Don’t donate Frey bentos pies to food banks

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They need a special can opener to get into them

@stressedespresso , I took you at your word.

Yes, it is. It's a simple process:

1. Put entire sealed pie tin in heated oven
2. Leave for thirty minutes or until you hear a loud bang
3. Call your home insurer, sobbing
4. Use a chisel to extricate the remains of the delicious pie from the now-opened tin and enjoy!

Can you cook FB Pies in the microwave - obviously you would need to take them out of the metal tin and put them in a microwavable container first?

Well you could but it wouldn't be a pie as we know it unless it's a combination microwave with an oven setting.

Best chance would be to treat it as a steamed pudding - perhaps put in a covered dish with a bit of water or do in a pan after looking for instructions on steaming on the Internet. Although it's not the right kind of pastry for steaming so I'm not sure it would work.

That would make a good experiment for the Tiktok cooking enthusiasts to post a video of. How to steam a Fray Bentos pie into something edible if you don't have an oven in or can’t afford the cost of using it.

I'm not sure you'd have a lot left if you went to the effort of decanting the contents of the FB pie tin into an ordinary bowl.

Plus, the whole idea of them is that it's a 'dirty' convenient meal for when you don't want to go to any effort - taking the time to tend and coax all the bits of it into a porcelain dish just completely defeats the object!

An alternative to Fray Bentos pies is the Steak and Kidney pudding. This comes in a non metal container with a ring pull and can be heated in a microwave.

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Yes. You open it before you bake it, so the pastry puffs up and goes brown.
My Granny cooked one in the oven with just a hole punched in the top and it steamed and stayed soggy.
Could that be the issue?

The big exploding puffy pastry on the top can be a bit disappointing when you have your first one and realise that's all the pastry there is in the whole pie.

It's very much like a luxuriant bouffant syrup on a completely bald man's bonce.