The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

littlemoney

MingVase said:

I'd quite happily use a pot on a griddle over a wee fire Annie. I won't have a pressure cooker in the house though, not since mine blew up and splattered the ceiling with lamb gravy..

 I have been using a pressure cooker for over 50 years and so far not had one explode. Fingers crossed I haven't put a hex on things.

mothernerd

MingVase said:

I'd quite happily use a pot on a griddle over a wee fire Annie. I won't have a pressure cooker in the house though, not since mine blew up and splattered the ceiling with lamb gravy..

My grandma was doing red cabbage. Mum wasn't impressed as she'd just decorated the kitchen in pale yellow (first time it had been done since grandad died).

annieb64

My mother's pressure cooker blew up when she was cooking beetroot. 

MingVase

I think beetroot's probly worse than lamb gravy, on a kitchen ceiling..

mothernerd

Or red cabbage on pale yellow?

thriftwizard

My mother blew ours up making porridge, when I was small. I have no idea at all why she even thought of making porridge in a pressure cooker, never mind wandering off to church whilst it was cooking on the "slow" plate of the Rayburn. (Told you she hates cooking!) There were shards of metal embedded in the ceiling, the kitchen window was smashed and the washing, hanging on an airer over the Rayburn, was shredded & everything was very, very sticky. You have no idea how powerful an adhesive oats make...

littlemoney

Perhaps I am missing something, but what is it that people do which makes pressure cookers exploded.

srn

annieb64 said:

The pump for our boiler packed up on the morning  of Christmas  eve last year fusing all the electrics  downstairs.  We called out Homecare who sent an electrician but said we would have to have a gas engineer  for the pump. It was finally fixed at 11 p.m

I can remember an old man in the village where I grew up who still cooked all his food in one pot on a grid over the fire. This would have been in the late 1960s. 

I had two maiden aunts who lived together in a rented property, which had no bathroom, no indoor toilet and no hot running water until the last aunt died in early 1990's.  Shocking in relatively recent times.  They had a coal fire, always lit, with a kettle of water at the front of it for their hot water.

wondercollie

littlemoney said:

Perhaps I am missing something, but what is it that people do which makes pressure cookers exploded.

I don't remember.   I just remember being warned about them exploding in Home Ec classes 40 years ago.

Scared me out of ever wanting one.  I won't even can because of my fear of the water bath process and scalding myself.

Si_Clist

littlemoney said:

Perhaps I am missing something, but what is it that people do which makes pressure cookers exploded.

It's beyond me too.  Despite it still being legal to sell them and despite people still buying them, I grew up "knowing" that pressure cookers were the domestic version of fragmentation grenades,  However, 40 years ago The Lady Wife and I discovered that neither of us actually knew anybody who'd had one blow up.  In fact, we knew several people who swore by them, so we threw all caution to the wind and bought one.  And it still hasn't exploded.

If we were fool enough to not put the lid on properly, it wouldn't pressurise, therefore it couldn't explode.  If we did put the lid on properly but then left it on full heat on the stove, once it got to maximum pressure it would emit a very loud, piercing whistle by way of alarm.  If we didn't respond to that by turning the heat down, it would eventually blow the safety valve in the lid.  What happened next would probably depend on the contents, but the cause would be our stupidity - not a fault of the pressure cooker.