What would you use this for? / myLot

United Kingdom

January 14, 2022 5:39am CST

While exploring a small town not far away Little One and I stumbled across an antique/junk/bric-a-brac shop. And on top of a pile of boxes and cases in the far corner I found this tin. I was very pleased, it’s just what I wanted and a really good size - many tins that have come my way are just that little bit too small. This one is 25 cm (10 inches) across and 12 cm (5 inches) deep. Plenty of room for a largish cake plus any icing or decorations too! I took it to the till along with a couple of other purchases and the lady (who seemed to be standing in for the owner that day) remarked ‘What a pretty tin! What will you use it for?’ I replied ‘Cake’. She and another customer nearby both seemed surprised at this! What would you put in a cake tin? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457108)

• Switzerland

14 Jan 22

If not a cake, I would put homemade biscuits. May be they recycle those tins to store sewing things. I used a rectangular ones for my sewing things.

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

14 Jan 22

I used to have something like this and I used it for my thread and needles and buttons.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457108)

• Switzerland

14 Jan 22

@marlina

I also store my thread and needles in the rectangular one and I have buttons in a round one, smaller than this in the photo.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

@LadyDuck I have a round tin of buttons too, once upon a time it contained a Dundee cake (so it says) but that was long, long ago - it is the same tin my mother inherited from her mother!

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

14 Jan 22

Cakes are too big for such a small tin.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69416)

• Germany

14 Jan 22

@Fleura You could have included the size in the post. I wanted to ask about it. Thanks for thinking of centimeters as well!

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

@MALUSE Sorry, I will add that now, and yes I should have put a cake beside the tin in the photo too really! Here it is now.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

It's 25 cm (10 inches) across and 12 cm (5 inches) deep. A good size for a cake baked in an 8 inch tin, and it means there's enough space that any icing or decoration also fits and doesn't get smeared!

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Always smiling

@allknowing (130070)

• India

15 Jan 22

I would use it for putting chocolates. Cakes go in the fridge that I steam each time we want to eat it.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (130070)

• India

16 Jan 22

@Fleura Steaming gets back its moisture

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

16 Jan 22

@allknowing i will try that if one gets too dry, thanks!

Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

15 Jan 22

Those are a different type. If you put our regular type of cake in the fridge it goes dry and rubbery.

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@DaddyEvil (137145)

• United States

14 Jan 22

That looks like a tin that some cookies at Christmas might come in. I've never seen a cake come in a tin like that. When I still bothered to make fudge and candy as Christmas gifts for friends, I bought tins like that to put those in for presents. But I haven't done that in ten or fifteen years.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

It's quite big - 10 inches across and 5 deep. It means a cake made in an 8 inch cake tin will fit inside comfortably, and the lid seals really snugly so it will keep the cake from drying out.

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@DaddyEvil (137145)

• United States

14 Jan 22

@PhredWreck I never liked fruitcakes so never paid attention to them.

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@DaddyEvil (137145)

• United States

14 Jan 22

@Fleura Yeah, that's deeper than the ones I bought to give as Christmas gifts. Most of them were 3 1/2 inches deep.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12606)

• Ireland

14 Jan 22

@fleura That’s exactly what my wife’s looking for - a tin that won’t squash the icing on her cakes. And pretty with it. ( the tin and my wife both to be clear)

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

They are not easy to come by are they?

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203454)

• Nashville, Tennessee

14 Jan 22

Cookies probably. A nice tin.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

It's pretty isn't it? And a lovely deep gold colour inside too.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203454)

• Nashville, Tennessee

15 Jan 22

@Fleura Yes it is very pretty.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16520)

• China

14 Jan 22

Judging from the pictures on the tin,maybe It is used to hold snacks eaten while drink coffee.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29075)

• United Kingdom

14 Jan 22

I would have thought it was a fairly typical cake tin (for storing cake so it doesn't go dry). That's why I was rather puzzled when people seemed surprised that I was going to put cake in it!

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (111033)

• El Paso, Texas

15 Jan 22

It always depends on the tin. I have quite a few mostly rectangular or square in which I have stored the negatives of all the pictures I took before digital gadgets came along.

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