eli5: Why are soup/food cans so much more robust than beverage cans, even though both cans are made to withstand the pressure of being stacked vertically for shipping and storage?

Question

Crushing a soda can is easy, crushing a soup can is way harder. The soup cans are also often corrugated. What explains the difference?

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Answer 1

The strength of soup cans comes from being thicker ridged steel. Beverage cans are extremely thin aluminium as there’s enough pressure on the inside to keep them sturdy.

Basically, try crushing a sealed beverage can. That’s the “real” strength manufacturers worry about.