meals et al in general come in their very own tin for a very good reason of course But other than that, my solution to such issues is to always cook/warm stuff in it's original tin so you don't get baked/burnt on nastiness to contend with and therefore mess tins if subsequently used aren't too big a deal to clean up afterwards providing you clean them almost straight away with the hot water previously used for warming stuff up

[mikeb]

except in many cases there is a lining on the inside of the tin which comes off and mixes with the contents if you just heat up the tin and its not very good for you

Edited May 28, 2010 by mikeb

[laid back in the sun]

certainly to be avoided by any pregnant ladies.... unless of course they want their sons to have small deformed knobs and undescended testicles

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/tin-can-...os-1260281.html

[StoneCircle]

Stainless steel scourers, all supermarkets or Poundland sell them, they are a bit like a Brillo but without the detergent and sharp bits!

[mouth]

just cook them in the can. easy

[Spindles]

Cook them? Eat them cold at best. Hell, I'd mostly be staring at them wondering how the hell I open them til I wandered off and bought an oggie instead

Last year I took cornflakes and a bowl. I ate cornflakes once. Even dealing with milk was more hassle than my somewhat addled mind could deal with. At glastonbury everything I eat is accompanied by a serviet and a price tag these days...just too much of a slacker.

[APC]

Elbow grease.

Found in the same aisle as spirit level bubbles, long stands and tartan paint.

[mikeb]

certainly to be avoided by any pregnant ladies.... unless of course they want their sons to have small deformed knobs and undescended testicles

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/tin-can-...os-1260281.html

Edited May 29, 2010 by mikeb

[halvin]

except in many cases there is a lining on the inside of the tin which comes off and mixes with the contents if you just heat up the tin and its not very good for you

[APC]

Anyway, Aluminium billies give you Alzheimers, don't they?

[doogleduck]

Elbow grease.

Found in the same aisle as spirit level bubbles, long stands and tartan paint.

[sneakydave]

I've been heating up cans by sticking them directly onto a fire/stove for years, whoops! Who puts plastic on the inside of a tin? humph.