OnlyCans - I Cooked a 3 Course Meal Using ONLY Tin Canned Food
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- Can (pun intended!) you really cook a delicious 3-course meal using just tin canned food? I gave it a go! Watch as I create a starter, main & dessert from some pretty simple staples - all in a tin can. It’s fun, creative, and surprisingly tasty with a little magic disappearing food along the way ;)
Ingredients:
Chicken & Bacon Chowder
1 can potatoes, diced, reserved the water
1 400g can cream of chicken soup
1 small tin sweetcorn, drained
1 tin of Bacon spam, cut into small cubes
Salt & Pepper to season
Spaghetti Meatballs
1 tin meatballs in tomato sauce
1 tin chopped tomatoes in herbs
1 small tin sliced mushrooms, drained
1 tin mixed vegetables, drained
2 tins spaghetti in tomato sauce, drained sauce reserved
Tropical Pavlova
1 tin chickpeas, water drained and reserved
120g caster sugar
1 tin pineapple slices
1 tin apricot
1 tin coconut milk, drained
1 tin caramel
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I've typed up the recipes here if you wanna have a try, you CAN put your own spin on it easily of course ;) barrylewis.net/recipe/3-course-meal-using-only-tin-can-ingredients/
🤭 i CAN see what you did there. 😉🤣
This is a great idea
Cheap Vs Steep canned food. I mean- why the heck not.
This was a really interesting video!
It would be cool to see a follow up exploring: How cheap you CAN go, How fancy you CAN go, and more experiments of what canned chickpea water CAN do.
Spaghetti hoops on toast is my comfort meal too! If you don't already put a bit of paprika, garlic and pepper into the spaghetti - it just levels it up a few notches.
The reason the first batch of chickpea meriunge dissapeared is because pinapple dissolves protein, and it's the protein in the chickpea liquid that makes it able to be whipped up like eggwhites in the first place. Really fascinating reaction tbh, I think adding any other fruit juice wouldve worked better XD
The fact that he chose the one thing likely to have that effect is wild. It might have been a baking fail, technically, but totally worth it for the science moment!
I thought only fresh pineapple had the enzyme that dissolved protein. Isn't tinned pineapple safe?
@@badcatbad Canning does destroy the bromelain, but the extra liquid seems to be the culprit. Quick google shows that even adding liquid food coloring can possibly throw off aquafaba meringue.
@@lordofthenotes now that you mention it, I think this does happen with real egg whites as well - flashing back to the first time I attempted to make macarons, and I had to add so much gel food colouring to get it to be visible that the added liquid turned my peaks into soup. I think I'd repressed that memory XD
Top tip to help with the chickpea meringue. To help stabilize the aquafaba (chickpea water) try using cream of tartar when whisking as it will help hold the peaks when cooking
it will still disappear without the sugar
I use tinned potatoes all the time. Fry them or put them straight into the air fryer with some Italian herbs and smoked paprika 👍
The first attempt at the meringue made me literally laugh out loud. Like belly laugh. The second attempt made me want to use my chickpea water to make meringues for the rest of my life. Thank you for proving it can be done!
Since I’ve never even bought a can of chick peas I don’t understand what happened with the first batch! 😂 Can you please explain why they disappeared?
@@amarenee2020 most likely a mix of adding extra liquid (which is sweet but also acidic), and not adding sugar. Sugar (as in sucrose, I mean) has a stabilising effect on protein foams (which is basically what both whipped chickpea water and whipped egg whites are - a whipped mixture of water and proteins). So without the real sugar added, the chickpea foam was way too unstable and simply deteriorated in the heat. The second go around he added in sugar, which stabilised the foam (creating a meringue when baked) but also made it taste nice!
Spam, tinned potatoes, chicken soup, Fray Bentos meatballs and tin after tin of chopped tomatoes was exactly what I was getting in the disabled persons Government food package during Covid. Wish you'd done this back then, lol!
Pineapple juice has an enzyme in it that breaks down protein molecules. That’s why it’s used to tenderise steaks etc.
Canned pineapple, however, does not.
I find the tinned potatoes handy for making slow-cooked stews, chopped up and tossed into the mix with seared meat, seasonings and tomato stuff and left to become awesome in the slow cooker, very low-effort stuff... :D
Would really like to see more of these, I'm always looking for ways to cook with canned foods!
Fried spam as part of a cooked breakfast (cut in slices) delicious
Drain the potatoes well then fry them in a pan with chopped leeks bacon and spicy chillies.....lovely.
Can’t find it but there was a post that mentioned how most canned foods are high in sodium.
A good reason to rinse most of the foods used today (except for impossible ones like soup or sauce).
And not add more salt when you prepare your dishes.
Yeah, every time he added salt I was yelling out noooooooo
This is a good idea to survive through the winter months
Cheers, yeah I thought it would be a fun video using up some bits hopefully around the house with one or two additions
Good for a nuclear winter as well lol
Also great ideas if you're a relatively poor student
You always CAN make a day better with your videos Barry! 😂😂
I can but try mate lol thanks
@mrbarrylewis You always do
How have we not got a Sorted Food X Barry Lewis collab yet?!?! You vs the boys in a tin can challenge
Edit: they did! Testing Chinese treats!
I just relatively recently discovered Sorted and immediately wennt on a mad search to find a collab with Barry 😂. Didnt find anything either. This NEEDS to happen
We got one 10 years ago
Hopefully soon,i kinda see barry lewis and ben/ebbers kinda have similar energy or maybe jamie or mix of both of them. We saw barry f.t zedaph wich is a gaming channel (mostly minecraft) so soo sorted food Hopefully.
@@jonathan100yearsago it’s seriously a marriage made in heaven. Think they’d seriously work great together on camera
@jonathan100yearsago the thought of Jamie AND Barry (Lewis, since Sorted also has a Barry) in a pass it on challenge kinda scares me ngl. 🤣🤣
Introducing Bromelain - the protein digesting enzyme found in pineapple!
You're correct, but only sort of! The processing involved in canning pineapple actually breaks down bromelain (which is mostly found in the core of pineapples, anyways, which are removed in canned pineapple). So the amount of bromelain in canned pineapple juice is minimal, if at all present. The real culprit is probably adding more liquid, combined with not adding sugar. Chickpea water has the same essential composition as egg whites (water and protein), but the stability of the foam is much lower than the foam made by egg whites. So adding sugar to stabilise the foam is even more important when using aquafaba!
@@alexandrabillett6451 So that means the tradition of serving it with gammon steaks to make them more digestible will only be of use if they are fresh.
Barry and his fantastic childlike wonder has kept me watching since the beginning. Thanks B!!
I make vegan “meringue” with chickpea water/ aquafaba all the time. Adding cream of tartar helps make it more stable if you do it again. So many people have tried mine and not realised it’s not egg whites and could not tell the difference. Then realised how much cheaper it is compared to eggs. Next time add cream of tartar and you won’t lose your dessert!
as someone who is allergic to eggs, discovering aquafaba has been a total game changer!!
and I have found that meringues made with AF tend to be crispier and tastier than those made with egg white.
😋
Use to eat canned potato’s out of the can too
Barry: _Makes meal using only canned food_
Entire US Midwest: "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!"
Love a canned meal. Chunky chicken in white sauce with tinned potatoes (or microwave rice if you're not going 100% canned), corned beef hash made with chopped-up canned corned beef, tinned potatoes and tinned carrots, plus because anything tinned is usually precooked, if you're cooking on a camping stove or you're just not very confident, there's much less risk of giving yourself food poisoning.
where is the studio kitchen? I thought it was being built to give Mrs Lewis her kitchen back...confused in central Ontario Canada ❤
I wondered the same thing. It must’ve cost a lot of money to be sitting there doing nothing.
That got abandoned ages ago
@@gtametro How do you know?
Hey Barry. Why are you still in your home kitchen when you built a kitchen specifically for filming. You finished it ages ago????? ✌️❤️👍
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that was the new kitchen
This isn't the kitchen you're looking for stormtrooper
I also wonder why he never used it for videos... What's up with that kitchen??
These also could have been filmed ages ago and only uploaded now
@biggzmcgee2.017@@biggzmcgee2.017True but his vids normally align with the weather✌️
I think I would have put the crispy spam on top, to keep the crispiness to it.
Pineapple has bromelain that breaks down proteins, apricot juice from a tin could have worked
Another wee hack you should try....use a "cup a soup" as a pasta sauce. Just use half the amount of water, then mix with plain pasta 👍 or use the correct amount of water, pour onto the pasta, sprinkle with cheese & do a pasta bake in the oven 👍
I keep a pack of tomato flavour in the cupboard for this. If i run out of tinned toms I just use that and add my regular herbs and spices for bolognese or whatever.
Hi Barry, This is great fun. I would have bought a tin of butter and fried the rinsed spaghetti in a bit of the butter to give it a cruncy texture and then put the sauce on it. Like a Putanesca. You omitted some tinned anchovies. Cooking tinned food a bit helps the flavor (as does adding at least half more fresh stuff but that was outside the scope of your challenge)
This was great fun. I enjoy merengues but since I'm on a low carb regimen I still enjoy my eggs and cream.... All the best to you and the girls (including the Mrs of course) Jacques Mexico.
My cousin taught me a great soup recipe. 1 can each black beans, refried beans, diced tomatoes with chilies & canned corn. Just add a little cumin & maybe onion flakes. I lived on it all last winter!
Thank you for your videos Barry.
Sound like nice simple meals, easy using just tin food. You have in your cupboard. Or buy for quickness.😮😊❤
That was awesome. Definitely more tin can food cooking ideas.
Barry I can't believe the meringue just vanished! Can't stop laughing
A tip/trick I learned a while back with tinned mushrooms. Once you strain them off, sautee them for a bit with some salt. It will expel the excess water out of them, so when you add them to a sauce, they will pick up the flavor of the sauce. I personally don't mind the taste if I don't do that, but if someone you're cooking for doesn't like mushrooms because of the tinned flavor, this trick will change their mind.
A boiled can of condensed milk is dolce de leche, which if you translate it, it literally means sweet milk, so it makes sense.
Hmm, did Barry really not realise that those were chicken meatballs? He kept saying beef. But that's the reason for the "mushiness" of it, chicken meatballs are less dense than beef.
I haven't been able to buy beef meatballs in my supermarkets for nearly 3 years....they all seem to be chicken now
“He kept saying beef”
Actually, his only reference to beef was saying that using mince would have been be better. Crazy that people even liked this misleading comment.
When did he “keep saying beef” like actually ? Are you delusional…or just looking for something to be a grump about. 😂
Nice job, Barry! These looked really good (especially the chowder). I wonder, if you could have boosted the flavour of the spaghetti sauce if you would have tried and sautéed the mushrooms and vegetables before adding the rest of the ingredients to simmer? You could have used the oil from the spam to not use another ingredient from the pantry, even. Maye try it next time?
no bake refrigerator cheese cake. 237mL Cream cheese, 75mL Lemon juice, 414mL sweetened condensed milk, 5mL vanilla extract. whisk with stand mixer or hand mixer tell smooth. Pour cream cheese mixture into prepared pie crust. Refrigerate for 3 hours or until firm.
That reminds me a bit of my student days, I always had all sorts of canned food in stock, when something was on offer and I had some money I always bought several cans at once. Sometimes the month lasted longer than the contents of my wallet, so sometimes a tin of lentil soup ended up in the pot at peak summer and I sometimes got really creative hehe
You can make a decent chilli type dish mostly from tins, the only addition apart from spice I have is some chopped bacon and an onion.
Fry chopped bacon, add chopped onions, add a can of corned beef and cook for a few mins as the corned beef will break down, add a little tomato paste (tin or tube) and cook out slightly, then add canned tomatoes, chilli powder and finally kidney beans (no salt needed as bacon and corned beef have enough). I would serve with rice though so suppose that's not tinned 🤣
I pretty much used to eat like this as a student 😂 My favourite was adding a tin of mackerel to a tin of mulligatawny and serving with a packet of savoury rice.
info tidbit, the reason the Sainsbury budget brand is named Stanford Street is, that's the street in London where their Headquarters is or was
"I shouldn't really do this" *eats a cooked potato*. What a mad lad.
heaven forbid he finds out they're cooked in the can too! 🤣
This is ever so clever; really, what a great idea. If the power is off but the gas stove is working, these are delicious meal ideas.
Was it just me that read "only cans" and thought Barry might be starting his own "speciality" website 🤔 😂
Great video again, Bazza!
Make some tasty Hummus with the chickpeas as you already got them out of the tin 😁
Just in time for me to watch when I cap the day, down here in Texas! Enjoyed ya for years! Always entertaining. 💕
I saw you keeping a few bits of fried spam back for snacking, cheeky, but I’d absolutely do the same 🤣❤️
I use a bacon grill, which is a lot cheaper than Spam. The best way to cook it is thinly and most definitely dry fry it.
Epic to see you doing the old 3 course challenges again 😎
Nice video mate !
cheers mate
my favourite joke is about chickpeas, but I can't repeat it as this is a wholesome channel!
pineapple contains enzymes that break down proteins, often used to tenderize meat
Barry, to stabilize aqua faba, you can use cream of tartar. I would've added evap milk to the chowder, and left the veg out of the Bolognese. I love this episode--you're a food mad scientist!
Suggestion: Cook tin can food in an airfryer
While still in the Tins???
Some brilliant ideas, with can foods but not sure about the dessert 🤣& thanks for sharing Barry 🤗🍴
You can also use the chickpea liquid to make Mayonnaise.
Chop the mushroom and meatballs to get bolognase consistency, dried herbs need to be cooked in sauce
Don't knock canned food! You can get anything in a can, nowadays. A few weeks ago, I had some quail, and it was phenomenally good. SPAM is huge in Hawaii, and even the humble pilchard can be made into impressive meals.
I have a cookbook by the thriller writer, Len Deighton, who was also a superb cook. His book contains many very high end recipes, using expensive ingredients - but he also encourages you to, wherever possible, use tinned ingredients. It's brilliant. If you are careful, you cannot tell that canned food has been used.
And yes, you can get tinned clams - I have some in my cupboard, next to the jars of cockles, mussels, and tins of crabmeat.
Not bad. 👌👌👌
A million subs would make a nice Christmas gift for Barry.
I am sitting in my chair. Greetings from Norway
Tinned potatoes are lovely when roasted in the oven or air fryer
Just £17!! For 20 tins! Unbelievable. I know a few are branded but wow.
judging by the fear of oceans, I dont think barry has played Subnautica, i was fine till I played that and now a puddle gives me existential crisis
Reminds me of the 4x3 2 1 recipes. When will that great series be continued?
I'm not on a bus, not in London; not even London, Ontario, Canada, although that is down the road. Thanks out to you, London bus rider!
The meringue needs a stabilizer as well why's sugar, preferably cream of tartar but you can use cornflour.
Fun Fact: The Italian term for soft noodles is AL BENTE, like al dente, but with a B.
Great video barry please more can meals and 5 star meal from cans
The residual pineapple juice in the syrup likely denatured the protein in the aquafaba, causing the liquid mess.
My favorite part of each video... Homer Simpson scowling me with his eyes from the corner 😂.
You’re giving me ideas Barry. I feel experiments coming my way
I submitted a bun recipe to his website today. I hope he makes it. I love this channel.
I wonder if you had gone to Aldi or Lidl would they have come up cheaper? Some shops that I thought would have been more expensive turn out to be cheaper than the cheap places.
TRully in awe on te variety of canned foods in other countries. In ARgentina we have some tomatos, some fish, peas, , corn, and not much more
What about washing the meatballs and frying them before adding to the bowl?
You can also use Aquafaba as a substitute for egg whites in a Whiskey Sour.
that chickpea water meringue was fascinating, I knew you could whip into a stable foam, I didn't know you could bake it!
My guess it was the acid in the pineapple juice that caused it to fail the first time, but I have no idea really
yeah, aquafaba is a common substitution for egg whites in quite a few things. I think Sorted did a show of utilizing it for a mixture of applications which were pretty surprising. One of them being mayonnaise!
you can make a fantastic vegan mayo with chick pea juice and I'm a massive carnivore but it is great
"I probably shouldn't do that."
No you shouldn't! Stuart is the one with the YOLO approach to food. 😆
Puzzled that you didn't go fpr 2 rather obvious movie puns: "Chowder with a Chance of Meatballs" and "We're gonna need a bigger bowl!". 😉
He DID the bowl/boat thing...
Bloody marvellous
Barry you should have drained and fried the meatballs.
Edit: give them a crispy edge like the spam
This was the hottest cold open I've seen in a while.
I've been guilty of making a lunch that is just a tin of cooked meatballs and some buttered toast. Multiple times. But it was still kinda nice.
What’s happening with the other kitchen?
Chowder is my favorite too. Both the dish and the cartoon.
You should have air fried the meatballs to get some added texture then just drizzled the sauce over them imo
Another great video in the can, quite literally. 😂
Yes, please do a cheap vs steep re canned food!
Now you're properly trained to eat after the apocalypse! Yay!
I am indeed currently in London
I was also on a bus earlier, but that wasn't in London
Hi Barry! Love from Canada!
Plot twist that's Thanksgiving dinner early
Well this video is a "Can do" video 😂😂 and I think maybe u could add this to the student recipe playlist... Just a thought as they looked quite gourmet especially the chowder one and I suppose could put pastry on the top and chowder pie and I think meatballs spag bol needed some grated cheese on the top but overall definitely a canned success and maybe do some more as I definitely think this is such a great idea for quick easy cheaper recipes that can (haha) for anyone tbh and loved watching it too
Chowder ✔️
Spaghetti meatballs ❌️
Meringue ✔️
I don't like eating over cooked Spaghetti but it might taste better with fresh cooked Spaghetti than tinned. Good effort though
When are you going to use your new cooking studio?
This will be very handy to know next year when they hit us with the cyber attack and the power goes out. All you need is tinned food, and a single gas burner from the camping store. Get that pantry stocked with tinned food now.
Should have added cream of tartar to the chicken pea water
"Mmm! That's actually nice!" he says with a look of pain on his face lol
Barry has appeared on Sorted Food awhile ago. This is how i found Barry and I've been watching his channel ever since.
Take a drink every time Barry says "oh my word!"
But what actually is Barry's word?
UA-cam ad revenue must have taken a pounding 😂😂 I do joke but this was genuinely interesting.
You could have saved the tomato sauce from the Spaghetti and the meatballs as tomato soup.
You do realize that MANY people use canned and shelf stable foods to prepare full meals on a regular basis?
He didn't really suggest otherwise, did he?