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Pressure Cooker accident?
Facebook post ^ | An American in Turkiye

Posted on 11/17/2018 8:20:56 AM PST by An American in Turkiye

Saw this on Facebook. Apologies in advance to anyone who cannot open it. Basically, a woman waited until her pressure cooker beeped, indicating that it was off. She released the pressure, waited at least 25 minutes, turned the lid from lock to unlock and the lid apparently shot up and soup scalded her. It’s pretty harrowing, but I don’t see how she could have turned the lid if there was so much pressure. Any comments?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: burning; pressurecooker
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To: Stanwood_Dave

I’ve never done that with the old fashioned coffee boiler. Will try and remember to test it.


41 posted on 11/17/2018 11:53:45 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Calvin Locke

A glass one? That’s awesome.

One of the few things that I actually collect are Corningware percolators. I thought they would go up in value, but they don’t. I hand them out as housewarming gifts.

I have 12 at the moment.


42 posted on 11/17/2018 5:00:07 PM PST by Celerity
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To: lee martell

Had a mother in law telling me about an attempt to make cooked applesauce in a pressure cooker. She said that during the cooking process the relief valve blew out, (probably sauce residue blocked the main valve) and the entire kitchen ceiling, and then the floor, was coated with applesauce. Said it was even worse than the recounting.


43 posted on 11/17/2018 5:06:06 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: An American in Turkiye

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.


44 posted on 11/17/2018 5:12:49 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Pure Country
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 used to use a PS quite regularly, and once I was cooking a pot of soybeans, and had too much in it. And the skins of the soybeans plugged up the release tub that made the weight jiggle (that meant you had the right temp).

Well, as a result the safety blew, not very explosively, but it coated the ceiling with soybean skins

However, running cool water over the pot is a old safe way of making sure all pressure is gone.

45 posted on 11/17/2018 5:22:59 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Celerity
*Everybody* had the Pyrex percolator.

At least until Joe DiMaggio started hawking Mr. Coffee.

I've been using a French Press as of late.

46 posted on 11/17/2018 6:52:11 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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