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.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      131·
      1 month ago

      No, if the safety systems can fail like that for any reason it is the fault of the pressure cooker. Unless he intentionally broke the safety systems, or one of the systems was already known to be faulty and he continued to use it. It can never be acceptable for safety systems to fail.

      • 4am@lemmy.zip
        104·
        1 month ago

        Safe procedure is to let the pressure cooker cool down before trying to open it. Especially if the “release valve wasn’t working in any position”.

        1000% on the user here

        • bluGill@fedia.io
          5·
          1 month ago

          The point of safety is humans are not perfect. They need to prevent our stupidity in cases where we are likely to be stupid. This has long been known as one of those situations where people don’t realize the danger and so we need to force the correct procedure. You cannot document/warn about an issue unless you can’t do better in other ways.

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
            52·
            1 month ago

            But there was no pressure control. If he did seal it further, it would have been a bigger bomb eventually.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 month ago

      A little of both, really. It shouldn’t have steam coming out of the sides and the release valves should release. I have one. It doesn’t seal well unless I push down on the lid for a bit. The float valve never seems to work properly.

      That said, if I saw steam coming out of the sides I would just unplug it and step away.