To think that opening four tins of tuna is stressful and DH is BU?

[Tinoftuna]

NCd for this, obviously.
AIBU to think that opening four tins of oily tuna is stressful? You get smelly oily tunaoil all over your hands , then you have to drain it into the sink (that also gets all oily), the tin opener gets oily and tuna-y and worst of all you have to wash the oil and tuna bits out the tins and lids. I asked DH to open them for me and he said I was being a snowflake! Who is right? He said I should ask Mumsnet.

I needed four tins as I have a lot of children.

Are they all cats?

I hate tuna in oil as it is stressful, splatters on clothes etc. Too.

Brine or water is so much better.

I think whilst you are probably being a bit U I would be very annoyed at being called a snowflake.

I love tinned tuna and mackerel, DH likes sardines in tomato sauce, we open our own tin to avoid guilt over splatter.

Tinty I had forgotten Mum's cat went wild like yours for tinned tuna.

I think yanbu I quite simply cannot find tin openers that work properly these days, they are too clever and fangled

I buy the old fashioned butterfly openers, they're less than a quid in asda and the butterfly bit comes in many colours. I now have a stash because I am like that and one day they may no longer be made and i will own them all

DS uses a colander for straining tuna and this makes it so much easier.

groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-utensils-food-preparation/george-home-metal-butterfly-can-opener/1000063470404

There 50p and pretty for a can opener. And they work, after the probably hundreds I have spent on new fangled can openers, I find the 50p ones work so much better.

Tuna is stinky but I love it so I take the hit on opening cans. Still the no drain cans are better.

feel like I said cans day too much in this post

Tuna is so bleedin expensive these days!!

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Thanks, unfortunately I live nowhere near as Asda.

Is this in Glasgow, or somesuch benighted Place? Hilarious

I want a tuna sandwich now.

I don’t find it stressful but tuna in oil is rank.

Become vegetarian- problem solved 😀

You should be stockpiling that tuna you know, not scoffing it before Brexit. Unless you are planning to store it as excess body weight.

YABVVVU to say tuna in oil tastes better than tuna in water.

Old school tin opener
www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-butterfly-tin-opener/p/0296440

Threads like this are why I so love MN

Well apparently this is a Real Problem.

Amazing.

I wear washing up gloves to do my tuna, so no oily tuna on my hands. Princes do a good tin with an easy to use ring pull.

@iklboo thanks for the hint re: corned beef.

OP - could try one of those fancy electric tin openers if you have to regularly eat tuna? Failing that don't make anything with tuna and when it's your partners turn to cook leave the tuna to him.

*Whispers

I'm really enjoying the posts from posters who are taking the OP Utterly Seriously.

I'm in the 'tuna in oil is nicer than tuna in spring water' camp.

And yes, opening tins of tuna is one of those jobs you just have to push through.

No I am not a cat.
I needed four tins as I have a lot of children.

And you live in a shoe right?

YABU. Opening tuna is nothing compared to opening those sardine tins with those weird key things. Have never managed to get one past the half way point and then have to excavate the inside of a tin with a fork and tease out the sardines bit by bit. It left me with PTSD (post traumatic sardine disorder).

Blimey Op, are you called Sue with so many children you need four tins of tuna?

When I saw this I just knew MN would disapprove of tuna in oil..
I prefer oil as it stops it from tasting dry. Also because sometimes the cat gets the scrapings from the tin and the salted version wouldn't be good for him.
Cat can hear a can of tuna being opened from a mile away. He can also not distinguish between cans of tuna and other cans, so comes scuttling into the kitchen if I open a tin of tomatoes.

YANBU I detest doing it too. But now I pay that little bit more to buy the no drain tuna with the ring pull. Godsend!

Use the Princess No Drain tuna in spring water, no mess, has a ring pull but you can wear a pair of marigolds if it's that bad.