Cans with "White" interior...

[Sourdough]

I have some Bush's baked bean cans that have a white coating inside, will it hurt to cook in these cans. My guess is the white lining is because of the tomato base.

[Rick]

Yes it will and yes it is. It's actually a plastic liner to keep the acid from reacting to the metal can. Most cans today do have a plastic liner in them. Some are not as visible as the one you describe.

http://www.bisphenol-a.org/human/epoxycan.html

[Sourdough]

Thanks........I will have to find a plan "B".

[Rick]

You can burn out the lining then use it if you had to. I'm not suggesting it's a good thing but if you didn't have anything else it would work. Even darn paint cans have a liner in them. I built a stove out of a new quart paint can not too long ago and it had a lining in it.

[BENESSE]

Thanks........I will have to find a plan "B".

If you ever get that hard pressed you can always eat the beans right out of the can without heating them.

[Celticwarrior]

I think that if it has come down to my eating baked beans out of their own can or go hungry, then a little plastic won't keep me up at night worrying about my cancer risks. Quite honestly, the possible carcinogenic effects of eating stuff heated up in a lined can is terribly outweighed by hunger. It is highly unlikely that you will ever eat enough beans from cans over a fire (unless you are planning on ridin' the rails with Hobo Dan and Boxcar Willie) that you will develop a tumor from all those linings. Probably won't taste all that great, plastic being disgusting and all, but it's better than starving.

[Rick]

I'll roast my beans on a stick if it's all the same. A very, very thin stick.

[crashdive123]

They're already cooked. I like cold beans just fine.

[Sourdough]

If you ever get that hard pressed you can always eat the beans right out of the can without heating them.

Yes, but these were intended to be pots that fit onside the 120 MM ammo cans. But I dug into the Guiding camps (11 full camps) and found pots and pan to fit.

[oldtrap59]

I for one use an old BSA mess kit when I need to heat something. As far as beans I been known to eat em cold many many times unless I was heating something else up also. As I worked in the plastics industry for along time I figure I got all that in my system I need.

Oldtrap

[hunter63]

As long as it doesn't burn or change color I can't see where heating them up would hurt anything, it not lke your gonna boil the beans.....anyone try to heat the can and see if the is any off gassing or discoloration?

I don't mind my beans cold either, ate a lot of them like that, but just heating to warm them should be fine with me.

[Sarge47]

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.No, it doesn't hurt you at all...honest! It even helps you to shed a few pounds!

[randyt]

As Rick said. Dump the beans onto something then put the can in a fire and burn the bejeezies out of it. Then take some sand and water and scrub the bejeezies out of the inside of the can. Then examine to make sure all the plastic is gone if not repeat. Then use the can to cook with and tuck it away for next time. Keep an eye out for a chunk of wire for a bail.

[Sarge47]

As Rick said. Dump the beans onto something then put the can in a fire and burn the bejeezies out of it. Then take some sand and water and scrub the bejeezies out of the inside of the can. Then examine to make sure all the plastic is gone if not repeat. Then use the can to cook with and tuck it away for next time. Keep an eye out for a chunk of wire for a bail.

White plastic is made out of "bejeezies?" I didn't know that!

[randyt]

gotta get rid of them bejeezies, bad juju.

[Sarge47]

gotta get rid of them bejeezies, bad juju.

[Desert Rat!]

Or you can use your canteen cup, you do have a canteen cup?

[Kamel]

Ive always said bejeezus.

[Delta 5168]

You can burn out the lining then use it if you had to. I'm not suggesting it's a good thing but if you didn't have anything else it would work. Even darn paint cans have a liner in them. I built a stove out of a new quart paint can not too long ago and it had a lining in it.

Be careful not to inhale any smoke given off from burning can liners. Some are very toxic and carcenogenic.

[wildWoman]

Yes it will and yes it is. It's actually a plastic liner to keep the acid from reacting to the metal can. Most cans today do have a plastic liner in them. Some are not as visible as the one you describe.

http://www.bisphenol-a.org/human/epoxycan.html

The info on BPA in that link is outdated. BPA was banned from the maufacturing process of baby bottles in Europe and Canada (I don't know about the States) a couple years ago or so, because when heated, more of the chemical (which acts like a hormone in your body, if I remember correctly) leached into milk in the bottle and was considered unsafe.
Personally, I'd avoid heating up lined tin cans.