Do you drink the juice in canned tuna or canned fish?
It contains omega 3 and flavours.
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Canned Tuna Brine - Drink or Drain?
Balls on 10/10/2025 - 11:07
Last edited 10/10/2025 - 11:19 by 1 other user
Last edited 10/10/2025 - 11:19 by 1 other user
Poll Options
- 51I drink the brine/liquid
- 279I drain the brine/liquid
Comments
pole responses :(
yeah the tuna I buy is pole and line caught, too
My situation doesn't fit any of the pole responses :(
And you're not telling any porkies. Username almost checks out.
Who drinks the liquid!?
Psychopaths.
I don't, but voted to say that I do, as a joke
And who calls it juice ?
When in the throes of passion with my lovely wife, I stopped using the term lady juice as it kills the mood.
So, what's your new safe word?
BTW, don't talk with your mouth full.
The only people more unhinged are those who ask for pineapple on pizza.
Why is that wrong?
Same guy who probably likes "hot honey" or any other savory and sweet mix but just likes the bandwagon of hate for pineapple on pizza
Bbq sauce on anything is another example.
I think pineapple on pizza rocks, but I've simply accepted what that makes me.
Hot honey is awesome, so is anchovies, but I haven't tried broccoli on pizza so I cant say I like everything on pizza.
Mixed with pickle juice and tequila for a great cocktail.
And we're out to get you!
(I even drink the oil from tinned sardines)
Drain. I replace it with fresh extra virgin olive oil.
Can you please share some resources to confirm that?
You believe a company is serving up poision in a can for people to eat?
Source is: trust me bro!
<whispers in ear>do they look trustworthy?</whispers in ear>
Less meth lad.
hope u havent been drinking it
It's not kool aid.
Greeks use brine to preserve vine leaves for their dalmades.
So what if it tastes a little fishy?
No different than combining sashimi with dalmades and calling it Fusion Cusiene.
i collect it in a bottle and keep it refrigerated for those hot days
You'd be insane to not drink it.
You can mash the tuna with the liquid so it reabsorbs into it. It's full of healthy oils: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8EWriJdi2cg
I don't know why I never thought of doing this. It makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
Prefer canned salmon. Drain the liquid unless cooking something with the salmon, in which case you can use the liquid for flavour.
I collect it and when I have 500ml do an oil change on the push mower. Very versatile fluid.
Do you re-gap the spark plug if doing this?
Express post the plug to Uncle Ian to make sure it's done properly. He typically takes 6 months to return it but it's worth the wait for the
piecepeace of mind.
Wouldn't it be easier just to buy one with the correct gap?
Canned Tuna Brine - Drink or Drain?
Sell it on ebay…
That sounds fishy.
BTW, piracy is still illegal.
Piracy?
Jv mentioned selling something on ebay
Pirates sailed their ships in bays and other bodies of water.
Then, the other day, there was quite a long thread somewhere on the forum about digital piracy.
Many posters used euphemisms such as "sailing on the high seas" or talking like a pirate.
I was relying on double entendre perhaps, (or maybe just a few very bad puns), and thought that jv would also make that connection and maybe even find it a bit funny.
Why did you ask?
TIL some people actually drink that stuff!
It contains omega 3 and flavours.
Not necessarily good flavours
Save it for my coffee
Gen Z has left the chat
I bottle it and sell it as bath water. People are into it.
Belle Delphine, is that you?
True. Red Sea is full of it.
What crazy people buy soggy tuna in water? Oil is so much better
because the oil in most tuna cans is garbage
Tuna in engine oil or water. I'll take water.
The last can of tuna I had from John west (Yellowfin) actually tasted like engine oil probably would. Not making that mistake again
There's not much difference, canola oil was a marine engine oil. It was toxic (erucic acid), they figured out how to remove the toxin in the 80's and we've been eating it because it's cheap, yet still quite deadly in the long term.
Brine is salt water. You are not a tuna, so therefore you should not drink it.
Corned beef is literally beef injected with brine.
That's how they preserved a lot of stuff before they had fridges.
You also shouldn't drink corned beef…
True, but if you can eat it, there's no reason why you can't drink it.
@Muppet Detector: There are many reasons you shouldn't drink corned beef. I can't believe we are having this conversation :)
@rumblytangara: Like what?
Sure, you may need to purée it if you want to swallow without chewing, but?
Purée would probably eliminate most choking hazards too.
@rumblytangara: Nah, I can see a new gap in the dating app market. We've got Tinder and Grindr, now try Liquidiser! For those discerning partners who can't be bothered chewing, but you know for certain that they swallow.
Canned Tuna Brine - Drink or Drain?
BYO saline.
Health care is getting expensive.
Bro. Drain it.
Anyone drinking the brine straight up is a psychopath.
Agree. You couldn't be friends with someone who does that
Friends?
For our salvation we need to remove these people from the population. Like shoving them through a portal to another earth.
Your draining all the flavour and eating bland tuna. Your loss.
I’m talking about people who drink the brine straight, not the ones who just mix it with the tuna. If you drink it straight, I’m sorry, but you’re a psychopath. I don’t make the rules.
I have it on ice, refreshing during a balmy summer evening.
Who'd drink the brine out of what is essentially a tin of glorified cat food, let alone eat the cat food.
Yeesh.
Tuna in Springwater slightly drain so bread/cracker does not go soggy.
Tuna in Brine drain as too salty for me.
are you a cat
Cats like tuna in springwater, the homebrand is cheaper than the ripoff fancy little cat tins.
Yes they drink the liquid.
Cats don't like tuna in oil though.Sardines in a can are another cheap option for cats.
This i why I doom scroll Ozbargain instead of doom scrolling tiktok
This is where the real important issues are covered.
If you do drain the oil, don't put it down your sink waste - fatbergs really are a thing
I tried to watch that but it was too much for me!
Always drink the brine. It's basically free electrolytes.
Good for plants
Had a work colleague who always drained her tuna juice in the lunch room sink and never washed it out. Gross.
Not sure if you are talking metaphorically
Drink it. All that flavour. If you don't drink the juice, why are you eating the tuna? The juice is just supercharged tuna!
Its your tuna can juice…do whatever you want with it 🫡
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The answer depends on what am making with it…
Dolphin Milk on porpoise🐬
The juice is the second best part of tinned fish.
The best part is the bones, that perfect firm but yielding crunch.
Its made for finches, but humans can drink it too
I put it in my dogs bowl
I paid for it so I'm gonna drink every last drop!
I only get tuna in springwater and I drink the water.
Trying to not get additional salt in my diet for no reason so I avoid the brine version, and avoid the oil version for additional calories.
I'd rather add some mayo to springwater tuna than get tuna in oil.
I know the fancy tuna comes in oil and tastes great but the cost puts me off.
I always like my tuna in oil however all the brands out there use a vegetable oil blend which is garbage so I buy my tuna in spring water, give the water to my cats, which they love, and I then mix the tuna with a good quality Australian made EVOO. Happy cats, happy me.
Works surprisingly well as a lubricant
I prefer to drink Hamish and Andy's corn water.
For me - it depends on what food the Tuna is for.
The brine (or oil if in oil) is sometimes used as an ingredient for whatever I'm cooking/preparing. Any unused excess is discarded down the drained. I'm generally not 'drinking' the fluid though, but have sometimes in small amounts.
My situation doesn't fit any of the pole responses :(