11-03-2024, 07:19 PM
A loud BANG in your pressure cooker is not what you want to hear. Today I heard that sound. Fortunately, I was just canning water (LOL...I know). I was trying out a new canner, an All American pressure cooker which I'd cheaped out on all my life. They're not cheap, BUT...I figured I better try it out and figure out what I'm doing.
Originally I was going to do green beans (easy stuff), but I thought I'd just test this thing out first. (side note) When you bolt this puppy down, it makes some serious steam! Holy cow! It even looks skeery on the stove! I pressured this badboy up with a quart of hot water inside just to test. About 15 minutes into the steam, and before I got to pressure I heard this really loud..BANG!. I was out in the garage when this happened. The 15 lb jiggler hadn't even moved at this point, but...BANG!. I figured the damn pot was gonna' blow up the joint; had the wife get the valuables and dogs (the ones we like anyway), and head for the hotel. Damn joint was goin' sky high, near as I could tell.
I'll make this story short(er), (ala, TLDR style), and then fill in the blanks later.
TLDR version - No, the damn thing didn't blow up and fuck the whole joint up. I was worried about that though. It did, however, blow up the jar inside, a quart jar filled with hot water just as a test. The freeking jar blew like a grenade inside that pot. Dammit! BUT, I didn't really know what happened...it just didn't sound good.
Well, 45 minutes later I cooled the pot down enough to open it (and it took a while). Glass jar exploded inside the pot. Hmmm...lesson learnd. Glad I didn't have any food in there, or multiple jars in there, because that jar exploding would have exploded all the other jars.
Live and learn I guess.
Originally I was going to do green beans (easy stuff), but I thought I'd just test this thing out first. (side note) When you bolt this puppy down, it makes some serious steam! Holy cow! It even looks skeery on the stove! I pressured this badboy up with a quart of hot water inside just to test. About 15 minutes into the steam, and before I got to pressure I heard this really loud..BANG!. I was out in the garage when this happened. The 15 lb jiggler hadn't even moved at this point, but...BANG!. I figured the damn pot was gonna' blow up the joint; had the wife get the valuables and dogs (the ones we like anyway), and head for the hotel. Damn joint was goin' sky high, near as I could tell.
I'll make this story short(er), (ala, TLDR style), and then fill in the blanks later.
TLDR version - No, the damn thing didn't blow up and fuck the whole joint up. I was worried about that though. It did, however, blow up the jar inside, a quart jar filled with hot water just as a test. The freeking jar blew like a grenade inside that pot. Dammit! BUT, I didn't really know what happened...it just didn't sound good.
Well, 45 minutes later I cooled the pot down enough to open it (and it took a while). Glass jar exploded inside the pot. Hmmm...lesson learnd. Glad I didn't have any food in there, or multiple jars in there, because that jar exploding would have exploded all the other jars.
Live and learn I guess.