{"id":2424,"date":"2016-03-19T07:35:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:29:16","slug":"billy-can-additions-for-baking-bread-or-steaming-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"Billy can additions for baking bread or steaming vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The modifications work fine, which I showed in this<\/a> topic.
\nBut inspired by people who bake bread in their billy cans, and to have the possibility to steam vegetables or fish, I bought some ikea ‘steamer insert’, made out of stainless steel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First I removed all the ‘scales’, simply using pliers, and pushing then when they are half opened, in an upwards motion.
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Next up, the handle thingy in the middle, which seems to have been spot welded to the bottom plate.
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But those welds are not that strong and with some horizontal wiggling, they come very quickly loose.
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Since I have a 12 cm diameter billy can, this thing does not fit, it is around 14 cm in diameter.
\nSo I cut of the outer edge with some metal scissors.
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The some sanding to make the edges smooth, and bending the bottom plate straight again.
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A perfect fit (almost, the cutting was not that easy to maintain a perfect circle)
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So here is my complete set.
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Under the lid, the original insert with the pot holder and a small spoon.
\nI still need to find a good use for that insert… So far I use it to give water to my dog.
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Below that is the newly added steamer insert.
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Below that my stainless steel cup with folding handles, and in the cup some spices and water purification tablets.
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All laid out.
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And here a test result, bread with dried berries, made on the fire \/ coals.
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The modifications work fine, which I showed in this topic. But inspired by people who bake bread in their billy cans, and to have the possibility to steam vegetables or fish, I bought some ikea ‘steamer insert’, made out of stainless steel. First I removed all the ‘scales’, simply using pliers, and pushing then when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diy-projects","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4635,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/4635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}