A coffee can is a food grade material.  It is tin plated, but it is food grade tin, not standard galvanized like a pipe or screen wire.  Campers have used coffee cans for decades as cooking pots.  I'll bet every mid-twentieth century hobo who ever cooked over a jungle fire ate stew out of a coffee pot.

mcneely

---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> in case anyone doesn't know..
> galvanized metal..
> when heated enough emits a deadly poison.
>
> when welding on galvanized metal....it's very important to not breath the
> fumes.
> This is also why galvanized stove pipe is never used indoors.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Tin-can westy toaster
>
>
> > At 07:38 PM 1/7/2012, Tom Hargrave wrote:
> >>All I can say is - yummy, galvanized toast....
> >
> > Tin-plated, please.  This is food-grade material.
> >
> > :-)
> > d

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David McNeely