Will it Explode: Canned Meat in Fire - Easy Outdoors Tests
Will it explode - canned meat in fire. Slow motion capture of canned meat exploding in fire. Do not try this at home.
When you are outdoors on a camping trip, the most common way to prepare food is on fire. You brought with you some canned meat. You want to heat it up, so you put it into the fire. But you forgot to open it before. What happens next? Yes, you are correct, it will be blowing up in fire. Placing canned meat in fire can put you into an epic outdoors fails list, because unopened canned food in fire can lead you to canned food exploding in fire.
But why are cans blowing up when they come in contact with extreme heat? As the canned meat heats up, the pressure inside the can starts to build up. Resulting in an exploding meat can. The same can happen to any other tightly sealed canned food.
If you do not want your canned food blowing up, it is better to make some holes into the cans before placing them in the fire. Or open them up alltogether.
Meat blowing up in fire is one thing, but in case you were wondering, other reasons for canned meat exploding are spoilage and hydrogen. While canned food is generally safe, exploding cans show that errors can sometimes occur. Clostridium botulinum does well in environments that are low acid, low sugar, and low oxygen – making canned foods a perfect environment, often meeting all of these conditions, resulting your canned meat blowing up.
And keep in mind, exploding cans are potentially dangerous to your health. If you do not want to end up on an epic camping fails list or outdoors fails video for cans blowing up in fire, do not try this at home!
But normally, when you have taken all the precautions, you do not have to worry about your meat exploding in fire.
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