Tin Can Sandwich Bread

By dddavis59

So, hopefully you enjoyed part 1 of “What to do with a leftover #10 can.” Previously, we showed you how to use your can to create a lantern, candle and pin cushion. This time we’ll be showing you how to use your leftover can for gardening, cooking and camping.

Ingredients

• Dough/Bread machine
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• salt to taste
• 1/4 cup finely minced sun-dried tomato
• 1/3 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 package (or 1 tablespoon) yeast

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from thereadystore.com

Preparation

Step 1

Mix all ingredients to create dough

Spray insides of two tall tomato-juice-size cans

Divide dough and place in cans

Cover cans and let rise for an hour

Place cans in cold oven

Turn oven on to 400 degrees and allow bread to heat inside oven for 15 minutes

After 15 minutes, turn oven down to 350

Let bake for 15 more minutes at 350

Let cool and enjoy!

I have seen people do this and the bread comes out great.

We used to this when I was young but I heard that the cans are coated with something now that you should not cook into your food. Have you heard this?

i heard it will give u tin poison

Plant Pot????? Thats illegal in most states lol.

Yes, cans are now coated with BPA and the last thing you want to do is heat it! It already leeches into your food (we don’t eat canned anymore, except for Eden Organic who does not use BPA). So, don’t bake in tins!

So if youre melting wax for candles in the cans… you’d be putting BPA in the candles as well? Wonder how that would work for burning afterwards?

This is cool. But I also would be concerned about repeated BPA exposure. BPA is cleared from the body relatively quickly, I think, so doing this once or twice a year isn’t going to kill you. The problem, however, is that we’re exposed to BPA and similar chemicals so much already that we’re probably getting some almost every day in some form or another, so why give yourself a big bolus of it unnecessarily?

Just google BPA free cans and you can probably find lots of companies that don’t use it. That being said, they most likely use something else, and who knows what it is any whether or not that’s bad for you.

BPAwould be your main concern, nt tin poisoning. I dont thin that modern “tin cans have any tinin them. I believe they re made fom steel, now-a-days.

cooking in tin cans might be ok. I would watch out if the can ius lined inside with plastic. you failed to mentioned about this. would be great. i would use ones without the plastic inside them. if you can find any these days.

The only thing you need to do prior to using the tin can is to condition it by burning it in a fire until the BPA is removed. It will be blackened somewhat but you can still clean it like you do a cast iron skillet. Then you can oil it and use it like any other baking dish. Correct about the bpa in canned food. The worst is canned anything with acid foods like tomatoes. America is in a sad state. No ethics any more…… only legalese.

Another thought/paradigm for you: The only reason to use a tin can would be the “cuteness” factor. Bored housewives love stuff like this. From my “practical” mind point of view, this is a total waste of time at home when you have a bread pan. The only good point of it is going light while backpacking/hiking. You can splurge for a canned convenience and then use the can or you can simply pack the can with the ingredients and only add water at the site. My practical mind just never gets the point of a bow around a tin can with bread in it. Venus and mars!

why do you have a bread machine listed as an ingredient, when the bread is baked in an oven?

WOW i have never cooked (anything complicated) in my life and I find this very interesting and i want to make it I also found this because of Imgur THANK YOU IMGUR

First of all, that is a #5 and not a #10 can.

If you are worried about BPA’s then just use a coffee can.

Find BPA-Free canned products (which are better for you anyway than buying canned foods with BPA) and use those cans.

Actually, this would have some advantages over a standard bread pan, since all the slices would be identical. Sandwich loaf pans, aka “Pullman”, pans are very expensive. I wonder if you couldn’t put the pan in a 500 degree oven and “cook” the BPA off before use? Or just line the pan with foil?

The shape is perfect for a bologna sandwich!

You can bake these in a Ball canning jar (jelly size) and not have to worry about the BPA.

I get previous poster’s dig about this not being practical if you already have a loaf pan. However, this seems like a good idea for home made breakfast sandwich sized bread slice.. you know, for a single egg and a single slice of Canadian bacon or similar. for that use, it seems nice to have a home made option (even if you use a ball jar to avoid the BPAs)

How does one remove a loaf of cooked bread from a Ball canning jar? Spoon by spoon??

As a response to Earleybird, I really like the idea of cooking bread in the tin not for a couple of practical reasons. First, the bread is now the same shape as the ham slices, yay! Second, my husband and I hike. After baking the bread in the tin one can simply cover the top of the tin with plastic wrap and a rubber band and throw it in a pack. No worries about crushing your food with your gear.

Cooking bread in a canning jar is easy…use WIDE MOUTH jars…fill it with whatever dough you’d like, and only fill it 2/3 full. Bake as directed for whatever recipe. You oil the jar first…and slide a slim knife around the bread, it will just slip out.

The recipe calls for tomatoe juice cans, I am not sure if they have BPA coating or not. You can easily tell if they are coated, the inside is white. Many products come in non coated cans, you would simply need to look inside the can prior to baking in it.

I could see this as a camping “tool” only if you could bake/cook it over a fire….has anyone tried it?

This was a popular cooking activity at Scout camp when I was a kid. It works quite nicely. Don’t use a can that’s white on the inside–those are coated. A can that’s had something relatively low-acid, such as green beans or spinach, will do fine. Another advantage of baking in a can is that the ridges imprint a built-in slicing guide onto the surface of the bread.

And when you’ve mastered baking bread in a can and are looking for a new adventure, there’s always making bacon & eggs in a brown paper lunch sack…

My mom used to make rum-soaked fruitcake in cans for Christmas gifts.

I tell you, society is doomed. So far I’ve seen everyone going on about BPA, nobody has suggested baking the tin cans in the fire to burn that coating off, then seasoning them the same as any good iron pot.

Heat the steel and paint it with cooking oil. The oil burns into the metal and creates a coating, the reason your Grandma’s iron skillet is black!

I have used cans for most of my adult life to bake bread in. They are great for most round lunch meats, and in smaller cans for bread makes the bread the correct size for a breakfast sandwich, or Hamburger, etc. I particularly like the tall sweet potato cans. They make a nice long round loaf. Thinner than a coffee can but longer. For us just right!

This is directed at early bird, considering this is a readiness site, I don’t think it’s intended for you to use this as your regular way of baking.

I have heard of this being done in Terra Cotta pots..

Can I do this in glass jars too?

You can bake in glass canning jars. Seal immediately with a sterilized lid and keep on a shelf or take camping. Nice for Christmas gifts also. most of us are slowly poisoning ourselves by cooking and baking in aluminum. Something they have been able to attribute to alzheimers. So stainless steel, cast iron or glass are the only cooking vessels we should be using.

What if you baked the bread in a #10 can let it cool and then sealed it with a can sealer? How long would this stay fresh?

whats wrong in using a regular loaf pan?

this is more for camping than in the home, you dont even have to wash out the can all you do is put it in the fire for 5 mins that will sterilize it and burn off any food and plastic coating on the inside

Look at a YouTube video and learn how to shape buns, and eliminate the pan or can completely. Expensive artisan bread – bada boom, bada bing.

That Alzheimer’s attribution is a myth. It is NOT true.

I’ve used them as inside planters, but mostly I just scrap them, not worth a lot, but a nickel here and there adds up fast.

Burning the plastic and/or BPA off the cans doesn’t seem the most environmently friendly thing to be doing.

OK, I gotta try this. I make bread all the time in loaf pans or in my Dutch Oven but never in a tin can. This is a great idea cause you can use a plastic lid to seal it up and keep it fresh.

Great ideas here. I read all of the comments too! The only thing I can add is “damn the torpedoes; full steam ahead!”

When I go camping and I mean camping with a tent.I do not have an oven.We cook with an open fire.That is the reason to go camping to be outside.

Bread making day so thought I would give this a try. Perfect timing as going camping this weekend. Made bread as usual but instead of putting in loaf pan put in #10 can. Baked as usual. Allowed to cool in can. Put makings for vegetable/lentil soup in an old Cool Whip cotainer – just happen to fit perfectly inside #10 can on top of bread. When got to campground took all out of can, wiped out and made soup in the can. Worked well but #10can a bit large for easy carrying.

Made bread in a can with my mom when I was a kid. My brother just got a solar oven and I would like to try to bake bread in it. Right now he is baking a cake for the holiday. Just save a few non-lined cans as you eat and have them ready. Tin is looong gone from cans but the name remains. Tin was used to seal (solder)the seams. Even longer ago lead was used to solder the seams. How does that scare you.

Check out the Blake Holliday booklet Baking with a 10 can.

This is a neat idea for camping! I plan to link to it on our Summer Activities pinboard. Check it out at pinterest.com/homedepot.

- Chante

“tin” cans have always been made with steel and then lined with tin. Lots of modern cans are lined with plastic. Don’t cook in plastic, but you can find cans still lined in tin, cooking in tin is now worse than cooking in most metals… If you open the can it is easy to tell if it is lined with plastic or tin.

There used to be a restaurant in my town that sold ‘gourmet’ sandwiches with bread shaped exactly like this – down to the little ridges. They’d hollow out the middle, cut off the top and add the ingredients to their bread-cup. SO STINKIN GOOD!!!

Would this work with the #10 cans? That would make a great monster loaf!

Being raised in the south and by a very resourceful grandmother I learned a lot of how to recycle everyday items. Things we call novel ideas were just natural back then. Remembering how many times I wore dyed flour sack blouses. Baking in cans resulted in some of the best bread I’ve ever tasted. I can just taste granny’s banana bread now. Thank you for sharing. I’ll be grabbing some bananas on my next trip to town so I can try out this recipe.

A great list of cans without BPA:

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/bpa-lined-cans.html

Why does it have to be a bored housewife, and not a lame stay at home dad or male that doesn’t work? Know plenty of those.

I think this is a great idea for convenience, lightweight, and reusable drinking container.

I think most r missing the point! You bake it before you go camping and use the can u baked it in to keep your bread from getting crushed! Crushed bread; common camping problem! Thx for info on removing BPA. Mason jars would break IF bakingvthe bread in them for the same reason! Have fun and be safe camping!

Finally, someone with a brain! Thank you cowgirl for stating the obvious, that most on here, have some how neglected to observe!

To Fred the Rabbit,

The bread machine is listed because it is an easy way to knead bread dough. You can use whatever method you prefer to make your bread dough.

To all of those thinking of canning baked bread:

If you just put a lid on the can after your bread is baked, it will not have much longer shelf life than any other baked bread.

If you actually can it, driving the air out in the canning process, or put an O2 absorber in when you seal it up, you will have bread in an anaerobic environment, and you will be risking botulism. It is possible to safely can SOME breads and cakes, but it is not possible for a home baker to test for that safety, which involves making them with both a slightly acidic dough and testing that there is not enough free water in the finished product to support botulinus growth at that pH. Please do not just go canning random breads and cakes. You have to know what you are doing and be able to test your baked goods for free water as well as pH for that to be safe.

As for baking in cans, yes, you need to get the lining out of modern ones first, and yes, it only makes sense if you feel the need for a round loaf or you are baking many more loaves of something than you have bread pans for.

Personally, I recycle many of my #2.5 and #10 cans in whole or in part for do-it-yourself food storage, either using them to protect sealed mylar bags of dehydrated storage food by removing the lids with a side-cutting can opener that allows the metal lid to be fitted down inside a plastic can cover and snapped back in place or using bottoms/tops from regular cans with lipped cans plus a rubber/silicone gasket and bicycle pump vacuum sealer to put up dry product with an O2 absorber and dessiccant. The ones I don’t need for food storage or other household uses go into the metal recycling bin.

My mom always made pumpkin bread in small one pound coffee cans when I was growing up. We wrapped them up in foil & gave them out as gifts. We called them “silver bullets”. It was because the coffee cans were handy & bread pans expensive.

I still do this as an adult. Now it is just a tradition. Everyone loves the round loaves. Now I’m gonna have to try making yeast bread this way, just for the novelty.

Am I missing something? Why wouldn’t you just use a small bread pan instead of going through the trouble of cleaning/using the cans?

I think I am going to try it in a Dinty Moore Beef Stew can. Its a lil wider for a nicer biger slice. I wonder if you could bake this in a camp fire. Does anybody have an idea about that ? Or am I just opening another can of worms ??

You could just burn the coating off the can first.

Ok so an easy way to get rid of the plastic lining in the cans i just burn it off outside of course then it iw a bare metal can

Oh for the love, really? We all die from something

How do you get the bread out of tge can?

All of those campers making comments about open flame cooking and not having ovens I guess using hot coals left from the wood you are burning never occurred to you. The oven is the fire pit. Have you never wrapped up a spud and tossed it in the embers or better yes put the burger and some chopped onion carrot and Potatoes in a pack?

Earlybird, there is practical uses that make sense, it’s not just board housewives that do this kind of thing! We pack mules into the Sierra’s and this is a great way to make your bread ahead of time and pack it in so that it has some kind of shape left and isn’t smashed.

You can’t cook the coating off the can people that’s common sense and why would you use the can after you thot you cooked off the coating (yikes) , simply use a coffee can our Dave the right cans as you find them when you open random cans when you eat, hello! Anyway I’m outta here peace! Still a great idea

Tried the Tin can sandwich and the Banana bread on our camping trip, all I can say is Awesome! Everyone loved them, they were delicious.

If your so concerned about baking bread in a tin can, Use a wide mouthed pint canning jar!

I agree with Tress. Also, if you are honestly desperate enough to cook bread in a tin can, you probably would be more concerned with starving to death and less concerned about BPA. Just sayin’.

You can’t cook the coating off the can people that’s common sense and why would you use the can after you thot you cooked off the coating (yikes) , simply use a coffee can our Save the right cans as you find them when you open random cans when you eat, hello! Anyway I’m outta here peace! Still a great idea

Then they should sell bake pans that look like cans. It would be great, BPA free.

WOW What a riot! Reading through these comments is so much better than late-night comedy! Thanks so much for the laughs! And also for some great ideas…

My mom used to bake dark brown bread in a can like this along with boston baked beans in a bean pot. Mmm it was delicious and fun to have round slices! Made it special. Good memories.

At our home, one of our uses for these cans is, we use them to put our toilet plungers in! We Use a new can every month! Keeps the plunger off the floor! PS> to keep the plunger clean, we add just enough water to cover the plunger combined with a couple Table spoons of a good smelling liquid soap & add 3 Tablespoons of corn starch. Keeps the bathroom smelling good while the cornstarch keeps the plunger from deteriorating! Works great!

These look wonderful – however, have any gluten free options???

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