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| brighteyesk9 |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 1:41:28 PM
I keep some of the tin cans that veggies come in. Then I let the boys bake sweet breads in them. This way the boys can bake without messing up my good pans. And the little round loafs are so darn cute.
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| ranchmama |
Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 09:55:16 AM
I guess I will be getting the big cans of veggies and pie filling here in a month. We get them for branding and I will just have to ask the cook over at the other place to save those for me too. I want to put holes inthe top, string wire through then the kids can use them to carry. Just can't do that witht he plastic ones..
My MIL had a Blimpie store and I was always after her to save the 5 gallon pickle buckets for me, they can be useful for so many things!
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 08:55:32 AM
Elise, I totally agree about the coffee cans. The tin ones are much better for scooping grain. We don't drink coffee, but it sure was easy to have someone who did save the cans for you.
I bet if you ask a restaurant to save you some large cans they would. Some things still come in them, although not much any more.
We have a pizza place that gets their mayonnaise in square 5 gal buckets. They rinse them out and give them away with the lids that snap on. They are great for storing dried food in. I've even used them down by the barn for toting water, but since they have plastic handles they don't last as long for that job.
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| ranchmama |
Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 07:47:44 AM
Cute ideas Cindy! I've heard of the burgers and fries before, even a hotdog cake! Those would be so fun to make!
I really like the ice cube idea. The juice I buy is old orchard and they come in plastic containers, just right for a cooler. I will remember that for this summer for sure.
I wish coffee cans came in tin cans now. I don't like the plastic ones. I keep saving them tho to take up to the shop for staples and fence clips but I would rather have a good tin can
:( ya know?
Keep the ideas comming!
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Apr 18 2009 : 10:49:07 PM
Mara, I got a great idea while I was reading your post. All summer while DH is out working ground/swathing/baling/hauling hay he takes one of those old gallon sized drink cooler full of tea. I go through several ice cube trays to try to keep his cooler cold through out the day. They idea I got was this, use the cans with a plastic lid on one end and cut the other end out, fill with water and freeze. Then if I take off the plastic lid and run under water for just a minute I should be able to produce a large cylinder of ice which shouldn't melt as fast as the regular ice cubes.
I just love getting ideas when I read what everyone else does. Now if I can just find some plastic lids for the tin cans I'll be good to go.
If anyone has an abundance, would you let me know?
Oh, and I saw this show with great idea for the tuna cans as baking pans. It was for a kids party. Take regular cake mix(mix according to directions on box) then spray cooking spray in tin cans, place on cookie sheet and 1/2 fill with cake mix, sprinkle with sesame seeds. When the cakes are done cooking remove from cans and slice in half sideways this makes a "top" and "bottom" of a "burger bun", now for the burger, use the tuna cans again sprayed and use brownie mix and fill about 1/4 of the can and cook (they cook quicker so watch them). Then you can use Kiwi for "pickles". I forgot what they used for the "lettuce, tomato, cheese", sorry. But for "ketchup" and "mustard" put food coloring in white icing and mix up and put in the picnic style of ketchup and mustard holders(you know the red one and the yellow one that are plastic). The kids can make their own "hamburgers". Oh, and I almost forgot the "french fries". Fold aluminum foil accordian style then slightly fan it out on a cookie sheet. Pour a line of yellow cake mix in each trench and bake. Then the kids can use the "ketchup" on their "french fries" also.
I don't remember what channel I was watching on TV when I saw this but I loved the idea, so creative and fun. The kids can even help make this during a party if you have enough tuna cans available. These "hamburgers and fries" were so adorable!!!!!!
Cindy
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| mulegirl |
Posted - Apr 17 2009 : 7:39:16 PM
I've made some can luminaries. First you use the cans for target practice (a 22 makes a nice size hole), and if you're a good shot you get a can full of holes, but be careful to not cut yourself. You can put them over a small log and smash the sharp areas with a hammer.
Lids? get some metal snips and cut them into fun shapes like stars, fish, butterflies, whatever, and make mobils.
I'm sorry but do you really eat spam "in a can"? Read FAST FOOD NATION and you may want to reconcider canned meat.
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| JojoNH |
Posted - Apr 17 2009 : 05:15:46 AM
Sharon, what a great idea!! Off to look at what catalogs I have that can be used. Thanks!
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| Merry |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 8:07:11 PM
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Originally posted by Lorie Marler
I have a tin man made out of vegetable, sardine, and coffee cans that we totally adore. My oldest loves the Wizard of Oz and on vacation several years ago we found a house out in the country that had several Tin man's hanging on the fence with a For sale sign and a drop box for us to put the money in. He is so awesome and hangs in my laundry room.
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| Lorie Marler |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 7:36:20 PM
I have a tin man made out of vegetable, sardine, and coffee cans that we totally adore. My oldest loves the Wizard of Oz and on vacation several years ago we found a house out in the country that had several Tin man's hanging on the fence with a For sale sign and a drop box for us to put the money in. He is so awesome and hangs in my laundry room. |
| Calicogirl |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 7:28:10 PM
Joanna,
I like to use the black & white pages from Shumway's Garden Catalog (very antique looking) and glue them on the outside of the cans. It looks cute!
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| JojoNH |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 6:51:47 PM
Some great ideas for using the tin cans! I use mine ( all different sizes) for starting all my seeds indoors. The super large ones are for plants that I intend to keep on my front porch all summer. I have successfully grown cherry tomatoes, green peppers, catnip, beef steak tomatoes and rosemary all in large tin cans.
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| nampafarmgirl |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 10:16:46 AM
I have used tuna cans for making a the samller of a top of cake for a small cake, think of graduated cake pans.
I have used various sized cans for making breads as well. This way you can make enough for friends, neighbors as chrsitmas gifts at the same time.
Regarding lids, I have a hand held can opener,(got it from pampared chef) that takes the lids off without cutting it off, it breaks the seal from the can and you can actually run your fingers along the edge and not get cut. I bought one for when we went camping, I didnt want little critters getting into the garbage cans and cutting their mouths. You can use this type of lid to tin punch. When the kids were samll or when we did a VBS, I have given the kids small hammers and nails and they make tin punch xmas ornaments, hang them in their windows, I tie rope or ribbon as a hangar. You can use juice can lids for the same purpose.
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| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 7:37:51 PM
I am collecting up the various size cans I use. I have been saving them all. I am going to make the nail caddy in the ideabook for the teacher gifts this year. The neph-manys and I are going to cover them with wallpaper and fabric samples dicarded from an interior design firm. The entire project will be repurpose, but they can use them for paintbrushes and rulers. Markers, pencils anything their heart desires. I try to give a useful room gift.
At least its something they can use. My Dad was the maintenence superviser at a school district in the Cities. He loved the day of the class parties. The teachers threw out most of the gifts. Could you imagine how much stuff they could get stuck with if they kept it all? He would collect it up with the custodians and they would give it all to a local nursing home for the people who didn't have close family. They at least would get a gift.
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| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 5:52:00 PM
OH!!! I love the idea of using the used mason lids for your garden! I never knew what to do with those and just tried to recycle them.
For the sweat bread recipe, how does that work. Do you just use a regular recipe and pour into the tin instead? i love this website!
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| StitchinWitch |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 4:16:27 PM
We used to nail can lids over the knot holes in the chicken coop to keep the mice and rats from getting in at night and eating the feed.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 01 2008 : 2:05:15 PM
I never thought to use tuna cans for big cupcakes. I've been searching for a large-cup muffin pan for a while now. I don't need to look anymore. I'm using that one!
I have various tin cans that hold cooking/baking utensils, pens and pencils, buttons and plants. I use the "used" mason jar lids to mark my garden plants.
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| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 5:25:39 PM
Hey Rosemary!
It's nice to find someone who knows where I am! lol. I am only a couple miles from Harundale in Point Pleasant. Robinson'sis now a culinary arts school. Glen Burnie Elementary is now called Glendale Elem. It's so crowded here now with car lots, restaraunts, and stores. No square inch has been left alone! Anyway, nice to meet you!Take care. Oh, thanks for the advice of freezing some water in the cans..great idea!
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| Garden_artist |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 3:04:43 PM
When I was in Skagway, we saw the neatest idea. Someone used their vegetable & coffee can lids. They layered them up electical poles in their yard like fish scales, the largest ones on the bottom, and made the bottom of the pole look like the bottom of a palm tree. It was really cool. If i can find my pictures I will post them.
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| Rosemary |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 2:26:37 PM
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Originally posted by Tammy Claxton
I use my old veggie cans as luminaries around the holidays. I punch holes in them to make a pattern like a tree, a bell, etc... Then I put in a votive and put them on my porch. Ohhhhh, ahhhhhh.
Hey, Glen Burnie! I used to live in Harundale. Went to Glen Burnie Elementary -- waaaay back in the 50s. Got my Girl Scout stuff at Robinson's. Loved it there.
I learned to do luminaries like that from a friend and her daughters, who said they fill them with water and freeze them before punching the holes. Don't leave them in the freezer and forget about them, though, as I did (ADD strikes again!) because the bottoms puff out.
You're right --- very pretty effect at night, and reusable, unlike luminaria made with sand in sandwich bags. |
| Holiday Angel |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 11:40:36 AM
The old tuna cans would make good muffin tins or individual cakes for school kids when they celebrate a birthday. Each could have their own and they can be removed from the can and decorated before hand.
I have used the tins for making homemade breads also and hanging them or pie tins in the garden to scare the birds away.
while I'm at it, the plastic colored lids on some cans can be made into mobiles or tug toys for babies and toddlers too!
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 11:05:44 AM
I bought a box of old small kitchen items at an auction this summer. In the box I found about a half dozen homemade biscuit cutters fashioned from the bottoms of old tin cans. They all had little holes punched in the bottoms. That was good creative recycling! I kept a few and put the rest in my booth in the antique mall.
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| newheart |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 10:40:37 AM
I have for many years saved the smaller coffee cans and for the Holidays I baked breads and cakes and whatever in them... and cover them with Christmas wrapping paper, put plastic lid back on ..glue some gift tie on it, and give them to neighbors and teachers and friends..Only thing they have to do is use a can opener to open bottom of can and slide round cake,bread etc out...Nothing like Strawberry bread or fresh blueberry bread with coffee on a snowy winter day...
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 07:47:12 AM
What great ideas! I am thinking now! |
| brighteyesk9 |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:29:31 AM
Great idea on the pictures of us making the breads - I will see what I can come up with and let you all know.
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| brighteyesk9 |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:14:54 AM
I have also saved a few of the spam cans. I think they will make cute little loaves of sweetbreads or even meat loaf. I haven't used them yet but I will.
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| brighteyesk9 |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:13:18 AM
These lids are very thin and very bendable and they can be cut really easy. I thought about somehow hammering them together and maybe making tree faces or even some type of bird bath or fountain.
Yes - you just grease the cans, either with bacon grease or with a non stick spray and then you pour the batter into the can and bake. I have found that it takes a little longer to bake them but the are pretty when they come out round and the kids love them.
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