I bought this Presto 21qt cooker-canner pressure cooker when I was still in high school! Specifically back then to sterilize Mason jars full of cooked rye grains to attempt to start a "mushroom" farm! Never got any fruiting bodies, just Mason jars full of myecelical growth!! :-( Oh well, at least I have a really good and really BIG pot to cook stuff in, like the batch of "baked" beans I just made, which is when I decided to finally replace the ever shrinking original gasket!! Which just came in the USPS mail, and it was no UNlike the old dried out one I had, I didn't know at first if I could fit it in the lid's groove for the gasket!

But the new gasket fit fine!! :-) The new gasket will probably outlive ME! :-)

John Kuthe...