Aldi pressure cooker Kidnapped my chicken!

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Rotor

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itsallinthemind

Rotor wrote: »

Where? where ? you don't say where

Main site > MoneySavingExpert.com Forums > Home & Play > In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving > Aldi pressure cooker Kidnapped my chicken!

Although you can still click on the link in the Food section, so I guess that's why board guides do not say?

Magnolia

I really need to know if the chicken is still holding on to the inside of the lid!

I have this mental image of a very resolute chicken with its legs spread wide somehow stopping the lid from turning!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

itsallinthemind

Magnolia wrote: »

I really need to know if the chicken is still holding on to the inside of the lid!

I have this mental image of a very resolute chicken with its legs spread wide somehow stopping the lid from turning!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

I have never quite felt this urge to know the outcome of a thread.
I've checked it more times than my reflection today :rotfl:

artha

itsallinthemind wrote: »

I have never quite felt this urge to know the outcome of a thread.
I've checked it more times than my reflection today :rotfl:

I think I'm also hooked

omen666

come on what happened

[Deleted User]

Hi,

mmm, so don't count your chickens until you get the lid off, :rotfl:

This was said by Aesop, about 570 B.C.

The Story behind It: This saying occurs in the fable "The Milkmaid and Her Pail." Patty, a farmer's daughter, is daydreaming as she walks to town with a pail of milk balanced on her head. Her thoughts: "The milk in this pail will provide me with cream, which I will make into butter, which I will sell in the market, and buy a dozen eggs, which will hatch into chickens, which will lay more eggs, and soon I shall have a large poultry yard. I'll sell some of the fowls and buy myself a handsome new gown and go to the fair, and when the young fellows try to make love to me, I'll toss my head and pass them by." At that moment, Patty tossed her head and lost the pailful of milk. Her mother admonished, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."

POPPYOSCAR

I don't know the answer,but I just love the title!!!

Dread

Dear all,

well I tried everything everyone suggested although I resisted hitting it with a pin hammer as someone suggested as I didn't want to take the cooker back with evidence of forced entry.

The main problem with the cooker is that its not the usual twist lock which has overlapping flanges on the lid and pot that engage as you turn the lid; no, I had to go and buy a pressure cooker that has two buttons on the lid that engage and disengage a mechanical clamping system. One puts the lid on with the clamp disengaged and then press the button to engage what I can only describe as 2 semi circles of steel that hold the lid and pot firmly together; in this case a little too firmly. When I pressed the button to disengage it this time, the button didn't depress fully (although I did), the clamps moved about a quarter of what they should thereby frustrating any attempt to lift the lid off. I tried prising the clamps open with a screwdriver but didn't want to leave any evidence of tampering. All this was done after the pot was stone cold with all the pressure released. Link to a picture of the cooker.....weird! http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_13634.htm

I finally gave up and took the pot complete with locked lid, cooked chicken and valuable stock back to Aldi's. In their usual abrupt manner the assistant asked me if I had the receipt, of course I did, I had made sure I kept it as the cooker was such an unusual design. The manager didn't have a problem giving me the money back for the cooker but I was really pi**ed off when he refused to give me a chicken to replace the one his damn cooker was holding hostage!

The conclusion to the story is I left the shop fizzing, I have spent thousands of pounds in Aldi's over the last ten years or so, and for the sake of a £3 chicken they have lost my business. These guys have a lot to learn about customer service.

However, revenge is always a dish best served cold, in a very short time that chicken will begin to stink and there will be nothing they can do about it as the manufacturers won't accept a damaged cooker back so the staff can't force the lid off and the management will demand the cooker be returned to the manufacturers for a refund.

But my wife did laugh when I told her I raised cain when they refused to recompense me for the chicken..........typical Sweaty Sock to make a fuss over that!

Thanks for all your suggestions and help folks, and I hope you all get to read the conclusion.