pressure cooker

Sure, and let's redesign iron pipes so the end caps don't screw on properly. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Prolly not -- it has to have a fairly high rupture strength to do it's job, and it's that rupture strength that's going to make for good shrapnel. Even if you did something like design it with engineered blow- outs, a bit of work with a dremel tool or even a chisel could turn it back into a great big grenade. So maybe a bit less useful, but not much.

And, there's a hell of a lot of old pressure cookers out there. Do you really want a government-mandated drive to have people come to your house and take your pressure cooker away, in return for enriching some offshore factory owners?

Aren't they mainly used for coating the kitchen ceiling in lentil soup?

Microwaves are just so much more convenient today.

That protects people from actually eating lentil soup.

I'm not doing a pot roast or stew in the microwave.

George h.

Turns out it was a rice cooker.

But it _looks_ like a pressure cooker. So it must be dangerous.

I don't think a pressure cooker has to be overly strong to hold the 15 psi most work at. I expect they are greatly over designed so that if the pressure valve is stuck they won't blow so readily.

Is that necessary? Look at this one, it reminds me of deep sea diving gear!

And what is the tensile strength of steel?

I'm not going to use a pressure cooker, either.

Trump will ban all pressure cookers from entering the country.

It's time for a NPCA (National Pressure Cooker Association) to protect the right to own a pressure cooker.

A36 is 58000 to 80000 psi. But that is ultimate strength. Not yield strength. And one should probably use a sifety factor of about 5. So one should use about 7000.

Dan

Grasshopper, lentils cook quickly. No need for preshahcookah.

Ha! Lentil soup is great. (I had some some in the microwave when you wrote that!)

Cheers, James Arthur

No, only Syrian pressure cookers. :-)

Hillary would ban pressure cookers, or at least require registration, a training certificate, and a background check.

Hillary believes Americans have no individual right to own a pressure cooker (or a pencil--you can put out an eye with those things), and will appoint a Supreme Court that agrees. (After all, the Constitution doesn't mention a right to own pressure cookers, and it was something the Founders of the country clearly could not have anticipated.)

Cheers, James Arthur

I rarely agree with James Arthur about anything, but I do share his enthusiasm for lentil soup - or at for least some recipes.

will

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Probably not. Nobody has ever bothered with anything like that, and Hillary Clinton isn't exactly an innovator.

ker

I think James Arthur is animating his cartoon version of Bernie Sanders, ra ther than Hillary Clinton, and rather forgetting that even Bernie Sanders i s a modern socialist who is perfectly happy to let the free market do what it does well - sell pencils to people who want them - and only intervenes i n areas where the free market doesn't work too well - health care and educa tion do come to mind.

The free market can degenerate into cartels and monopolies, and one needs t o regulate it closely enough to prevent this. It works badly in "natural mo nopolies" - remember ENRON - and for stuff like education where the product and the customer interact in unpredictable ways. Trump University isn't an example of that particular problem - it was just a con trick.

No need to be charitable about Trump - he's got his own charitable foundati on, and it's charitable to him on a scale that makes any contribution from the rest of us quite unnecessary, as well as inappropriate.

James and his friend gave us one for the cabin in the mountains, after an unfortunate batch of mashed potatoes. It's useful at 6400 feet, probably more like necessary at 12,000.