SC - Dangers of pressure cookers
CorwynWdwd at aol.com
CorwynWdwd at aol.com
Thu Apr 20 07:45:52 PDT 2000
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.
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