Tin Can Fry Pan!

hello welcome to Waypoint survival today I want to show you how to make a tin can frypan stay tuned so for this project you're going to need one can this is a number 10 can and this one just had green beans in it it didn't cost a whole lot of money and put the green beans in another container using for cooking later and then using a safety can opener cut off the top so you don't have any sharp edges because we're gonna use this lid and we're gonna make sure that this doesn't have any sharp edges for when we're working on our project next you're going to need some simple tools just a drill although you could use a nail you also will need some pop rivets and of course the bit here is size to fit the pop rivets you're gonna need some kind of tin snips pair of pliers a sharpie and a pop rivet setter so the first thing we're going to do after removing the lid and the label we're going to identify where the seam is because we want to make sure that we don't compromise that seam and what we're going to do then is gonna take our sharpie here this is an industrial sharpie and we're just going to mark where these ribs are going to go one up from the bottom and we're going to start here so we're not going to use the very bottom rib and I'll show you why in a little bit so the first thing we're gonna do is we're going to take and we're going to draw a relatively straight line down this way now you can use whatever you want ruler a stick anything that's relatively straight will work and we want to make this about that wide so again it's not not rocket science we're just trying to gauge about how wide it should be and we're coming down so that we have two marks like that we're going to do on the other side exactly opposite now that we have both sides marked out going to take the sharpie you don't have to do this but it will help you stay on course and we're just going to mark a line not over cross these lines we just made but on either side of it just following that second rib until we get something that looks like this next we take our tin snips or metal cutting shears what do you have I like these are made by Fiskars and they work really well and we're just going to cut each of these out following that relatively straight line this does not have to be perfect you just want to be careful you don't cut yourself you may want to lose use gloves I'll go ahead and cut these out and I'll get back with you now that we have these to cut out we now need to follow the black line that we made around the second rib and cut this section off this will be discarded work from both sides if it helps you or you can just cut straight across all right so we do not need that and that will be discarded okay now what we have is we have something that looks like like this so what we're gonna do I'm going to take these two sides here and we're going to roll them just like this and again being very careful because these edges are sharp what we're gonna do is we're gonna roll it around and this is actually fairly easy to do until we have something that looks like that I'm gonna do it on both sides so we end up with something like this now at this point if you want to make sure that you have enough of this metal here that rolls around that it connects to the top here because that is where we're going to put our rivet so using the drill and very carefully making sure that we don't you know drill a finger and you could do this with a nail also we want to go ahead and put a hole in here and if you wish it makes it easier for you you could put it on the edge of something I'm using this piece of a log here and you have that one hole once we get that done makes a lot easier for the second one as it works as a guide and now we just know where our hole is gonna be we have it marked right there put it again on the edge of the stump put our hole in so now we have one here one here we're gonna do that to both sides okay so now that we have the holes drilled on both sides as you can see here we take our pop rivets and the pop rivet setter insert it like so and go through both of these holes holding it very carefully trying to keep it tight and squeeze and there's one and there we go so now we have these fastened on and it looks something like this you can shape these and make them as round as you wish but what we want is we want them off to the side so that it looks like this next using our snips and remember we left one rib here on the can we're going to start here at the handle and we're gonna sniff just real small pieces all the way down to the middle of that rib all the way around just like that once we get all of our our little cuts made all the way around we're then going to take the pliers and very carefully we're going to start to fold these tabs down I'm going to fold them all the way around and then we're going to crimp them and again you want to be careful with this you don't want to cut yourself but once you get them down partway you can actually use your thumb to push them over so you can use the pliers to get it started and then finish by using a thumb if you have the finger strength to do that and then you can go back with the pliers and apply a full crimp now also if you're really careful and you don't want to use the pliers you can just use fingers to do this but it's a little more dangerous my hands I work with them a lot so they're kind of toughen to have a lot of calluses but you can bend this over by hand and then finish it off with the pliers if you would like alright so now that that's all the way around like that we're gonna take the pliers and we're just going to go all around real carefully like this all right and so what that does is that gives us a relatively safe edge now there's gonna be some little points here and there and you could file those off a little bit with a file if you wish but for the most part it's not real sharp it's not going to cut you using it now we go to our lid and as you can see it doesn't really want to fit on there very good because of these handles and so what we're going to do is we're going to kind of test fit it figure out where we want it and then we're going to take the sharpie and we're going to mark it a little wider than our handles using the snips go ahead and cut this in just a little ways not a lot but just enough for us to bend it over then using your fingers or the pliers wherever you wish go ahead bend that in finish crimping it down with the pliers looks like that and now we have a lid that will fit on there and this is very useful of course to keep ashes out and anything else you don't have to make the slits this big you can make them actually smaller if you wish all right the next step is we need to go and put this in a fire and we need to burn out all of the plastic BPA coating before we go on to the next stage and show you how this how this all comes together stay tuned we're not done there's some more cool stuff about this pan all right so get a good fire going then you want to place your pan right in the flames as well as the lid use the multi-tool here it's gonna put it in here we're trying to burn off all of that plastic that's inside because we don't want that in our food and you can see that it's starting to brown and actually starting to burn off right around that edge and we want that whole thing to burn we do not want any plastic left inside of the container so another thing you'll notice as this burns off right over in that section you can see it's getting much lighter right over in that area and we want the whole pan to look like that that means we're down to metal and all of the coating is burned off now you can see it's almost all burned off except for just a little in the middle part there and it is rapidly disappearing as the pan heats up and as it burns off the remainder of what's left of that plastic residue now that it is sufficiently cooled off where we can handle it and of course we have the top here something you can do that makes us a little bit more useful using a piece of wood here find the approximate Center it doesn't have to be absolute perfect you can use your awl or the drill if you wish but all we're going to do is put just a little hole right in the center of this pan next take a small piece of wood here and I just round it off the top and put a little hole in it and then you need a small screw this happens to be Philips head what we're gonna do is gonna come up through this hole here we made inside and we're gonna fasten this on here so our lid has a handler we have this now I did go ahead and refold these is they made the slots a little too big the first time all right so now it fits on there perfectly and we have a nice little pot with a lid all right we got to wash this out let's cook something I have a couple of tips that I want to show you how this works okay so now that we have our pan washed out ready to go I'm going to take some olive oil and we're going to pour a fair amount into this pan I want plenty okay I don't want to go stingy on my olive oil because remember this is an uncoded pan I'm going to take my finger and I'm going to spread this around the bottom make sure it's thoroughly coated everywhere and all the ribs and also up around the edges taking care of course not to cut myself next we're going to take a couple of eggs a little egg carrier here just like that okay now how do we put this on the fire well you're gonna need a couple of sticks I've been using this to stir the fire with and all we're gonna do is I'm going to take and we're gonna stick them in both sides and cross the back just like this then we can hold it with one hand and this makes our frying pan handle we're gonna set it onto our Colts just like this move the sticks okay you can see our eggs are starting to fry in our tin can fry pan we're gonna put the lid on there help keep any ashes out of it and let it do its thing check on it looking pretty good we've got a hand carved spatula here it's gonna look up under here see how this is doing oh let's frying up real nice not sticking to the bottom of the pan go ahead and divide them here in half flip it here in just a little bit perfect you can see how well it's working oh it looks good it's done nothing sticking to the bottom like it's supposed to let's go ahead and pull it off the fire there you go well we're ready to eat really anything about this tin can frypan is that it's very lightweight it's cheap it's made from recycled items it weighs 5.9 ounces which is just a little heavier than my titanium frying pan my titanium frying pan weighs five point three ounces without a lid this one with the lid five point nine so very very lightweight extremely easy to use not that hard to make and when you use oil in it your cooking frying baking whatever it doesn't stick to the bottom it works great so let's let's try your eggs and see see how they taste perfect a hobo couldn't want any better hmm as you can see nothing stuck to the bottom of the pan it fits nicely in a ziplock bag so lightweight carrying everything is very cheap and if you would happen to tear it up or burn it out then you could always easily make another one I would recommend just keeping some oil in it and that will make it last a long time and will keep it from burning out but you should get a lot of meals out of something like this this is James bender for Waypoint survival if you like this video please give it a thumbs up also make sure and check out the links in the description box below and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to the channel we'd really appreciate it and when you do subscribe make sure and press that Bell button so the Yuka stay notified of all of our upcoming videos and will talk to you next time [Music] [Music]

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Length: 16min 51sec (1011 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 03 2020