Rip cans are traditional. It's part of the corned beef experience. Have stocked up for Brexit and will withstand a ten year siege. You can't say that for plastic when your fridge goes down in a power cut.

the corned beef tin opening saga is only equalled by trying the ring pull on a small tin of anchovies . all is well until the final little tug on the lid which jerks the tin to deposit all of the oil within onto your shirt which will never come out . i think they do it on purpose .

Foinavon is correct, as tin openers will no longer in the event of No Deal.

How many would guess that the very best Corned Beef Hash recipe can be found on the Guardian Newspaper website.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/feb/05/how-to-cook-perfect-corned-beef-hash-recipe

I like my wife's version. The corned beef is fried with chopped onions, tomatoes and sweet peppers and seasoned with Bajan pepper sauce (the yellow one made from mustard and hot peppers). Served on a bed of freshly boiled rice.

Corned beef hash....mash. corned beef (diced )  softy fried onions, chopped parsley.,,twist of pepper... shaped into potato cakes and shallow fried....served with baked beans and crusty bread.  Cowboy supper.....yeee haaaa

The blood free solution.

All you need is a metalworkers vice bolted to a workbench and a decent hacksaw.

Clamp the tin in the vice and simply saw the top off the tin with the hacksaw, the fat in the meat will lubricate the saw helping the operation no end.

It's only common sense when you think about it.

impossible - DONT fry the corned beef, remember it is already "cooked".  Start with the Guardian recipe below and then adapt from there if you want to. The key is to put the whole lot under the grill to brown.

Re baked beans, a whole tin with five rashers of smoked decent butchers streaky bacon (grilled and roughly chopped, not diced) on a couple of thick slices of toasted buttered sourdough (yes I know, poncy sourdough) is awesome. AND use one of those (Waitrose, Tesco and elsewhere) very salty Normandy butters on the bread. Makes all the difference.

Bully beef!

Talking of baked beans, I find the small tins of beans which are 3 for £1 in Poundland (£1.70 Sainsbury's) are a great snack eaten cold straight out of the tin.  About 150 calories.

Why the hell isn't there vegetarian option?

Quorned beef?

lfc said 'not a single British soldier starved to death , that’s all you need to know'

They threw all the tins at the Germans to incapacitate them then nicked their supplies.

Grill the corn beef but not fry. I used to do that with an old fashion but efficient grill - the one with a lever for adjusting the naked flame; they were marvellous for grilling fish (butterfly) and pieces of chicken eg legs or thighs.

Studies have shown vegetarians have a higher IQ than meat eaters: Pure veggie propaganda, I think,...the gelatin from the bones is intelligence enhancing, I've been told.

There really ought to be a Chit-Chat Kitchen spot on one of the racing channels.

Each tea-time the gap between the afternoon and evening racing would feature one punter trying to prepare a wholesome and nutritious meal in the five-minute gap between the bumper in Ireland and the opener at Wolverhampton.

One evening we'd see a man scooping out a cold tin of Poundland baked beans, as he explains how laying that last winner at 1,000 was actually a good bet in the long term, as it definitely looked beat to him. And the next evening we could watch a punter phoning up for a takeaway while holding the broken key from a corned beef tin, then sticking his case fifty on Barcelona in the Champions League at 1.16 to pay for it.

I'd have a careful look at the list of ingredients before consuming dumplings that are 'ruski'.

Keep an eye out for polonium and novichok for a start.

Pierog Polski may well be delicious and pasty-like. But Pierog Ruski ...?

"Da! Ve visit de Tesco Salisbury for to see famous 340-gramme impossible-to-open tin corned beef. Also visit Vorld Foods aisle for to contaminate dumpling vid de novichok. Vhoops!"

are kulcher is being undermined by these kukhri programmes (yes I nose what a kukhri iz