If the pressure was actually “released”, it would be impossible. Deep pockets nuisance lawsuit stuff.
I have never used an electric one. I have five sizes of the regular ones I use all the time.
Next time you fly, try to open the exit door in flight. Don’t work like that.
Did she leave the release valve open the whole time? If not, pressure can re-build.
Instapot is basically foolproof. Agree, slip & fall lawsuit.
I’ve used pressure cookers for cooking and canning for 40 plus years. Watched my mother and grandmother use them 25 years before that. Never had a single accident. Common sense prevents that.
Most pressure cookers have a weight type system to vent steam. you can release the pressure by slightly tilting the weight. Once the pressure is gone (assuming you turned off the heat in the process) there will be no way to have the contents explode.
I love to make Red Beans with a ham bone in a large pressure cooker. Cooks in less than an hour and the beans are tender but firm. Add some green chili’s and you have something special.
Her pressure cooker appears to be off brand. I would only trust Instant Pot. Anything else cheaper, you’re asking for trouble.
She probably lied.
My mother had a canning pressure cooker blow up. She had severe burns and went into shock. Thought she would never touch one again, but the next season she was back at it. She said she tried to help the pressure release along. Just a dumb thing to do. She had worked with pressure canner for years.
I have an electric one I use all the time. There is no way to demo the lid if there’s pressure
I call shenanigans
I don’t mess with those at all.
To me, most pressure cookers are akin to using stick shift cars. If you already know what you’re doing, fine.
If you are an adult and just now learning to use one, be really careful. Maybe just don’t use one if given a choice.
We have one very similar to the one pictured. Almost never use it.
But I made some KC ribs in it last night. adding the buildup time, cook time, cool down it’s about 45+ minutes.
I helped the release along by turning the release valve. Cracking it caused pressure release but not all. Opening it all the way released almost all, cracking the lid still gave me a blast of steam. I was prepared for it though.
My wife is afraid of it. Shouldn’t have shown her the pictures, just reinforced her fear.
There is no thing such as an accident. There are only incidents.
Steam will burn the heck out of you and it would only takes 1-2 lbs of pressure for the steam to come flying out. I don’t know how the locking mechanism works on those things. Could it be released with a couple pounds of pressure still in it?
At that point, it becomes a matter of where your arms and face are. If dealing with something that has potential for pressure, you have to be careful. Quick reflexes help a little to.
I don’t know anything about the newer electric pressure cookers. I have a basic pressure canner and it works just like the basic pressure cookers. You rotate the whole lid to unlock it. Of course you don’t do that until it’s cooled down and the pressure is gone. Mine’s got the weight on top and after pressure stops coming out from under the weight, you can carefully take it off, tilting the top towards you so that any steam goes away from you.
One thing that’s in the instructions even with a canner is to inspect the venting systems for clogs. Yo also can’t put too much stuff in them or those vents will get clogged quick. Moving it around with stuff in it will make things slosh around and get up in the vent.
At any rate, cooking with heat is something you need to pay attention when doing and to take safety seriously. Some really basic middle school level understanding of physics helps too.
Time to Ban Pressure Cookers, although that should have done that after the Boston Bombings.
We can’t have private ownership of these dangerous implements of death in a Civil Society.
Rather than electronic signals, place the pressure cooker in the sink and slowly run cold water over the top until you hear or see the pressure release. Always worked. That is how my parents did it long before there was anything to beep, and is how I often have done it.