what is good about chunk light tuna in oil?
who prefers chunk light over white albacore?
who prefers tuna in oil over water?
someone please explain it to me…
I prefer chunk light to white albacore. Mostly because it’s what I grew up with.
Tuna in oil is anathema, however…
Tuna in oil is nasty.
I remember Mother cooking casseroles with potato chips lining the pan.
Wet, oily, soggy…
Thanks for reminding me.
Your name is going on a list, pal.
Tuna is oil is far superior to tuna in water.
Otherwise, it’s like saying that lite beer is superior to real beer.
Giada de Laurentis can explain it to you:
Fusilli with Tuna and Tomato Sauce
The Fusilli recipie is especially good, and tastes wretched using the tuna-in-water.
Arrrgggh, I accidentally bought two cans of TiO when I wanted TiW. It makes a nasty, nasty tuna salad sadwich.
Huh. Once upon a time a long, long, loooooooong time ago, you couldn’t get tuna packed in water. It was all packed in oil.
(They should have an old fart smiley.)
interesting… so, Tuna in Oil is better for cooking… I still don’t get the choice for a sandwich…
me.
I don’t like fish at all now - but for a good two decades, the only kind of fish I would eat was chunk light tuna in water. (I don’t get the tuna in oil thing either). With mayonaisse. (That was also the only way I would eat mayo, too. Now, both seafood and weird egg foodstuff are gone from my life.)
I don’t get the oil thing though. That’s just weird. It’s like canned fruit in syrup.
Why not.
IMO, it tends to be more moist and flavorful no matter how you use it. I prefer the consistency of tuna in oil when mixed with mayonnaise. The oil seems to permeate the tuna better than water does.
Besides, isn’t it logical that if it is worse for you; it must taste better.
And this is the reason I will NOT eat tuna packed in water. Things were much better a long, long, loooooooong time ago.
We buy at lot of tuna in water in the ZipperFamily…and 2 or 3 times a year someone will grab the wrong can and we’ll all avoid making tuna salad for a long time because no one wants to go through the utter MESS of draining tuna in oil.
I was lamenting to my mom about how I’d just bought 4 cans of tuna, on sale, and they were all in oil. She said that “back in the day” when one was on Weight Watchers and wanted to eat tuna, you had to put the tuna in oil in your collander and rinse all the oil off.
Still messy and still a hassle (not to mention a good bit of tuna down the drain), but rinsing that oil off with water does help keep the tuna salad from turning into an oily mess in the fridge.
Have you considered a squirt of dish soap to remove the last bits of oil. It really improves the flavor of tuna in my opinion. As in a mouth full of soap is better than the taste of fish. Blahhh. 
I like tuna on crackers. Tuna in water (drained) is too dry. Tuna in oil is too… oily. So I drain the tuna in water, and stir in a tablespoon of olive oil. Juuuust right.
American chunk light tuna in oil is a different animal than Italian or Portuguese tonno canned in good olive oil. Mr. brown likes me to stop by the Portuguese market here in San Jose and pick him up some “Asomar” brand canned tuna. He drains it and eats it plain for lunch with Ak-Mak crackers and carrot sticks. I suppose it makes good tuna salad, too, but he likes it so much plain that he won’t let me have any for salad purposes.
Only if you have to find it in the dark.
I particularly like tuna in water because I can drain the water out and give it to my cat. She absolutely freaks out over it and it’s something I would normally just wash down the drain anyway.
I recently read that chunk light tuna has about a third of the mercury of albacore. So if you eat a lot of tuna, you should probably eat chunk light.
Tuna in water is bleh.
I’ll send you Mother’s recipe.