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.
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
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.
He said he was trying to further close it, not open it while hot.
But there was no pressure control. If he did seal it further, it would have been a bigger bomb eventually.