Tuna al ha'esh | Imamother

lk1234

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 4:24 am

My son keeps talking about tuna al ha'esh. What is that? Something to do with cooking a can of tuna outside? I can't find anything on google. Anyone know what this is and have a recipe?

potato

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 4:33 am

Basically lighting a can of tuna on fire. Put like a napkin on top of a can of tuna in oil light it. Thats it, its what they do in the army

juggling

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 4:50 am

https://lifehacker.com/smoke-a.....51819

Israeli little boys think it's the coolest thing ever.

😂😂😂

a2z

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 4:53 am

juggling wrote:

https://lifehacker.com/smoke-a-can-of-tuna-with-toilet-paper-1547351819

Israeli little boys think it's the coolest thing ever.

😂😂😂

And big ones and tattys and abbas LOL

Wolfsbane

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:09 am

I did it a couple of times in sem and didn't find that it changed the taste so much. It was fun, though.

Reality

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:18 am

Wolfsbane wrote:

I did it a couple of times in sem and didn't find that it changed the taste so much. It was fun, though.

Then you didn't do it right, lol! It changes the taste a lot. It makes meh canned tuna into a delicacy.

SuperWify

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:22 am

And here my mouth was watering for nice grilled tuna steak when I saw your caption.

Wolfsbane

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:24 am

Reality wrote:

Then you didn't do it right, lol! It changes the taste a lot. It makes meh canned tuna into a delicacy.

What's the secret to doing it right? Or maybe my palette just isn't refined enough to appreciate it...

zoom

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:42 am

In following this....also thought it was tuna steak..yummm

How do you do this?

juggling

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:44 am

zoom wrote:

In following this....also thought it was tuna steak..yummm

How do you do this?

Just don't. Trust me.
Unless you have nothing else to eat and no stove.
Just don't.

a2z

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:10 am

You put tissues on top of a can of oil tuna, let it sop up the oil and then you light it.

theoneandonly

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:19 am

Wolfsbane wrote:

What's the secret to doing it right? Or maybe my palette just isn't refined enough to appreciate it...

You need to let it burn for long enough to actually get the smoked taste.
Use paper towels, not toilet paper that will dissolve right away.
Do it outdoors do your entire house won't reek of burned tuna forever.
(It tastes fine and slightly smokey, can't say it's amazing)

Reality

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:30 am

theoneandonly wrote:

This. I'm telling you after an amazing hike and eating it in the great outdoors, it's delicious!

cbsp

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:31 am

A story about a nes with a can of tuna cooked this way was in the TorahAnytimes newsletter for Parshas Vayishlach 5784:

Rabbi Shlomo Landau
The Can of Tuna
Early one morning, Yitzchak
Horowitz, an Israeli journal-
ist, was joining a particular
platoon as they davened Shacharis.
Fortunately, they even had a Sefer
Torah to make use of. As the To-
rah was laid to rest on a makeshift
bimah, one of the soldiers asked if
he could be called up for an aliyah
so he could recite the Ha’Gomel
blessing (recited in the aftermath
of being saved from a dangerous
situation).
After davening, the soldier ap-
proached Yitzchak Horowitz and
said, “You can’t believe how many
miracles we’ve experienced! But
here’s the one that I made the
blessing over.
“We were in the refugee camp
called Al-shati, located in northern
Gaza. As we sat there eating our
lunch of canned tuna, I did what
I had done so many times before.
Usually, these cans of tuna arefilled with oil, and the soldiers—not
during wartime—put a match to
the bottom of the can and it ends up
smoking the tuna. To anyone who
has been in the army, this is stan-
dard practice.
“But this one time when I put
the match to the can, the entire can
flared up. As I did so, one of my
friends began yelling out, ‘Put it
out! Put it out! There’s live ammu-
nition here!’ Panicking, I threw the
can of tuna as far as I could. It prob-
ably flew a hundred to two hundred
feet until, suddenly, we all heard a
huge explosion. My entire platoon
grabbed our guns and aimed it
straightaway at the sight of the ex-
plosion, opening fire. After a lull in
the shooting, a white flag emerged
from the ground. It was a terrorist
with his hands up in the air, surren-
dering himself. After he came up
from the ground, a whole bunch of
terrorists followed suit, raising theirhands and surrendering.
“The can of tuna had landed in-
side a hole that led to a tunnel,
where several terrorists were wait-
ing in ambush and planning to
pop up and open fire on the Israeli
soldiers. When the can of tuna fell
through the hole into the ground
and into the tunnel, the terror-
ists’ ammunition exploded, which
caused the huge noise. The terror-
ists in turn assumed that the Israe-
li soldiers were right above them
and had overtaken them, and they
chose to turn themselves over.”
Here, among many, many inci-
dents, Hashem saved the lives of
our Israeli soldiers in the most un-
expected and miraculous of ways.
Such a story is nothing other than
the unbelievable expression of
Hashem’s hand and Hashgacha
Pratis.

BadTichelDay

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:37 am

Miracles nonwithstanding, it's not exactly healthy. Tuna cans are not only metal, they also often have a plastic coating inside, aound the sides. That gets burned, too.
I keep telling my kids not to do it.

married1234

Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:57 am

Reality wrote:

This. I'm telling you after an amazing hike and eating it in the great outdoors, it's delicious!

Exactly! It was our go to in seminary after hikes. I haven’t done it since, but I’m smiling just remembering it