[Sca-cooks] Re: Caramel Laura Secord

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach johnna holloway:
>This is not recommended. Apparently people
>have been burned trying this.

I can vouch for this at second-hand. My father had to actively and
vehemently refuse a Purple Heart from the U.S. Army when, after
having survived unscathed on Utah Beach while men around him were
being torn to pieces, he steam-scalded his hand on a can of beans.
His commanding officer said he was there cooking beans because of
enemy action, therefore he was wounded in action. He refused and said
he would be ashamed to meet the ghosts of the men that had died, with
such a medal.

Looking at this condensed milk question from a purely scientific
point of view, I'm on the "open the can first" side. Think of it this
way. You're reducing the milk be heating and evaporating, no? Where
is the steam supposed to go if you don't open the can? Where is the
water that you're trying to remove going to go? Of course you can
punch a hole, but then of course you also run the risk of a dangerous
jet of steam instead of an explosion.

Open the blankety-blankin'  can! ;-)

Adamantius