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Pressure cooker explosions.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...916#post167853
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...989#post133917
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...479#post117039

I'm glad my pressure cooker / canner has a lock that makes it quite impossible to open the lid, built into the pressure release valve is some kind of secondary latch that will not under any circumstances release with the slightest amount of pressure inside.

Yes Frank, My canner has a secondary lock as well, but it's between my ears.

Most pressure cookers have a locking mechanism you can bypass, if you work at it hard enough. I have both older and modern ones, and a determined person could probably open any of them while under at least some pressure. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity and determination.

Neither of these are explosions - they are idiots opening them before the pressure returned to normal atmo. The first one had to really work at it.

Neil

My pressure cooker is the original design with an internal lid which is impossible to remove un till zero pressure, do not know why this design was never changed.

People are opening these pressure cookers without releasing the pressure? Or the release is blocked because they overfill the pot? There have been safety locks and safety valves for nearly 50 years. But if you don't use them, well this happens. That can be some terrible burns. Especially the second lady and the first older man.

That second one had to hurt with all that scalding water on the woman's legs not to mention a chin side landing.

The snowflakes of today should be thankful for the microwave oven.

Now comes the time for an incriminating admission, I have actually had a pressure cooker explode, but it did not release it's lid. The explosion occurred within the pot because it had chicken bones,fat, etc which I was boiling down for stock. It was on the BBQ outside, and I forgot about it, it got so hot that the fat turned into vapour. I can only presume that some oxygen must have still been inside because it did an internal burp and destroyed the lid and seriously bent the lugs it locks down on. When I remembered it, it was still happily cooking away, totally black and bent to the dunny, AND OUTSIDE.

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.
: - )