SC - Dangers of pressure cookers

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

I don't know everything about anything, but I'm betting that it wasn't the 
pressure that blew the cooker alone, but the plunging into a sink of cold 
water. It was said it was a big pressure cooker. My bet is metal stress from 
the sudden temperature change caused a small split, which no doubt got bigger 
REAL fast from the pressure behind it. I too have cooled down our home sized 
pressure cooker lots of times using cool water (albeit gingerly), to no ill 
effect I can see.

Corwyn

In a message dated 4/20/2000 9:09:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mermayde at juno.com writes:

> Nope, the instruction book specifically states that running cool water
>  over the pot will help bring the pressure down faster.  I don't have time
>  to get the book out right now, but I just read it this week, and wondered
>  about that very method.