Canned Food Storage: A Cautionary Tale

I wanted to share an issue I had with my canned food storage, in the hopes of preventing anyone else suffering the same type of disaster.

Some years ago, I bought a can roller shelf unit to store a mix of dried storage foods, and cans from the local cannery. It was working well, but apparently one of the cans (plums) had a fault in it. I had read about not using bulging cans, but had not realised that the pressure inside can actually build up enough that the can will burst. Which leaves you with a pressurised can spraying its contents out onto everything nearby.

This is the point at whch the downside of the shelving unit became apparent - it is an open unit, so the spray from the can reached the rows above, and then proceeded to drip onto everything below. The cleanup has been horrendous.

I would recommend anyone with open shelving like this to cover shelves so that any spills etc. are contained to a small area. If you have a roller unit like mine, you might have to get creative and do something like tape black plastic underneath the rows.

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Canned Food Storage: A Cautionary Tale