I tried cooking Corned Beef fritters for tea but ended up making a hash of it.
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In response to another posters quip , how the feck do you open those gits ?
That stupid little metal key always snaps on me halfway through the job and trying to use a tin opener on them to finish the job is a killer
Ham ? Normal tin
Spam ?.....Normal
Chicken ......Normal tin
Why is corned bloody beef in those stupid sloping rectangular tins and why goes it have that unusable key
nightmare going on ?
I bought about 15 tins ready for the inevitable lockdown and they are staring at me in the cupboard , grinning like metal rats !
I tried cooking Corned Beef fritters for tea but ended up making a hash of it.
I find opening a tin of corned beef quite satisfying. I bought a few tins during lockdown and I had corned made corned beef and onion pasties. Bloody lush. Don't think I'd had tinned corned beef for about 30 years. It's not a thing here. Corned beef to Americans means sliced brisket from the deli counter.
You’ve got to have a delicate touch. Like fondling a woman’s nipple. You don’t squeeze the key too hard and don’t go too quickly.
Like an earlier poster, I haven't had tinned corned beef for many, many years. Bought a few tins a while back in advance of the second wave and the inevitable lockdown. Have eaten one so far -great with baked beans and chips!
For Sale: 15 tins of the finest Argie corned beef. Never opened, some label damage and missing keys. One careful owner. Open to offers.
As an earlier poster said, corned beef is great with beans and chips. Nice in sandwiches too with Branston pickle.
I never have problems opening the tins with the metal key although in the past I've bought some where the keys have fallen off by accident.
As for being a nightmare to open I find Fray Bentos tins top the lot. I've used 2 different types of opener and ended up puncturing the tin with a screw driver and slowly prising it open with a knife. Never again.
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I do a few different things with corned beef, i mix a tin with pureed carrot, swede and about a quarter of the amount of mash potato, put it into a baking dish and sprinkle grated hard cheese on top and finish it off in the oven. Another dish learned from my time at sea, are 'silver dollar' hash cakes. Corned beef hash shaped into fat circles, dusted with a bit of flour fried in shallow oil and butter, with a nice runny fried egg on top. A more adventurous dish is Penalcaty which is a Geordie/Maccum dish.
But in answering the OP, i have to agree, the tin can be a bit tricky to open.
Spedger
I've learned some things in this thread: you can buy a tin of chicken; and minced beef can have bones in it.
I love corned beef, and it is pretty keto friendly. And I have no issues with the tin.
However, there are two types of packaging that simply should not exist any more: firstly, the standard tin with no ring pull. We get through about 5 tin openers a year. I've no idea what I am doing wrong but actually opening one of these bastards is impossible. We are currently on an electric tin opener which is absolutely useless. Secondly: that godawful hard plastic that you have to cut in to with scissors, which is razor sharp and incredibly hard to get in to for no good reason. There is no excuse for this packaging. None.