Went to the emergency room yesterday after the InstaPot blew up on me. Just 1st degree burns and some awesome drugs. Bandages off today, a little tender but not bad.
Burns are my belly and my arm wrist to elbow including my thumb.
Totally worth the $250 copay going in!
PS: My wife was making soup and said the lid was steaming from the sides a bit. The pressure release valve wasn’t releasing pressure in either position and the lock plunger wasn’t doing anything. I figured no pressure so I’d just tighten it right and boom. Scary for a bit and hurt like hell for an hour. Lucky me for sure!
All I kept thinking is my granddaughter would have been standing there if she was over. So we’re getting rid of the pressure cooker. The risk isn’t with the convenience.
I just put my pressure cooker on the back deck when I use it. No worries if it blows up back there.
That almost seems worse …… at least on the stove you are off to the side but now I’m picturing leaning down to pick it up and getting a face full of steel lid with a geyser of superheated split pea soup
Nah, I have installed a counter outside. It was originally for my wok burner, but has seen plenty of other uses.
Until you are walking up to it when it goes off.