Pressure cooker explosions - GIFs

[CharlesWaugh]

Back in college, my roommate was making pea soup. Well, we had a pressure cooker, so he put the peas and water in there to cook 'em.
The water boiled, the peas softened up, and turned into a goo that boiled and splattered insdide the pressure cooker until that pea goo covered the steam outlet hole.
Pressure built up . . . and up . . . and up . . .
And then the safety-release plug popped out and shot a stream of pea goo straight up to the ceiling which then ricocheted all around off the ceiling onto darm near everything.
The sound was impressive!
The mess was impressive.
The look on his face was impressive.
I bet I suddenly decided to be 'late to class!' so I had to bail out . . leaving him the mess to mop up.
: - )