Pressure cooker always looks too much like a stove based bomb for me to ever be truly happy to use one. Stayed with a Spanish family where one was in almost daily use, always felt nervous in the kitchen when there was one on the go...
Nothing serious in my house since 1962. Some melted safety plugs, a released gasket, all caused by less water than needed, or a clogged vent where the weight is put, human eror really.
Nearly daily use.
Maid in Hyderabad got stitches is scalp after weight flew off and bouced off the cieling, back of head.
Not at my uncle's house, some other place ...she was a bit scared about them afterwards.
You can damage yourself with many common things, this is to be borne in mind, always respect and use equipment within its limits.
Nearly daily use.
Maid in Hyderabad got stitches is scalp after weight flew off and bouced off the cieling, back of head.
Not at my uncle's house, some other place ...she was a bit scared about them afterwards.
You can damage yourself with many common things, this is to be borne in mind, always respect and use equipment within its limits.
Cal,
Sacrilegious! OMG! Not omg! Never lower case G! You probably don’t want to spend eternity eating cold canned beans. 😉
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Sacrilegious! OMG! Not omg! Never lower case G! You probably don’t want to spend eternity eating cold canned beans. 😉
ES
Kitchen hazards. A couple of decades back, we had guests coming round for Sunday lunch. Had a hob that was already in the house when we'd moved in a couple of months earlier. Electric, that heated using IR. Neither of us liked it, but it was early days and we'd not had time to replace it. Brigitte had put stuff on the hob and left the kitchen. Something happened to the hob and it melted the aluminium layer between the stainless steel and copper of the saucepan. Brigitte went back into the kitchen which was full of thick white smoke down to about worktop height, she lifted the pan and molten aluminium ran off the hob and splashed around her feet leaving them untouched (she was wearing sandals!!!) but starting small fires in the vinyl flooring all round her. The following day I found small pellets of aluminium up to 1m50 from the hob. We had a functioning and recently tested smoke alarm in the kitchen; it remained silent throughout. We were later told it was the wrong kind of smoke, particles too big, too small or wrong shape... We got a different type of alarm.
I found this below the broken glass surface of the hob, it appeared to be the majority of the aluminium from the pan and is, roughly 35cm long and has been serving as a wall decoration and reminder since that day...
I found this below the broken glass surface of the hob, it appeared to be the majority of the aluminium from the pan and is, roughly 35cm long and has been serving as a wall decoration and reminder since that day...
Possibly shorted thermostat, and no thermal fuse...
Dangerous, you were lucky.
Our pressure cookers have a vent plug with a slug of low temperature melting point alloy, it serves as a back up to the weight / whistle.
Some models have a gasket release system as well, that is similar in function.
Most people use gas, rarely coal or wood.
But you must bear in mind the limitations of the device...
Dangerous, you were lucky.
Our pressure cookers have a vent plug with a slug of low temperature melting point alloy, it serves as a back up to the weight / whistle.
Some models have a gasket release system as well, that is similar in function.
Most people use gas, rarely coal or wood.
But you must bear in mind the limitations of the device...
I love Spam.
Try the Portuguese Sausage version.
Comes in a can.
Canned beans and Spam.
Godd enough for Vikings.
Good enough for me.
Then you got Hormel Chili con Carne ( no beans ).... Yum!
Microwave technology man!
Hob, the thing you put saucepans, frying pans etc. on to cook with in the UK
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Spam in a can. Wasn't that how Chuck Yeager described the Mercury programme astronauts?
The beauty of canning food is that the process doesn't require preservatives..... It's not exactly rocket surgery.🙄
Tony, at least three more spankings are in order.
gawd should never be capitalized Ed.
My brother had one one those happen with an aluminum steamer. Imagine being so distracted by what he was doing on the computer that not only was the water gone, the bottom of the ban was gone.
I hope she was worth it.
^ @Cal Weldon
You KNOW this was coming... after all, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...
I suppose I shouldn't say I buy my beans in cans.... white, great northern, black, pinto, fava, garbanzo, lentils.. and different brands too!
You KNOW this was coming... after all, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...
I suppose I shouldn't say I buy my beans in cans.... white, great northern, black, pinto, fava, garbanzo, lentils.. and different brands too!
says who?
45 min hot soak and 45 minutes at pressure does chick peas fine. Kala Chana needs a little longer.
I cook chopped onions and garlic in butter over a medium heat until lightly golden, add turmeric to make it aromatic.... then add basmati rice to coat it... a couple of minutes. add water with chicken bouillon.... bring to a boil, set it to very low, simmer, covered for 22 minutes.
Sometimes when it's done, I open it quickly and throw in a cup of frozen peas, cover again and let is sit until we're ready to serve it.
With a little bit of chicken or meat... and perhaps some stir fried canned spam.... it's a real nice dinner.
Sometimes when it's done, I open it quickly and throw in a cup of frozen peas, cover again and let is sit until we're ready to serve it.
With a little bit of chicken or meat... and perhaps some stir fried canned spam.... it's a real nice dinner.
I suppose I shouldn't tell you I buy those frozen veggies... You know, those that have the nice cubed carrots, nicely cut little green beans and peas... and don't forget the frozen hash browns and potatoes.
It's a guilty pleasure... take them frozen veggies, add butter and salt, microwave and then serve on a nice plate for Thanksgiving dinner.
We make the brown sauce ( don't call it gravy ) from scratch... and then we microwave the veggies out of a plastic bag from the freezer.
There's a shelf in my pantry designed to outlast the end result of the Big One...
But with my luck, after the house comes tumbling down and I dig out the canned goods, the can opener and -worse- the wine bottle opener will have been lost in the rubble.
However, I have some standards... no Bose chez moi.
It's a guilty pleasure... take them frozen veggies, add butter and salt, microwave and then serve on a nice plate for Thanksgiving dinner.
We make the brown sauce ( don't call it gravy ) from scratch... and then we microwave the veggies out of a plastic bag from the freezer.
There's a shelf in my pantry designed to outlast the end result of the Big One...
But with my luck, after the house comes tumbling down and I dig out the canned goods, the can opener and -worse- the wine bottle opener will have been lost in the rubble.
However, I have some standards... no Bose chez moi.