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.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    My dad worked for a company that made beef flavors and a reactor blew up and took out a 20-foot cinderblock wall. The reactor in this story is a very large pressure cooker and the cause of the explosion was a clogged pressure valve. The guy in the room was okay all things considered. Safety gear kept him safe. The whole place smelled like exploded meat for a long time.

    spoiler

    I dont want to wake the old man up to confirm but I think the guy in the room with the reactor left an outline on the floor amongst the spatter. Not unlike the acquaintance of Mr. Bean who went back in the apartment for his hat as Mr. Bean was painting his apartment with a gallon of paint and a firecracker.

    Anyways glad you’re OK and I hope that soup smelled good enough to paint your walls with.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Wow, that’s a wild story I’m glad to know!

      And when we came back from the emergency room the smell was delightful and just made me want soup. Some friends made us replacement soup and brought it over yesterday!