# Tell Me About Pressure Cookers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-pressure-cookers/392356>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 15, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-pressure-cookers/392356 "2007-02-15T16:47:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-pressure-cookers/392356/41 "2007-02-24T01:35:54Z")

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the head of my bed is directly over the kitchen stove. (i’m sure this is not a feng shui good thing) one morning mum was doing something (i’m not sure what) with lentils and a pressure cooker.

ka-blam!!!

i nearly had to be scraped off the ceiling of my room… rather like the lentils one floor down. i went from sound sleep to kitchen doorway in less than a second.

thankfully i wasn’t home for the other mishaps, but i still see evidence of them in the kitchen. they were smaller in scope than the early morning incident. mostly the type kanicbird had without the burns.

i can memory-hear the dancing weight as i write this.

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**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-pressure-cookers/392356/42 "2007-02-24T15:27:29Z")

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::Update:: Seems that people don’t use a pressure canner very often anymore. As of today I have 2 huge pressure canners, both were given to me! I only made 2 phone calls to friends looking for one and I ended up with 2!

I’m doing the happy pressure canner dance!

Carrie

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**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-pressure-cookers/392356/43 "2007-02-24T15:36:31Z")

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We’ve boiling potatoes via pressure cooker for so long, we have no idea how long to boil them the old-fashioned way.

And, as others have pointed out, cheap cuts of meat come out fork tender.

I’ve been pressure cooking since 1971. Turned the present wife onto it in 1987. Never had food on the ceiling. The worst incident was having the weight fall off between the stove and the sink, but that was just steam out of a small and very avoidable vent pipe so no harm done.

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