Depression Era cookware from tin cans

[RB Rooson]

As a youth, I remember my mother telling about how her mother and father were so poor that they made pots, pans, plates, cups, cookers, about anything you could think of out of used tin cans?
 
Has anyone else ever heard of this or experienced it?  Better yet, do yo have any photos or examples?
 
I have always been fascinated by what knowledge has been forgotten and what people have done to "make do"!!!

[SHOOTALL]

alot of folks punch holes at the rim of # 10 cans , use a wire to hang over a fite to boil water , cook suop and stew. Some cook stew in a paper bag .

[Cornbelt]

I had a coffee pot made out of a large peach can at one time. Got tired of being clumbsy and breaking the glass pot. The original handle was put on w/zip strips. It wasn't pretty, but it outlasted the rest and took a lot of abuse.

[Hooker]

I still use my grandmother's Griswold skillet in fact I cook my breakfast in it every morning. It's marked Erie so that puts its manufacture prior to 1909.
There's been a lot good eating and love spooned out of that old pan. I do remember Granmaw and Momma both saving their bacon grease in an old coffee can.

Pat

[spooked]

In the latter '60's moved over the weekend for a job some 300 mi., wife packed enough to "get us By" til we could return for all of our meager possessions.
when we unpacked we noticed she had forgot coffeepot, saucepots, cups,etc. although some silverware made it. We used coffee and juice cans, along with the little sauce( cup sized) cans, for a whole month till i could return and move the rest of our things. You can do a lot to 'em with a good knife or tin snips, along with a pair of pliers. If you have access to a solder iron you can get fancy with 'em.

[keith44]

I've heated soup in cans, and made coffee in cans, but do not recommend the practice.  The cans we have today are actually plastic lined and mostly aluminum.
 

[sidewinder319]

Eating out of tin cans is an old and honored tradition among men who have offended women.

[Pat/Rick]

Used a coffee can for cooking when I started overnight hiking trips in the sixties. Worked well and was a piece(s) of gear I didn't have to buy. Mostly used the freeze dried stuff so just heated water, but plenty of dried foods was cooked in them as well. Cut the tops down on a large coffee can or a ham can, fasten a handle and you have a small skillet. 
 
Of course, I've "cooked" my share of meals in "C" ration cans. Mmmmm  seerats.

[pastorp]

Some of the old indians I live with used to cut the top out of a 5gal gas can. When the tide was out they dug clams & cockels and picked crabs out of the seaweed. Put that in the pot along with anything else that crawled or squirted + a little seawater and set it to boil on the fire.    When it was done they dumped the contents on a flat rock and the table was set..  
 
Regards,

[sidewinder319]

I think I have eat in that sea food joint.