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?
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.
I bet this is what happened. Operator error. It takes a while for the electric element to cool down so it was still producing heat when she closed the valve so it built up pressure again but not quite enough to prevent her from turning the lid to take it off.
She probably lied.
I’m not sure of this,but I think sudden release of pressure,even if it is small,can cause rapid boiling & some pressure buildup....possibly enough to scald someone.
There are pictures of her burns.
Whatever, accidents can happen. Most likely, she didn’t follow manufacturer’s instructions. She was supposedly using an electric one.
I’ve only used those old ones with the weights on top. No way can those lids be removed until the pressure has gone down.
I find it funny that you would only trust Instant Pot. Pressure cookers have been around for 100 years and took off after the 1939 World’s Fair. Instant Pot is the newcomer and is a Chinese-designed product. This shows how far Chinese products have come!
In 2008, Robert Wang, Yi Quin, and one other friend, all former employees of Nortel in Ottawa, Canada, started working on designs for the Instant Pot. Wang is credited as the inventor of the Instant Pot. Wang and four partners founded Double Insight Inc in 2009. Instant Pots are manufactured by the Midea Group in GuangDong, China.
Wang has a PhD in computer science with a specialty in artificial intelligence. Rather amazing going from a PhD in CS and AI to telecommunications to founding a successful pressure cooker company! That’s a great story right there.
I have been using pressure cookers all of my life. I love them. They take a tiny bit of common sense. I actually had the exact Electric Presto models shown in the picture, but the nonstick finish started flaking off the very first time I used it. So I took it back. Presto has been around a lot longer than Instant Pot. I have had one of their uncoated completely manual aluminum models for decades.
I purchased a larger automatic electric models from Costco a couple of years ago; it is also not an Instant Pot. It has been fine and is almost foolproof as well. I think that the problem with automatic units, if you want to call it a problem, is that they kind of “insulate” one from the actual process that is taking place.
I am extremely skeptical of the sequence of events told by the unfortunate lady. The identical Presto electric pressure cooker that I owned had both the blue pressure indicator that she mentioned, a pressure relief valve, and a lock that if you had screwed the top all the way on, would not allow you to take it off until the pressure was released. She had to do several things wrong to get hot soup all over herself.
It is impossible to make anything completely idiot proof. How many people have managed to take the door off their microwave, tape the safety switch down, turn it on and then stick their head inside the open compartment to make sure it was actually working? We will probably never know.
It looks like the autocorrect feature on my tablet is acting up again. Sorry.
Love me some pressure-cooked beans, yum...
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.
“Next time you fly, try to open the exit door in flight. Don’t work like that.”
They let you do that now?
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