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Little Malice

One time on Usenet, (TammyM) said:
> On 2 Oct 2006 16:15:30 -0700, "merryb" > wrote:

> >As I read yall's postings, pressure cookers keep coming up in the
> >topics. I have never used one- when I was younger, I remember hearing
> >about how they can explode. Is that something of concern, or is that
> >just the older ones, or what? It sounds like many of you use them, and
> >I would like to hear what you have to say. Thanks!

> If you have one of the old style PCs (like I do), it's important to
> make sure that the stem is not clogged. I use a pipe cleaner for this
> purpose, having long since lost the little brush gizmo that came with
> the PC. Mine did "explode" once -- the safety valve popped, scared
> the beejeezus and at least two lives out of my cat, Norman Bates, and
> vesuviused black bean juice all over my white ceiling. I deduced that
> it did so because someone (pointing finger at self) neglected to clean
> the stem. I've become right religious about doing so ever since.
> Norman is pleased. The ceiling still has faint BB juice stains.

Heh!! Great story, Tammy. Reminds of the two, not one but two! times
I let a hard cooked egg on the stove run out of water, and came
running to a loud "pop" that indicated I needed to mop the ceiling.
In that house, the computer room was way in the back, and I didn't
have a portable timer -- once was actually funny, the second time was
just stoopid.

Of course now I know (thanks to Nancy) that you don't have to boil
an egg to hard cook it. AAMOF, an egg salad sandwich sounds like a
nice lunch...

--
"Little Malice" is Jani in WA
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~