SwizzleStiX
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Is there, 
Is There Anything Wrong With Keeping Tins in The Fridge
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pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
The tin isn't tin, it's aluminium, and once open will react with oxygen to give you alzheimers'.
Most tins aren't aluminium. except the drinks ones. Tomatoes and beans and things come in steel cans with a layer of tin on the inside. Don't they?pilchardman said:
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
Ahem. ^^^Derian said:Yes. But I can't remember why
Hell-o! I'm here!
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
Yes. But they still degenerate. And erm. Altzheimers'. And. Stuff...reallyoldhippy said:
all my tins, open closed are in the fridge should i worry ?
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
I can't remember.marco mark said:
should i worry ?
Erm. What am I doing in this room?
pilchardman said:
yee but u dont (they) stay long 
Hell -o! It's the metal maaaan.pilchardman said:
Apparently and allegedly
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/he.asp?articleID=402&LinkID=3624
Doesn't say about A's tho...
Yes. You shouldn't store food in opened tins. Oxidation. Bad. Look at Pilch.marco mark said:
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
The author must have done it a couple of times him/herself, and memory's fucked as a result...Derian said:
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
marco mark said:
should i worry ?
why would you be keeping closed tins in the fridge? parallelepipete
Aelod cysylltiol y Taliban Cymraeg
You keep your closed tins in the fridge too?marco mark said:
should i worry ?
Oh, you mean beer cans and suchlike?
I think the issue is with foods that are relatively acidic, like tomatoes. What I can't find is why aluminium would not react with acids in food when not in the presence of air, since the reaction between either aluminium itself or aluminium oxide (aluminium is quite reactive and spontaneously oxidises in air to form this) and acids doesn't require oxygen.
Anyone else know why?
parallelepipete
Aelod cysylltiol y Taliban Cymraeg
First you go round handing out s's, and now you're answering questions before they're asked?Derian said:To keep them c
Oh I see, spanglechick asked first
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
reallyoldhippy said:Look at Pilch.
Do I have to?
Well. I never knew that.
Geri said:I have an entire cupboard full of tupperware type items for the purpose of storing left over foods in the fridge.
So do I, or at least I have a lot of containers and a lot of lids, but none of them match each other
Is it dangerous to leave the cat food in a tin for a few days then, until it gets eaten ?
*contemplates this might be why the cat is such a loon*
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
Because they have done it in the past and their coherence suffered as a result. Obvious, intit?RachellyAbused said:none of my bosses have ever given me a coherent answer.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Re Alzheimer's and aluminium...there were tests done and people with Alzheimer's were shown to have abnormal amounts of aluminium in their brain tissue. This was widely reported. HOWEVER, it was later proved that the method for preparing the brain tissue for examination was putting abnormal amounts of aluminium into the brain tissue. This was not widely reported. I heard this from a reliable source (Scientist talking on BBC Radio).
Velouria
Long time lurker
I had a brilliant article on this very subject in a student rag (it was a column written by a Mr Mold, and called ... Mold on Food ) years ago. I probably don't have it anymore (and if I do it's 60 miles away). From what I remember he reckoned it'd be fine for up to a week, after that you'd run into problems.
Anyway, if your can is plastic coated inside (peas spring to mind, some pea cans are like that) oxidation isn't a worry. The only bit that'll oxidise is the bit you cut, at the top. If it isn;t plastic coated, it'll only oxidise around where the food is, in general ... so vitamins etc may be destroyed by oxidation near the top. Of course if the can is covered in clingfilm, then oxidation is limited to the amount of air in the can. Plus the temperature in the fridge slows the rate of oxidation.
It was quite a good article; maybe one of these days I might find it
) years ago. I probably don't have it anymore (and if I do it's 60 miles away). From what I remember he reckoned it'd be fine for up to a week, after that you'd run into problems. Anyway, if your can is plastic coated inside (peas spring to mind, some pea cans are like that) oxidation isn't a worry. The only bit that'll oxidise is the bit you cut, at the top. If it isn;t plastic coated, it'll only oxidise around where the food is, in general ... so vitamins etc may be destroyed by oxidation near the top. Of course if the can is covered in clingfilm, then oxidation is limited to the amount of air in the can. Plus the temperature in the fridge slows the rate of oxidation.
It was quite a good article; maybe one of these days I might find it
