Pressure Cooker accident?

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[Texas Fossil]

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

[Celerity]

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.

[KC Burke]

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.

[daniel1212]

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.

[daniel1212]

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.

[Calvin Locke]

*Everybody* had the Pyrex percolator.

At least until Joe DiMaggio started hawking Mr. Coffee.

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