[OT] Cooking for men [was: Re: [plug] No BankWest on Debian Testing/Unstable]

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:49:09PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <1068353019.2687.78.camel at latte.internal.itmaze.com.au>
| on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM +1030, Onno Benschop wrote:
| > Uhm, AFAIK such cans are filled when they're hot and have no air, so if
| > you heat them in boiling water, nothing happens.
| 
| If you heat them in boiling water, yeah. But if you leave them on the
| stove-stop or in the oven, I would expect them to heat beyond 100
| degrees Celsius and then something would start to happen.

Yup, that's more-or-less what I was thinking.  Also, as James pointed
out, if you microwave them (whether in water or not) they're likely to
be dangerous, as even if the water doesn't actually boil in the
microwave it could easily reach >100C and start to boil after you take
it out.

Cameron.

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