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I was in the house the day that my mom's old pressure cooker blew. It was an old one with no pressure relief pop-off on it. The weight on the top of it bounced off a number walls and ended up in another room. The kitchen was a mess, and while my mom cleaned up, I retrieved the weight from the other room ( where I was when it blew) and hid it from her. I purchased for her, her first Crock Pot. I told her this is what everybody is doing now (in the 70's), and it will get stuff very tender also! She went on to wear out many slow cookers, never buying another pressure cooker.

I like pressure cooking, myself, and plan on buying my wife a modern pressure cooker, w/ pop-off valve.

I do still have all the parts and pieces of my mom's old time cooker :)

If it wasn’t so dangerous ... it would be funny. to this day I HATE things under pressure.

I’m a physicist by training and if people knew what just 5lbs above atmospheric is capabale of .....

An old farm boy ... tire shops used to come out to the farm and put new tires on dual wheel sets for then Big tractors 5020 John Deeres and large combines. (they are small now) To air them up, the tire guy would put a snap lock hose on the schraeder valve ... then go to the other side of the truck, eat lunch and take a snooze while the service truck/compressor (often a VW engine with 2cylinders pumping air and 2 cylinders firing) filled the tractor tire. We had a service guy killed when he failed to wake up in time. Blew him a way. Literally.

I am also a gun nut ... back to the pressure thing ... Does anyone have a clue what shootin +p loads on a 38 or 357 frame do for a revoler not rated??? Damn ... I shudder every time someone tells me don’t worry .. I do it all the time. Or that some hot shot is always bragging about reloading and reloading hot ....

but alsas .. I digress .... happens a lot in my old age .... bear with me please...

But fortuantely this old pressure cooker does have a pop off valve, and yes, The first thing I did was tried it out along with a brand new seal in a safe bench/cage area in the garage. Works dandy.