Re: pressure cookers was Re: Need recommendations on security

On 12.05.2006 12:25, Ellen wrote:

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> For the life of me, I can't figure out why I didn't buy one of these years 
> ago -- I guess some memory of hearing people talk about having the old 
> fashioned ones "blow their gaskets" all over the kitchen. The new models 
> seem to be easier to deal with. I vaguely remembered my mom having one when 
> I was very young and then she stopped  using it and so I finally got around 
> to asking her a few months ago why she stopped.  She said that the jiggle 
> thing broke or something and she couldn't afford to buy a new one at that 
> time and then somehow never got around to it and still regrets that she 
> never did :-)
> 
> 
> Ellen

>From very deep down in Cajun Country ... "People actually COOK with
those things?" 8-)