Half tin of baked beans been left in fridge overnight - can I eat it today?

[Holymoly321]

DH is ALWAYS doing this, leaving half a tin of baked beans in the fridge - am tired of chucking them out. Can they still be eaten the next day?

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I can testify that they can be eaten for weeks afterwards, and no one dies.

I always thought you couldn't leave open tins in the fridge... or am I just showing my age?...

I always do it. I would eat them upto 3 days later too.

ditto! ie i do this all the time too.

i havent died yet

I only eat days old half full tins of beans

Tins used to be poisonous? What's that all about then?

i'd eat it.

I think tins used to contain lead or some other toxic metal, so if they were bent or crushed you'd have it seeping into your food... Or so they believed. I don't know about now.

But yes! Eat the beans!

tyes, of course, why wouldn't you?

I thought the aluminium leaches into the food and that's why you should empty the food into a different, non metallic container?

Maybe the tins don't do that anymore but they are aluminium aren't they or are they now coated with something?

I always transfer them too a bowl (DP used to be a chef and says he was not allowed to keep things in tins but I don't know why).

BUT my mum always used to leave them in teh tin.

Good for a recommended 3 days I think...

yes, eat them, cold from fridge, lovely!

eeewww. heat them up first!

they're rank when they're cold.

I think it's because the metal from the can can oxidise and transfer to the food. But cans are made from steel aren't they so it's only a bit of rust and surely not that much different from taking an iron tablet?

lol. I think there's a typo in this thread title isn't there? It should be half tin baked beans left in fridge over a week...

(answer - if there's no mould in it, it's OK. might taste funny though)

"Tin cans

When you have opened a can of food and you're not using all the food straight away, empty the food into a bowl, or other container, and put it in the fridge.

Don't store food in an opened tin can, or re-use empty cans to cook or store food. This is because when a can has been opened and the food is open to the air, the tin may transfer more quickly to the can's contents.

This advice doesn't apply to foods sold in cans with resealable lids, such as golden syrup and cocoa. "

From the governments website so it must be true

cans are still made of tin are they? I thought they were steel/iron.

yes - i dodid worse as a student too