In the movie, “Live and Let Die”, when they take Bond to the Crockadile/Aligator farm, the dude with the claw hand opens a 55GALLON DRUM OF CHICKEN!! I say no way. The cooking process would require probably 4 hours at 275f to be safe.
The largest retorting I’ve ever done was cream-style corn in a 1 gallon can. In the service, I used to see coffee come in maybe 20lbs, cans, but they were kind of square, and probably were not sent through a continuous cooker or retort.
What is the largest can of food made?
Does “food” include liquids? Milk is transported in big tank trucks similar to the ones used for oil or gasoline, and that tank is really just a sort of very large can.
Fats, oils, wine, fruit juices can also come in bulk tankers either trucked or on rail.
Bulk iso-tanks
I worked for a business that traded tallow in isotanks.
The 22MT isotanks were filled when the tallow was molten, allowed to cool and then shipped. For the customer to empty them required then to be reheated.
I’d think that for something to count as a “can” it would need to be sterilized and hermetically sealed. I’m not sure tanker trucks count.
Let me re-define as: hermetically sealed container, containing an “eat right out the mf-ing can” food, like chocolate pudding, or heat like ‘skettios or baked beans(but I’ve eaten them both right-out the mf-in’ can). Food. I doubt I’d take a bowl of tallow, hot, or right out the mf-in’ can. Wine is a different story.
No kegs.
A “distributable” container. Anything larger than 1 US Gal?
GourmetSleuth Standard U.S. Can Sizes.
Largest listed is 13 cups, not quite a gallon.
That chicken-in-a-drum, as I remember it, was raw.
I’ve worked in institutional kitchens where we prepared meals for a couple of thousand people. Above a certain size, food comes in sealed plastic drums. I think there may be a limit on how big a metal can will be.
Skim milk powder, dried egg powder, soup powders, fruit pulp, syrups, vegetables esp tomatos and other food ingredients will come in 200l/44 Imp gallon/55 US gallon drums. All in hermitically vacuum sealed in sterilised containers.
Heat & serve? Definitely not. Storage and transport only. But edible out of the drum, yes.
Mind you if you are going to feed crocodiles on chicken from of a drum, why would you need to heat it anyway?
While the #10 can (13 cup size mentioned above) is the standard of the food service industry, mustards and pickles are often available in a larger size can not listed on that page. However, in my culinary career, I have never seen or heard of a larger can, nor have I seen other food products packed in that larger size can. I can not find the name of that can size either, but I’m sure it has a name (I want to say #15, but that is a WAG)
What the heck are “'skettios”?
