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   @SortedFood

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

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   @chrisk283

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   Interesting that canned vegetables were not included. Could it be that there is no good use for them?

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   @user-sc7oc7ib5m

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   i love cornbeef hash tbh.

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   @firstlast5068

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   I nearly vomited as they were opening the canned duck legs!

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   @tylermkoyama

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   Pan fried spam is pretty amazing

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   @j.rinker4609

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   I always (last 2 years) get my brother shelf-stable foods for Christmas. Can you recommend some shelf-stable (tinned or otherwise) foods sold at a regular supermarket that are really good?

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   @matthewbowers88

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   I didn't catch the music editing the first time round. I'm on a sorted binge.

   Nice touch.

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   @samiraperi467

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   Heck, even cheap tuna is much better in oil than in brine. So you buy the cheaper brine tuna, drain it and add oil.

   Also obligatory "Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam lovely Spaaam wonderful Spaaam"

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   @Timlagor

   January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

   I don't eat less tuna because I dislike it. I eat less because I've become aware of what the trawlers are doing to our oceans

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    @andy70d35

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Mike, you are wrong spam and corn beef are great, big pan of stovies made with corn beef after being out in the freezing cold ❤ that duck didn't look very comfy when it fell out of that tin 😉

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    @helenswan705

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Here's a can-related question. I usually buy chopped tinned tomatoes, very useful. I have accidentally bought whole baby plum tomatoes. Now I could just mash them up but that seems a pity. But I don't know what to do with them! Any ideas? i cook with whole fresh tomatoes both large and small but this may be different, They will be very soft?

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    @destroy141

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I love canned tuna! cant make a tuna sandwich without it!

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    @skittlemenow

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    In the US a lot of folks do a three bean salad with tinned beans. Just drain and mix one tin each of green beens, kidney beans and garbanzo beans dress with a bit of olive oil and flavored vinegar season it up with salt pepper, garlic powder and onion powder. Find it at a ton of bbqs and potlucks.

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    @niallsheridan3704

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I'm sure you know Jack Monroe's book 'Tin Can Cook'! Recipes are great!

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    @brunobruno1152

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Wait why are they so judgy about tinned food? Is that a UK thing? Tinned food in Portugal is seen as a perfectly respectable ingredient. Tinned is used for certain recipes like the ones the chef showed, where tinned is a way to avoid food waste, cut on cost, speed up cooking etc etc, while not affecting the taste. Seems like such a basic cooking principle, that this video was quite astonishing for me. Tinned food is way better than fresh for some recipes btw… Such a weirdly narrow way to view a whole category of foods 😂

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    @joshuagregory3723

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Jamie is not the only one who still loves corned beef or Spam, corned beef sandwich with Brown sauce! Either that or corned beef stew in winter is a proper home warmer dish.

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    @skilletborne

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    You can tell who grew up middle class, and who grew up working class here
    Made respect for Jamie, there's nothing wrong with a tinned fruit cocktail or peaches. They're so nice.

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    @shaunybwfc123

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    10:48 that is not a proper corned beef hash

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    @justjane2070

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Always have a tin of Spam and Corned Beef in the pantry 😊

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    @Branwhin

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I LOVE corned beef! Lasts an age, it's tasty (if usually more salty than necessary), you can do lots of stuff with it…

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    @User910sA

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Jamie is just a pig 😂

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22. 

    @SoulofStorm333

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I disagree with right guy, left guy is litterally your normal guy in european country

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23. 

    @airmanma

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Canned food!!!!!

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    @nateflora223

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Something I do with spam: dice it up, fry it, let it start to brown then drizzle a little bit of pancake syrup to overset the saltiness of spam. And put it in Mac n cheese. But If mixed with soy sauce and ginger put it with a stir fry. Or with diced potatoes make a sort of hash

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    @linebrunelle1004

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    emergency preparedness calls for good tin food. except for corned beef, but it's a matter of personal taste.

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    @mn4169

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    My mum baked potato and corned beef pies. My husband, a swede was warned not to eat it, by me. he took a huge slice and well he said, it grew in his mouth. The dressing he put on t did not help. We laugh about this 34 years on.

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    @GlamGoreChaosQueen

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Canned spam is lovely, with so many applications. My favorites are in scrambled eggs, Hawaiian in musubi, and learned from a friend from the Philippines, fried with a side of piping hot white rice and banana sauce. To any who aren't familiar with banana sauce, it's a red sauce that came about as a ketchup alternative during ww2 while there was a tomato shortage.

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    @sheilanc1

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    As a person who raise's my own chicken and turkey I can a lot of meats. I'd love to see more ways of using other then soup, gravy, cold salad , tacos. the canned carb dish was a fab idea thank you.

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    @evaasjostrom1373

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Did you really eat the duckskin? And you criticise your friend for eating canned food??

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    @ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhell

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    regular sardines are already good ffs and nothing like that purposefully smelly icelandic fish. makes no sense to reuse that footage

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    @wolvesofdeltora7685

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I live in the midwestern part of the US. Canned food is sometimes the only way to get certain ingredients during certain times of the year. I personally love most canned foods and I apparently inherited my great grandfathers love of canned fish. I love pickled, smoked herring.

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    @Fyreflier

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    What's excellent is that less than five months later, Mike used the tinned confit duck in the 20 minute Heinz mayo battle!

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    @alphenhousplaysgames4565

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    as someone from one of the countries that produce those exotic fruits, lemme just say, those tinned fruits tastes way more like syrup than the fruits.

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    @abigailgerlach5443

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I've actually made a trifle with fruit cocktail and a homemade proper custard. It was delicious. All the fruit is the same texture, size and consistency.

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    @jaradsmethers3601

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    the music on duck confit is perfect compliments to the editor

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    @marycasanova8905

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    For those who hate Spam, one word, Misube

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37. 

    @clusterbungle

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I'm team Jamie on this one; tinned meat is dee-lish, especially spam! 👌

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    @kwoylee5617

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    God, that was one of the funniest videos I have ever seen. The editing and music around the 12 minute mark (the duck) had me literally crying with laughter.

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    @maryjanegibson7743

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Oh yuck! Most of that tinned junk made me dizzy just thinking about it. I truly don't care if you can make something decent out of it. But it was funny watching the reactions to all of it.

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    @jf76

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    There a lot of tinned food items that make certain ingredients available to you in your location that might not be otherwise. Water chestnuts, good quality white Spanish anchovy fillets (delicious), well, many Spanish high quality seafood items like clams – delicacies really, preserved things in jars – well, infinite options. Having a good pantry of preserved and affordable items is a great resource. Don't get things like tinned hamburgers or whole chickens… not that I have, but I have seen them, and no. I do have a childhood memory of corned beef hash with potato and loved it… but I was perhaps 5 years old. Salty and fatty and crispy. Tinned San Marzano tomatoes would be #1 in my book, good jarred chickpeas #2.

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    @neilcrook7838

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Anyone remember Bacon Grill from the 70's. Fray Bentos steak pies in a can that was a real treat.

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    @annastebelskyj580

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I love tinned herring! And pickled herring! It's such a delicious treat! I dont eat herring more often because it's pricey in Canada. Now, if only I knew what the heck to do with the giant 300g tin of sardines my husband brought home…

    Also, tomatoes. Whole, diced, and crushed, for spaghetti sauce, chili, etc. Thats just way more economical than doing it from fresh.

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    @Quiltfish

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    This episode gave me an idea. You should cook Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

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    @markbolton4142

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    if you slice spam very thin like bacon and cook it till it becomes slightly crispy it will task like bacon

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    @patmaurer8541

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    If you need to use a tin of corned beef, try it in a Rueben! The vinegar of the sauerkraut cuts thru the fattiness of the meat and counters the nutty sweetness of the Swiss cheese–yum!

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    @vatalkshow

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    When Mike went after Jamie saying “you’re the only one that eats like this” I lost it lmao

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    @huckleberrywinn

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    I'm truly shocked they all eat every meat.

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    @maryjoyspohrer256

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Wait??!! Where's my 'Dad Joke'!

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    @maryjoyspohrer256

    January 16, 2024 at 12:52 am

    Excuse me Mike, but tinned meats are a must when you are feeding 9 hungry children! Jamie is right, SPAM is a wonderful thing. Diced up in an egg scramble, sliced longways into slabs to fry off an make sandwiches, diced up and fried with potatoes and onions to make a hash, 'can shaped' slices fried up to be a side with eggs. We were only able to spurge for corned beef brisket once a year for our St. Patrick's Day dinner because we needed at least 3 of them in order for everyone to have a bit. Tinned foods are what you get whether you like it or not when you need to get food from a charity pantry, so you need to learn how to cope. We were however able to get frozen veg, because that is really where you can run into problems with salt content. Not to mention, they will be mushy, which is fine in a 'can-can' soup, but not as nice as a side. (can-can soup is where you open several tins of veg and a couple of tins of broth, chuck them all in a pot and there you have it, soup for dinner.)

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