View Single Post
  #8 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
jmcquown[_2_] jmcquown[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 36,804
Default Another can opener question

On 12/15/2015 1:23 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2015-12-15, isw > wrote:
>> If a can has something thick or gloppy inside (Campbell's Cream of
>> Tomato Soup, for example) and has a pull-tab opening top (Campbell's
>> again), getting the stuff out is a real pain because of the wide rim
>> that you have to work around while hoping not to cut your rubber spatula
>> to shreds on the sharp edge.

>
> While I tend to agree, don't most of those "gloppy" soups require
> further liquid, like water or milk? Put the liquid in the can and
> slosh it around to clean out the rest of the gloop out.
>
> nb
>

Yup. Or use a metal spoon rather than a rubber spatula.

Jill